What would you do if you had no more than 7 days?

Would the fear be so great that you could not do anything you would like to?

Would you become criminal?

To be imperturbable as a a consiousness or understanding is the highest
one could obtain.

Would you go for the highest?

On 6 Sep, 11:58, Leon Hoeneveld wrote:

keep a syringe handy! bye x

On Sep 6, 8:58 pm, Leon Hoeneveld wrote:

How does one know that this isnt the case?

Reminds me of the line "live as though there is no tomorrow" That
combined with 'forget about tomorrow 'cause tomorrow never comes' is a
great recipe for 'being'.... consciously.

BOfL

bigfletch8@gmail.com schreef:

A rough sketch of sorts of people is that you have 1) people that live
*from* the past, always busy with what was, what it meant etc. and 2)
people that live *to* the future, alwys busy with what to come, what one
could do etc.

It is quite normal for people that are young to be of type 2, and people
that are old to be of type 1.

A typical product of type 1 people is the book, a retrospective on the
world. A typical product of type 2 people is clothing, something to wear
on future occasions.

People living towards the future have prejudices. People linving form
the past have afterjudices.

Philosophers are mostly people with afterjudices.

Nic schreef:

With what? You want to OD before you go?

I have had the occasion to confront this question directly. A few
weeks ago I was told I had cancer. The cancer is a neck cancer:
squamous metastasis with occult primary.
Although my life will be longer than 7 days It has caused me to
confront my mortality.
I have no consolation from any kind of god. If god exists then he has
made me so that I cannot believe in him. I am a confirmed atheist and
my forthcoming death will not change this.
The main trick has been to force myself not to think of cancer in
every waking moment of my life. Still after 6 weeks "cancer" is the
first waking thought. It is like a black-dog waiting to eat out my
insides, he sits deep in my chest and hence everything is made absurd
except the dog itslef.
SInce then I have had cancerous tonsil removed, which I am now
recovering from. At the end of the month I have now to face
radiotherapy and chemotherapy - every day for 6.5 weeks. This will
leave me with some permanent consequences to my health, and with no
guarentee of cure.
As I now gradually come to terms with my inevitable death I have found
that "business as usual" is my favoured course. I always used to think ...

Thank you for your open-heartedness.

To live is being confronted, is it not a small thing, then a big thing.
Through several confrontations we have mostly already found ourselves a
live-pattern that suits us. Not that we would not change it if some
confrontations, like having not much money, would not change it. But
actually I belief that the confrontation "less time" would not change much.

Keep it clear!

chazwin schreef: