MetabolicTrash
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I notice that some people in general -- or maybe especially people when they get old enough -- start to accept the idea of dying/"prepare" for it.
I wonder really if it's the acceptance of dying that makes one reach a place where death is more likely or not, even if that might at first sound a bit dumb or such since control of living might not only be internal in every case.
A lot of people "learn to accept death" as inevitable -- or at least never realistically believe there's a chance to escape it continuously.
Did anyone not wonder if this is literally the idea of confinement? Evolutionary imprisonment in a sense? By accepting it you are preparing yourself mentally for it to happen like it will as a mandatory process. Like a hamster is stuck in a cage and sees no escape while running on that wheel, do you see escape from the very sense of you ceasing to exist? The mind is very powerful -- more than what many give it credit for. I just get the sense that anyone who accepts the idea of death at the same point and reaches a sort of "peace" with it and acceptance is kind of locking their mortality down to a form of "slow-grammed" death or release (many ways of looking at this, but I think the idea would resonate well enough). I mean think about it when you reach elderly age and have accepted death: What more is there to do? You keep living, sure, but have already conceded with the apparent inevitable that's closing in. Mindset is so underrated because many people might not have the emotional intelligence or non-polarized/free enough thinking to completely change their minds about life and death as "not a rule" or etc. I'm not saying you can will yourself to live forever alone, but perhaps acceptance of one dying -- even if they don't want to -- isn't the best way to concede and/or barter your existence/energy away "just because."
Maybe some aspects to the whole "programmed cell death" hold true if we look at it this way from the scope of the organism's means of maintaining or improving health, along with their mentality or reasoning behind their very purpose/meaning as a driving force to strongly continue living as a whole by trying to "break the rules" in ways. With the sense of no purpose you could see the idea of one ending their own life by force even if that body may have never died otherwise with purpose.
We're all here & aware that it's possible to live forever in theory/some ways at least. The awareness ability of such a grand & universal concept makes you immediately wonder whether or not we -- having these means & having reached this point -- should simply concede with the idea of a formulated, time-constrained existence.
How can we grow beyond the rules of our universal or self-imposed limitations if we concede with them?
Live, reproduce, die -- this boils life down to just an inescapable cycle of limitations & rules. Is this really the ultimate idea of "freedom" as is, unchanged & largely accepted?
EDIT: Also I maybe posted this in an unsuited category vs. other better alternatives I suppose I could have.
I wonder really if it's the acceptance of dying that makes one reach a place where death is more likely or not, even if that might at first sound a bit dumb or such since control of living might not only be internal in every case.
A lot of people "learn to accept death" as inevitable -- or at least never realistically believe there's a chance to escape it continuously.
Did anyone not wonder if this is literally the idea of confinement? Evolutionary imprisonment in a sense? By accepting it you are preparing yourself mentally for it to happen like it will as a mandatory process. Like a hamster is stuck in a cage and sees no escape while running on that wheel, do you see escape from the very sense of you ceasing to exist? The mind is very powerful -- more than what many give it credit for. I just get the sense that anyone who accepts the idea of death at the same point and reaches a sort of "peace" with it and acceptance is kind of locking their mortality down to a form of "slow-grammed" death or release (many ways of looking at this, but I think the idea would resonate well enough). I mean think about it when you reach elderly age and have accepted death: What more is there to do? You keep living, sure, but have already conceded with the apparent inevitable that's closing in. Mindset is so underrated because many people might not have the emotional intelligence or non-polarized/free enough thinking to completely change their minds about life and death as "not a rule" or etc. I'm not saying you can will yourself to live forever alone, but perhaps acceptance of one dying -- even if they don't want to -- isn't the best way to concede and/or barter your existence/energy away "just because."
Maybe some aspects to the whole "programmed cell death" hold true if we look at it this way from the scope of the organism's means of maintaining or improving health, along with their mentality or reasoning behind their very purpose/meaning as a driving force to strongly continue living as a whole by trying to "break the rules" in ways. With the sense of no purpose you could see the idea of one ending their own life by force even if that body may have never died otherwise with purpose.
We're all here & aware that it's possible to live forever in theory/some ways at least. The awareness ability of such a grand & universal concept makes you immediately wonder whether or not we -- having these means & having reached this point -- should simply concede with the idea of a formulated, time-constrained existence.
How can we grow beyond the rules of our universal or self-imposed limitations if we concede with them?
Live, reproduce, die -- this boils life down to just an inescapable cycle of limitations & rules. Is this really the ultimate idea of "freedom" as is, unchanged & largely accepted?
EDIT: Also I maybe posted this in an unsuited category vs. other better alternatives I suppose I could have.
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