Deathbed regrets

@Cyracuz,

DAVID wrote:

What does that say about U ?????

Cyracuz wrote:

If a car driving past you suddenly loses control and skids towards you,
would you not feel fear at that moment?

I 'd get out of the way, or jump up on it, if possible.
(Wait for better leisure, to start feeling emotions.)

Cyracuz wrote:

If a madman started shooting random people around you in a public place,
would you not feel fear?

Something like that already HAPPENED,
hence: I need not *speculate*, but merely remember it.
Someone shot at me; put a bullethole in my driver's side window,
about 3 inches in front of my face. I was too busy taking out my OWN gun,

http://www.proguns.com/images/used-guns/usedguns247-904/278taurus445.jpg

to feel any emotion,
except that I got a mild chuckle out of it.

According to Winston Churchill:
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

I did not feel "exhilarated"; I just got a little chuckle out of it,
as thay fled the scene when thay saw MY gun come out.
( I was pleased that it is reflective: stainless steel mirror. )

I was also pleased that I had "full glass coverage".

Cyracuz wrote:

Controlling one's emotions is not about eliminating them.

Your point being: ?????

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

I'm not interested in playing hide and seek with you. I've expressed myself clearly, and it is possible to relate to my words. If you see this as an opportunity to swagger, that is fine, but totally uninteresting.

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@Cyracuz,

Cyracuz wrote:

I'm not interested in playing hide and seek with you. I've expressed myself clearly,
and it is possible to relate to my words. If you see this as an opportunity to swagger, [????]
that is fine, but totally uninteresting.

I merely paid u the courtesy of answering YOUR specific questions
and then I get accused of swaggering!!! The nerve of some people!

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

Did that make you feel anything?

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It shud be noted that it has happened 1OOOs of times in human experience
that threats to life have presented themselves
and their victims become too busy with actually HANDLING the dangers to become emotional.

That is not any novelty, nor has it been unique to me.

David

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@Cyracuz,

Cyracuz wrote:

Did that make you feel anything?

Well, as I said b4, Cyracuz, I felt mild humor for a moment.

I later felt a little annoyed
that I had to call a glazier to put in a new window the next day.
I felt pleased that I did not have to pay him.
My insurance carrier paid him directly; (I had "full glass coverage").

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

True. I've been in such situations myself. The rush of emotions usually comes after, once the adrenalin settles. But my point is that even though we can handle ourselves and make informed, sensible decisions, emotions are present.

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@Cyracuz,

Cyracuz wrote:

True. I've been in such situations myself.
The rush of emotions usually comes after, once the adrenalin settles.

Indeed, it has happened so many times in combat already in different wars,
that it is not deemed unusual: after a firefight, a soldier finds himself to be wet.
Sometimes (especially at night) he suspects that his canteen was mutilated by enemy gunfire.
The wetness proves to be blood. He had gotten shot during the gunfight,
but his attention was so closely focused upon what he was doing
that he knew not of the wound until peace and quiet were restored.
(appropos of Indians shoving big pins thru their mouths or their arms, painlessly)

Cyracuz wrote:

But my point is that even though we can handle ourselves and make informed,
sensible decisions, emotions are present.

Can an emotion exist, if it is not consciously FELT??

If mild humor is an emotion,
then I can agree with your assertion.

David

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I might have had a deathbed regret
if I had been unarmed that night.

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To be honest, I can't really answer this question until that time comes when I'm on my deathbed (assuming I'll be dying on one). I mean, I have regrets and from time to time I'm transported to those memories and replay those feelings over and over like some sick sicophant making me watch the cruelest things on loop. All I can do is hope this does not happen when I'm dying. I mean, I'd like to hope for a feeling of peace when I die but then again I really have no idea until it happens. I'd like to think we all hope for a peaceful death, but I can't account for the sadomasochists or the pathological thinkers out there in the world.

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@Procrustes,

You speak for all of us.

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@OmSigDAVID,

+1

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@JLNobody,

Apparently not.

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@Procrustes,

Procrustes wrote:

To be honest, I can't really answer this question until that time comes when I'm on my deathbed

Well, Y not consult people who have already gone thru it?????
As of maybe around 25 years ago, give or take,
the pollster George Gallop estimated that around 8,000,000 Americans
had returned from death in hospitals. Within that time,
there may have been more of them (like me, for example).
www.IANDS.org

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

Well, I'm neither them or you.

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@Procrustes,

Procrustes wrote:

Well, I'm neither them or you.

So WHAT???

R u unique????

R u DIFFERENT than the other 3OO,OOO,OOO of us??????

Please explain how u r different than we r.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

Well for starters, I'm not American.

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@Procrustes,

Procrustes wrote:

Well for starters, I'm not American.

O. OK. Well. I don't know for sure whether
thay let in non-citizens Up There or not. There might be a special area . . . . Good luck with that.

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