Death and/or Gloom


Many people are scared of death. But doesn't that seem odd?

Death: the 'ultimate statistic', the one thing that every living thing can be certain will occur to it, must surely be analysed as the most natural thing that can happen to us, since it happens with so much more certainty than anything else in life.

But for some reason, something that we could call natural, feels quite unnatural. Most people put great effort into avoiding it for as long as possible. It is currently still considered a taboo subject in England.

Does this unnatural feeling perhaps point towards a built-in part of ourselves that knows it was never meant to die?

They'll Horde Sprayer


Which version do you know?...

Half
Farther
Ooh Art Inn
Hair Fern
Allowed Bee
Yawn Aim
Thing King
Dunk Um
Thigh Well
Bead Anon. Her
Fasten Hair Fern
Gear Fuss the Stay
Hour Dare
Leap Red
Hand Fig if are Since
Has Whiff Fork if Though
Zues Inner Gain Stars
Leader Snot
In Toot
Empty Chain
Buddy Liver Rust
Form Me Fill

If none of that has made sense yet, try reading it aloud. :-)



See a short story about Language...

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4 Reactions Model



Shown in the image is a small model. It is about reactions. It obviously isn't meant to be very encompassing, and it also puts things in quite black-and-white categories, which I know life isn't. But when I thought of it one day, I liked the way it challenged me, and it made me think about how balanced some parts of me were.

Two instances, and two reactions.
The instances are events that happen to us in life- good things (+) and bad things (-).
The reactions are our reactions to God- "You are good" (*) and "Why, God?" (?)

The two instances and two reactions form a total of four possible results, as visible on the grid. We'll look at each of them. First let's speed through the obvious two.