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This probably have been posted here before, but I am in just the right state of mind to post this thread, any other time I'd feel too awkward. And I probably will feel that way in the morning, when all my inhibitions kick in again, but to hell with it. And no, I haven't been drinking.
After DeadCujo's thread about dead people I suddenly realised, (from a different perspective than before) I don't have a will and testament. I brushed it off with the argument that I'm too young for having that. TOO YOUNG??? Maybe I AM too young to die, but that's hardly an argument to the Reaper. And it's odd I didn't have this insight before, considering I've lost one friend and one cousin just these past three months.
I remember an article a few years back, about the trend of the 90's. In short, it said that it was more okay to discuss sex than death. And it still IS very hard for me to talk about death with my loved ones.
I don't own very much, so my will wouldn't be so much about my belongings. I do have a little cat, though. And it would be sad if they killed him, should I die. So if I don't get a testament, at least I should go over it orally with someone.
So my message here is that you bring this up with your friends or family, no matter how awkward it feels. If you dont have a testament but you do have something you don't want unresolved if you die, you have to. I know there are many older and wiser people here that may find me patronizing, so my main target here (no pun intended) is all of you young and dumb, just like myself, that really hadn't thought about this in a long time.
I will do this as fast as I can, if I still have the guts in daytime, that is. I hope you will too.
------------------ Ready for the action now, Dangerboy Ready if I'm ready for you, Dangerboy Ready if I want it now, Dangerboy? How dare you, dare you, Dangerboy? How dare you, Dangerboy? I dare you, dare you, Dangerboy...
Shik
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I have nothing in terms of assets to really effect a will. I have no savings, I have few possesions that are really "sacred"...it's pretty moot.
However, I DO know that various friends might want to, say, rape my CDs or absorb my movies or lay claim to my models & such. Therefore, I'm planning on choosing an executor of sorts. Said person will have all my possessions placed into a large room. Anyone who wants anything will be given a marker & a roll of masking tape & told to wait at the door.
On the executor's word, the "contestants" are going to be let in & they have 30 minutes to run around & put their name on anything they want; taking other people's names of things will disqualify them. At the end of the half-hour, whatever has their name on it is theirs to take home.
Neat, simple, effective, & fun.
------------------ "There are three things I HATE, Jet: kids..pets..& women with attitudes. So WHY do we have all THREE on BOARD?!?"--Spike Spiegel
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I have a will, although it's unofficial (never witnessed or notarized) and needs updated (I've lost some friends and gained a girlfriend since I wrote it). It pretty much gives away everything I really care about, including publishing rights to my writing, then tells people that they're free to fight over the rest.
As an aside... The funniest will I ever heard was "Last Will and Temperament," (on the Dr. Demento 30th anniversary album) by the Frantics, those wonderful guys who also gave us "Ty Kwan Leap/Boot to the Head."
------------------ "Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ty Kwan Leap. Approach me, that you might see." -- The Master
I've always had interesting ideas about death (and no, I'm not any sorta nihilist/athiest). One being that death for you is impossible. Just for you, though. Or, to put it another way, when you see others die, are they dieing or just other variables in your world that disappear?
When you see someone, talk to them, walk around them, are they really to your level of consciousness? Can they percieve the world like you, be like you? Can that ant on the ground see in three dimensions? You assume. Everything is assumption.
We assume they can because, from what are senses tell us, they are beings like ourselves. Ourself is the reference point for everything that we percieve, but is everything that we percieve as real as we?
This is a very complicated idea, but it can make sense. Just think ...
To start, think of the world like a movie, a play, that you play the only role in. (Is this an introvert idea or what?) All the things in your world are produced by your mind, your supreme consciousness ...
------------------ -Small Computer Systems Interface "Scuzzy" Emperor
Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.
"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."
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It's not my personal philosophy. Just a thought that puts the conception of life into perspective. You think I'm that much of an egotist?
I said I had interesting ideas, not firm beliefs. There's another one that facinates me, about the collective sub-consciousness that every human being can tap into. But that's a whole different subject altogether ...
------------------ -Small Computer Systems Interface "Scuzzy" Emperor
Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.
"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."
Tolstoy, on a more objective note.
[This message has been edited by SCSImperium (edited September 09, 2000).]
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Well, philosophizing about life-perspectives is one of the more interesting things. Anything to make one less confused...
I almost chose it for my special project in my last school-year, before I noticed how much had been published in said area.
That sub-thing, do you mean like a more civilized cattle-herd?
------------------ Ready for the action now, Dangerboy Ready if I'm ready for you, Dangerboy Ready if I want it now, Dangerboy? How dare you, dare you, Dangerboy? How dare you, Dangerboy? I dare you, dare you, Dangerboy...
�on Flux, "Thanatophobia"
[This message has been edited by Nimrod (edited September 10, 2000).]
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