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Shinobi

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If I were to leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?
For some who may not be familar this is a very famous lyric from a Lynard Skynard song but that is for the most part irrelevant.
I have been contemplating an idea for quite sometime now, and that idea is this. Is it possible to condense human life. What I purpose is this...
To live life to the fullest for two weeks. Empty all bank accounts, party constantly everyday, don't pay bills, do whatever was wanted for two whole weeks then after those two weeks end your life. Could some in theory live all that life has to offer in two weeks and then feel satisfied? Personally I think so.
No worries about bills, or any finaces, no long term reprocussions. Sleep with who ever you want, your not going to die of aids, as you will be dead before you ever find out you have the disease. Spend all your money on expensive places to eat, drugs, partys, whores, whatever. Write bad checks, your not going to have to pay latefees or the such.
So in theory, you want to see Europe? No problem, write bad checks to cover the trip. Who cares how you get back as you won't be alive to worry about it.
This is a completly complex theory, and at first glance looks as some kind of suicidal maddness. Perhaps it is, but insanity is the only sane soultion in an insance situation.
- Shinobi
 
oh my gosh shinobi i have thought about that many-a-times. why do we all have to go to damn college and then work our asses off ...to just end up dead ?! i have always thought that people dont take advantage of this wonderful thing called LIFE! i mean come on, how many people get to see their dreams come true just because of money or whatever else may be stopping them. personally i agree, but thinking against the norm isnt RIGHT! (booisim) *errrrr* this worlds way of thinking sucks, why arent there more people that think like you and me?! oh yeah pikachu agrees to! hehe
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It seems to me that I'm too addicted to life itself, and the fact that I'm living even if I'm doing some TEN PAGE PAPER FROM HELL, um uh I'm fine really, or I'm living the good life, is still a damn good thing. Sure you could condense all that and have a good time and go out with a bang. But even the bad times in life to me are times, and I want as much as that as possible. What revelations I might have, if I hadn't jumped off that building, what new experiences that would've occured? I wouldn't know. I don't think you can live a full life in two weeks, because there is to much to life. But I do see your perspective in that you can achieve the greatest sense of freedom ever that you could never have because of responsibility. Um I should stop rambling now, my brains gonna just start making this horrible run on sentence that never ever seems to stop, and then just when you think it should stop, well it just keeps going and going and......Kabloom!
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If anything I do drugs to appreciate reality.
 
Tha's an interestin thought. I think about life all tha time, n what exactly is tha purpose of it...n one time when I wuz trippin I realized that there really is no PURPOSE for me to be alive, I jus am. Tha same wiff all of you. Spending 2 weeks doing absolutely anything you wanted, well it's almost a tempting thought...but I think that I too love life too much. 2 weeks jus wouldn't be enuff fer me. But I will continue to live my life by this one phrase: "I would rather regret tha things that I did rather than those I did not do." And I know this is kinda a rambling post...but I wanna tell all of you to live for yourself and to always follow your heart...because you only get to live once and there's so much out there to see and to do and to learn. Your heart may sometimes lead you to sad n painful places, but who ever became strong from having only good things happen to them? When you come to tha end of this road of life, you shouldn't ever be able to say "What if I had done this, or said that...?" Always do what YOU feel is right; because even though it might not be right, at least you'll know and you won't ever have to wonder. *whew* there's sum ramblings fer ya! hehe Anywayz...everaone have a nice day n a nice week n a nice month, etc etc.
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Ski
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"Shine on you crazy diamond....."
 
my 2/100 worth...
do you want to live life or visit it? that's the difference between experience and knowledge. Sure you know how a boat is built, but have you built one? So you may sample a lot of life in two weeks, but you haven't had the full experience. And i don't know about you, but i think it would be an empty two weeks -- the whole time you would be preoccupied with the fact that you have to kill yourself sooner or later. And you'd never experience the depths of the true love that is out there for everyone. Pleasures of the flesh. All you would do is please the flesh. And sure, i'm all about pleasing my body, but I know my mind is going to live a lot longer than my body. And so i need to learn to live with it before i'm forced to be with it only.
So, IMHO, you cannot condense life. Life will be how long it will be. I think taking your own life is the cowardly thing to do. If you want to experience life, experience it every day. Enjoy the ups, reflect on the downs. If everything were good, then nothing would be good -- good is defined by bad.
I've thought about it, but i know i can't take my life. i've had my run in and when push came to shove, i couldn't do it. most people can't. you've got to learn and accept that life is a gift we never asked for, but are never ready to give up when the time comes. So live each day. Live today so tomorrow will be better.
Sure there will be struggles... but hey man, we know how to roll... so roll with it baby... we'll all get there in the end.
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I always thought that "Stop, Drop, and Roll" was a way to save your life if you caught on fire, but then I realized my grade school teachers were advocating my later drug use.
 
OMG!!! Im so happy that i read all this shit. i feel like you guys are like reading my mind, its so weird. i alwayz think of stuff like that...all the time. but think of it this way:
life is weird. it can be anything you want it to be. why should everyone in the world be so hard on education and financial shit when you dont know when your goin to die. why spend your whole life preparing for your future, when you might not even have one. (no offense to anyone about religion) god has a plan for all of us, he knows that day were born and the day we die, and we ahve to fill the rest in. if were destinted to die on may 10, but you get hit by a bus on june4, you wont die. and EVERYTHING happens for a reason. its true. everything that we do is for a reason. so, why not take all the risks and live life to the fullest, and know, that wen you die, you had a kick ass life, or, die knowing that you worked your whole life for nothing and you never even stopped to smell the roses or smoke some weed.
 
just to agree... you don't know when yer gonna move on to the next life... you don't know when yer last day is... you don't know how long yer gonna be here... our life is like a drop of dew on a blade of grass -- it's here in the morning, but somewhere between there and the evening it disappears...
so? learn what you can. prepare for tomorrow, but live like it isn't coming -- ie, prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
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I always thought that "Stop, Drop, and Roll" was a way to save your life if you caught on fire, but then I realized my grade school teachers were advocating my later drug use.
 
Well, I agree that you could probably experience all the materialistic, tangible pleasures of life. But in your description of "life's pleasures" you forgot to mention Love. You forgot to mention the huge array of emotions that no one can experience in a 2 week period. I can't say that If I went on a 2 week purge, spending all my money, enjoying all the material pleasures, having no cares at all, that I have even experienced a small part of life.
That's what I have to say about it anyways...
Hope you're not contemplating anything along the same lines.... Although i'm sure it was just a thought.
*CytocHromE*
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*Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.*
 
I don't know..
I must have read the original post at least 10 times now...
I just don't get it..
If you want to kill yourself...at least make it a pay per veiw special...so that the ones left over...that is...the ones who have the sak to live, watch you as you ass-over tea kettle your good bye to life, get to watch and feel better about themselves as they go to work on Monday.
Jesus, man, I always thought that the brightest and loudest fireworks display was the best..
you're neither...
until the two weeks are over...
your friend...
Chance
 
Here is my .02:
Life throws you good and bad.. and yes you can buy yourself 'some' good (and I use that losely), but it is the unexpected good the unexpected fun that is the best. It is the pain and the worry and the suffering that makes us enjoy and appreciate it more when it happens.
 
hhmmm what to say well shinobi i have lived my life to the fullest in places done and seen more then most my age. i dont see the need to die when you have so much life flowing out of you, around you, in the corners of your soul. I dont make sense to anyone but me i know but trust me life can be so hard its like your drowning and no one can hear you screaming for help. I live when god knows I dont want to. I feel and see all the things in my life with open eyes knowing that change is slow to come but it does come have some faith that life is never as bad as it seems. Some one out there is always just a lil more nutty then you and feels the pain you claim to know. Its like I can tell you that killing your self after partying like mad wouldn't be a condensed life because it wouldnt be. Life is what you learn what you feel, self grow is hard learning sometimes is the only way. It seems to me that you wanted to ask for help or let some one know how you were feeling the only comfort i can offer you is that you are not alone hundred,maybe even millions of ppl feel the same way. living life well that takes years and if you learn it too fast you loose something along the way. I dont know what else to say other then i have rambled for no one to understand it hahahaha
take care, think bfore you act, smoke a bowl chill for a while. lunatic thoughts are free when youre loony toons
binkie
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Thanks for the replys, good to see educated responses on odd subject manner.
The point I suppose I am making is well, if you had the option persay to live not live life but a certain time to live start a to b and could do anything you wanted inbetween but! when your time is up your time is up. Or, would you choose the option if you had it to live and not know how long you will be living for unless you choose to end your life. The later choice is basicly life as we know it now. As we have no idea when we are going to cease to exist and how we shall perish unless we take it into our own hands.
So with this new twist of options would it make a difference? Or does the point still stand that Life can not be open an close thing in a set time frame because life is the journy of unknown with self instegated events? Thus one cannot live life as life is the adventure of the unexpected with no set time limit.
Just some more thoughts
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Much love,
Shinobi
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Every great journey begins with the first step.
 
That is really kinda profound. Alot of times I think of that. I have done the whole, my boring normal life get married and crap. But then realize, you sometimes you are not actually living in your life, but just kinda walking through it in a daze,, welll i did at least. Sometimes when bad things happen, it is actually a blessing and you understand the importance of really living your life to a more fuller level. If you told me three years ago your going to die in two weeks solive it up. I might not take advantage of the chances to live it up. But if you told me the exact same thing today. What a change you might see happen from what i might do from before. I take advantage of life alot more then I used to I so enjoy it more. Life is addicting in it self once you step out of the Normal thought process.
Once again,, i like your thoughts shinobi thanks for sharing
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i don't know about that really.
have you ever spent the holidays partying day in day out, cheating on your partner, doing all sorts of shit...
then at a rare, silent moment, you realize, you need a break?
that's because all that, sleeping with anyone you want, partying, it's all in pursuit of temporary happiness. you may seem happy for a period, but even the veterans of the best party scene get sick of it once in a while.
i guess killing yourself would be the perfect solution to the "getting sick of it all" part, but if you want and enjoy something so much, why would you kill yourself?
like if you find the perfect person who you love and you think is your soulmate, you'd want each moment to last forever. (cheesy, but, i guess it's the truth)
i personally am in love with life, even all its obstacles.
i have no idea why i am on this earth, but right now i'm doing my best to live it to its fullest and expand my mind to its potential.
 
there are some quality self-investigations here peeps. but i'm not sure if neone has touched on this yet -
OTHER PEOPLE WOULD MISS YOU.
taking your own life is a selfish act. even if in the 2 weeks i thoroughly enjoyed myself i couldnt leave people behind me to b unhappy, because then i could never b happy.
i take the greatest rewards from making others happy, and in turn this makes me happy.
 
There's no way I cold do everything I wanted to do in 2 weeks. No way possible. I don't even think I could do them all in a lifetime...how ever long that may be, and there'll be more things I want to do every day longer that I live
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Condensing life assumes that growth [atleast, in an emotional/experiential sense] follows a linear path...that it goes up over time, punctuated by idle periods. I don't think this is true. We can't often predict the value that some experiences may have, when they are happening, in laying the foundation for later periods of growth. Or if those periods of growth will ever come about. We can set within us certain conditions to facilitate growth and happiness but these conditions are by no means a guarantee that it could happen. If the conditions you offer above were guarantees of a heightened existence - why would you want to stop living once you had discovered what some people spend their lives searching for
 
I think underscoring this proposition is the question of whether or not you should live life or more specifically take risks with an appreciation/fear for the costs involved. It's a repeating theme when you talk of sleeping with whomever you want, doing whatever you want, etc.
Without bad there is no sense of good...cost creates value. From an emotional perspective after perma-bliss had become the modus operandi and the perspective from which one viewed life tacking on more and more experiences would be meaningless...they would only have meaning or value in the prior existence where one could compare an experience to what is known as bad.
I think fundamentally the question you may need to ask yourself is if you want fear or cost to pervade your decision making more than the possible upside of a risk...if your philosophical ponderings are like all other human beings a reflection of your own value set and objectives/obstacles in life.
Idealism sounds great on paper but pulling the trigger emotionally on letting go of the fear of loss, failure, rejection, etc. is a different thing. I think that being said it important to recognize that the key is for there to be a balance between fear and fearlessness and that it is not a zero sum, either-or, black and white condition. Where your resting point of comfort lies on the spectrum will not only vary from the next person but also within your life as you move from one stage to the next
 
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