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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 4098732" data-attributes="member: 198">Gah! Are you trying to make Rackhir shoot me in the face?*phew*Well, it is a personal judgement, but that's okay. I figure everyone has a right to make their own personal judgements.  My sister would tell you I do have one. It's being me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />For me, being afraid of losing my loved ones would be a little like being afraid of the next full moon. It's going to happen sooner or later and I can't prevent it. Admittedly one will be somewhat more unpleasant than the other, but that's about it. I'm not even afraid of dying myself, and I love myself a lot more than I love anyone else, so if I'm comfortable with the idea that I get to go at some point, I'm comfortable with the idea that they do too.I sincerely doubt it (and, of course, I could be wrong). The way I figure it, every human being's personality is a result of programming by a combination of nature, nurture and a couple of indefinable elements. I just wanted to have a bigger say in the programming, so I did.  I personally think it is logical, or rational (and yes, these are very loaded words), to detach from some feelings. Is it a good thing to avoid feeling jealousy? How about rage? For me, yes. I do agree that logic serves an end. In this case, it serves the end of allowing me to be exactly the sort of person I want to be and to live every day without unhappiness, worry, or regret. For me personally it's a worthwhile end. I think this is a tangent, but it seems we've covered the OP's question fairly thoroughly. And no, I have no issues with the personal. As noted above, I don't get offended, and even if I did you haven't said anything which is out of line.Agreed. I just view death differently from many people and process some (not all) emotions differently from most. Would you say we all need to view death and process emotions exactly the same way?I think it's safe to say that I engage the world a great deal. I just do so as I wish, and mostly on my term's, rather than on the world's.Nice quote. I like Gibran a lot. But if we work with the quotation, shouldn't our response to someone's death be the same as our response to their life? Wouldn't sorrow at someone's death be extremely strange, considering that "life and death are one" and presumably one wasn't being sorrowful at the person's life? In this case, the response to Gary's death would presumably be the same as for his life and achievements, since his death was just one part, and a completely natural and expected one, of his life.And that just covers my stance perfectly.Thankee kindly.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I do cheat, you know. I do the emotions I want, such as joy and amusement, and just skip the ones I don't.</blockquote>

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