Comments on: I can tell without looking at the clock that it’s Monday already http://prepoceros.com/2006/04/24/i-can-tell-without-looking-at-the-clock-that-its-monday-already/ Horn o'plenty. A cornucopia, if you will. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:34:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Natalie http://prepoceros.com/2006/04/24/i-can-tell-without-looking-at-the-clock-that-its-monday-already/#comment-226 Natalie Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:07:33 +0000 http://prepoceros.com/2006/04/24/i-can-tell-without-looking-at-the-clock-that-its-monday-already/#comment-226 As y'all have pointed out, I don't think faith is either necessary or sufficient for living without a constant fear of death, but I do think it helps. Tremendously. An afterlife would be *great*. This might sound silly, but one of the biggest reasons I'm afraid to die is that I'll miss out on the future. I won't get to see what happens in 2100, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. Distraction is probably the best thing for it. I'm in a bit of a slump about the whole going-to-school and getting-stuff-done thing right now, so I have lots of time to think. Yick. As y’all have pointed out, I don’t think faith is either necessary or sufficient for living without a constant fear of death, but I do think it helps. Tremendously. An afterlife would be *great*. This might sound silly, but one of the biggest reasons I’m afraid to die is that I’ll miss out on the future. I won’t get to see what happens in 2100, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about it.

Distraction is probably the best thing for it. I’m in a bit of a slump about the whole going-to-school and getting-stuff-done thing right now, so I have lots of time to think. Yick.

]]> By: Shannon http://prepoceros.com/2006/04/24/i-can-tell-without-looking-at-the-clock-that-its-monday-already/#comment-225 Shannon Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:51:30 +0000 http://prepoceros.com/2006/04/24/i-can-tell-without-looking-at-the-clock-that-its-monday-already/#comment-225 About grad school: I think every school essentially has a minimum GPA requirement. I usually found it hard to actually find this information though. Looking back, I think it would have been good to e-mail the admissions people in the beginning and just ask a lot of questions (deadlines, fees, forms, addresses, requirements, etc). About death: I cannot say that I really worry about my own death, but I do worry about my mother. I make her IM me every night just so that I know she is okay. I do not know why I do not worry about it. Part of it may be that I am a Christian (not a specific type because my family never went to church ... I just believe what I believe). Part of it may be that I don't think of it as something that I have control of, so I don't see the point in worrying. Part of it may be that I have a lot of other, more immediate things to worry about and distract myself with. About grad school: I think every school essentially has a minimum GPA requirement. I usually found it hard to actually find this information though. Looking back, I think it would have been good to e-mail the admissions people in the beginning and just ask a lot of questions (deadlines, fees, forms, addresses, requirements, etc).

About death: I cannot say that I really worry about my own death, but I do worry about my mother. I make her IM me every night just so that I know she is okay. I do not know why I do not worry about it. Part of it may be that I am a Christian (not a specific type because my family never went to church … I just believe what I believe). Part of it may be that I don’t think of it as something that I have control of, so I don’t see the point in worrying. Part of it may be that I have a lot of other, more immediate things to worry about and distract myself with.

]]> By: Jay http://prepoceros.com/2006/04/24/i-can-tell-without-looking-at-the-clock-that-its-monday-already/#comment-224 Jay Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:59:00 +0000 http://prepoceros.com/2006/04/24/i-can-tell-without-looking-at-the-clock-that-its-monday-already/#comment-224 random thoughts and comments on your death obsession follows... you had speculated in a much earlier post that perhaps some of the meaninglessness you feel around/various obsessions with dying/mortality etc come from a lack of a faith tradition, and then you dismissed it. not that you necessarilly have to have any kind of faith background, b/c certainly there are lots of agnostics and such that get thru life just fine without this problem, and then there are Jews, who, to my limited understanding, have no official theology of an afterlife. They believe in God, go to organized services, draw social and legal traditions out of their scriptures, and then believe that you die, and well, that's it, and they get thru life fine... so... *ramble ramble ramble in short i dont think the lack of any kind of faith life is dispositive of the issue at hand. folks that do the church thing fear death just as much, just maybe not so much when they're young, and really more so when they age to a point where it does become an issue of , oh, well, yeah, some day i guess im gonna die. but my grandmother went to mass every day, and i assure you in the last two years of her life she certainly thought about and was afraid of what was after, and that's purely human. in short i have no idea quite what you'll need to do to address it. I mean, I can tell you I dont give it a lot of thought (not in the reckless "i am invincible" thought process of a teen); just that I'm 23 and I don't expect to have the issue come up for another 60 or 70 years. I also have law to keep me busy, so i dunno.. i ramble, digress, ... blah. sorry, not much help :-/ random thoughts and comments on your death obsession follows…

you had speculated in a much earlier post that perhaps some of the meaninglessness you feel around/various obsessions with dying/mortality etc come from a lack of a faith tradition, and then you dismissed it.

not that you necessarilly have to have any kind of faith background, b/c certainly there are lots of agnostics and such that get thru life just fine without this problem, and then there are Jews, who, to my limited understanding, have no official theology of an afterlife. They believe in God, go to organized services, draw social and legal traditions out of their scriptures, and then believe that you die, and well, that’s it, and they get thru life fine… so… *ramble ramble ramble in short i dont think the lack of any kind of faith life is dispositive of the issue at hand. folks that do the church thing fear death just as much, just maybe not so much when they’re young, and really more so when they age to a point where it does become an issue of , oh, well, yeah, some day i guess im gonna die. but my grandmother went to mass every day, and i assure you in the last two years of her life she certainly thought about and was afraid of what was after, and that’s purely human.

in short i have no idea quite what you’ll need to do to address it. I mean, I can tell you I dont give it a lot of thought (not in the reckless “i am invincible” thought process of a teen); just that I’m 23 and I don’t expect to have the issue come up for another 60 or 70 years. I also have law to keep me busy, so i dunno.. i ramble, digress, … blah. sorry, not much help :-/

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