Nietzsche's works treat bladder infections, too. Because, you know, when you gaze long into a piss...

-- Nephele, who may have misheard that quote, perhaps.

I'll never be able to read that line without thinking of this now!!

The piss gazes long into you!

I just almost suffocated on a piece of chocolate
That will mess up my head for a while, I've been to a psychiatrist cos I have almost paranoia of suffocating..oh well, I've learnt to manage it myself

Using the numbers on Wikipedia there your maths is off from 15-20 years.....

Oh dear, as much as we are fasinated by it, death is not a good thing!!

You don't know how many people around me think we enjoy death...
One of my teachers had a talk with me about suicide cos my poems were bit dark. I said 'It's art, you should know that'
I'm just having a lovelly breakfast and then I'll go to the library cos they sell books

I get that too. Just because my computer background is a graveyard, I wear more black in one day then most people do in a month, and all the music I listen to is about death, does not mean I want to die. In fact, under my belief system, I am utterly indifferent to my death.

I follow much the same, except I view death as purely a "release."

Whether or not you get to see something pretty (or ugly) after you die is up in the air.

I do believe in a rough sense of "good versus evil" but it's so far removed from what the storybooks and especially Hollywood paint it as. I believe in a dualism for both good and evil. Like, there are those who may be considered "evil" but probably register more as anti-villains or even an anti-hero at best. Life's not a comic book, nor is it a Hollywood production. Sometimes the "good" can be just as awful as the perceived "evil" doers. An example of this are the old Salem witch-trials or the Spanish Inquisition. Here we have two groups of people that became fanatical about their beliefs; turning what is supposed to be a loving and accepting religion into one of war and terror. What Al-Qaeda has done to Islam is much the same way.

My view on death is simple. I can't stop it, so why worry? Furthermore, after I'm dead I won't care, becuase I'll be where the flame goes after the candle is blown out.

Are you excluding cases of mortality up to age fifteen, like I did? I mean, yeah, I barely passed Algebra I, but my skills at maths aren't that terrible.


As am I --still prefer life, though.


That's a great way to put it.

I mean, sure, I subscribe to the ancient Hellenic (Greek) model of Elysium (for the especially good) - Kingdom of Hades (for most people) - Tartaros (for the especially bad --and where Hitler gets a pineapple up his Hole every six hours[1]), but as a philosophy student of Cyreniac empiricisms-scepticism, I have to admit that I cannot say for sure where anybody goes, nor can I say for certain that a soul even exists, as it's a well-established fact that our minds lie to us. I can only do my best in this lifetime, and hope for the best when it's over, whenever that may be and there's no sense in worrying about it. When the Fates say it's time to go, it's time.

1: OK, that might just be my belief...

I found that sentance on the internet, I don't remember where. It was at a time when I was really wondering about the nature of death, especially my own. I really struck a chord with me, and I think I'll always remember it. If I can format it well, I may get it tattoo'd somewhere.

Speaking of tattoos, I'm thinking of getting an homage to Nosferatu on me one day.

I've been meaning to see that movie, do you think I should watch the original 1930s (?) version, or the 70s version?

1922 was when F.W. Murnau did Nosferatu.

Both versions are worth seeing, in my opinion, cos Werner Herzog went in a different direction with his version. Murnau's is pretty much, well, Dracula changed just enough to keep the Stoker's widow from suing for copyright infringement (long story short: Florence Stoker sued anyway, was successful, and in spite of a court order to destroy the film, several copies managed to survive complete and with little damage). Herzog's goes a bit more existentialist and is more of a psychological horror, if that makes sense. Herzog's also renames the characters to match up with their counterparts in Dracula (mostly), but again, it's more is a philosophical tribute to Murnau's 1922 film than a re-telling of Bram Stoker's famous novella.

Also, some trivia: The German and English language versions of Herzog's Nosferatu are not an "original language" and "overdub", respectively. Each scene was filmed in German and then refilmed in English, and the translation from German to English is about as perfect as can be --some overdubbed films suffer in translations, but this one doesn't. On the other hand, a lot of Herzog buffs --or film fans, in general-- are of the opinion that Klaus Kinski and other German-speaking actors in the film gave a better performance in the German-language scenes.

Also, and I think this is the funnier fact: