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We avoid risks in life to make it safely to death.

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
We don't live to be safe. At least, I try not to.

That's not to say that I'm reckless - I just think that minimizing one's life in the ways that matter to maximize it in a way that matters less is false economy.

Marcus Aurelius said:
At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that 'I am rising for the work of man'. Must I grumble at setting out to do what I was born for, and for the sake of which I have been brought into the world? Is this the purpose of my creation, to lie here under the blankets and keep myself warm? ' Ah, but it is a great deal more pleasant!' Was it for pleasure, then, that you were born, and not for work, not for effort? Look at the plants, the sparrows, ants, spiders, bees, all busy at their own tasks, each doing his part towards a coherent world-order; and will you refuse man's share of the work, instead of being prompt to carry out Nature's bidding? 'Yes, but one must have some repose as well.' Granted; but repose has its limits set by nature, in the same way as food and drink have; and you overstep these limits, you go beyond the point of sufficiency; while on the other hand, when action is in question, you stop short of what you could well achieve.

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Skwim

Veteran Member
Some people delight in taking risks. And to some degree we all willingly take them.
 

Midnight Pete

Well-Known Member
We avoid risks in life to make it safely to death.

And yet the only risks we can avoid are the ones we're aware of. Even if you have a lot of order in your life, death can come for you at any time or place. Spike TV has a program I find perversely andf morbidly entertaining:

1000 Ways to Die | SPIKE
 

TheDane93

Member
For some that is right, and those will be people who dont believe that life ends when you die....you get me?

people who live life at its most will always say "You only live once", they want to experience live 'cause you never know when you die. And to those people death means the end.

So to sum up: Non-believers only have a lifetime to live so they wanna make the most of it, and if that means taking risks then be so. Believers on the other hand have more than a lifetime to live which means they dont have to take risks they have enough time to take it nice and easy

I hope you got my point - i didnt really know how to explain it :)
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Seems like a pretty silly game of semantics. People generally avoid risks to minimize the possibility of dying early.

That would be the obvious one. I'm not overly frightened on the inevitability of death, yet I take reasonable precautions so I'm not apt to leave the playground just yet. :O)
 
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