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I again say, control and conscious decision may be part of your definition. But bravery for me can be accepting the inevitable. I find that a very brave move, regardless if they have control over it or not. Also, per 'fighting for your life', psychological approach does play a huge role in it. Just saying. A person can 'fight' cancer by staying positive about it, because that battle is on a completely different level.

Meh, we have our own definitions of bravery, then. @ Obfuscator: If the above is true, though, who are you to say that it is ridiculous to call someone brave when it doesn't match our own personal idea of bravery? Who are you to say that being a cancer patient is not brave at all? Anyway, bravery is one of those abstract ideas that, when it comes down to it, cannot be fully defined.

:thumbup: Get it, son!

I'm sure many say the opposite is brave: sticking it out, experiencing the suffering.

Lenin said throwing around the word 'brave' was problematic, not the word 'hero'. And to be honest (and I don't mean any offense), I think that Lenin's being a bit unreasonable, as are the people who agree with him. I mean, come on, does it really piss you off when people call a kid who is going to die soon 'brave'? Who cares if this kid doesn't fit the exact definition of bravery. In such a situation, why should you be pissed about a little misuse of the word? Death is right in front of them; they know they won't live as long as they could have without cancer. They have to deal with that, and I find simply living on knowing that to be brave, simply accepting it.

To me, I can't even comprehend being completely and totally unaware. I know what being unaware of something feels like, but being unaware of everything? That can't be described with simple words (similar to how emotions can't really be explained fully with words). I caught the bold, by the way. ;) Yeah not existing is not really something we can comprehend. There's no feeling we can put behind it to understand it. I've accepted that I can't comprehend it. That's just it. Non-comprehension = nothing. We cannot isolate the feeling of non-comprehension, though, and attribute that to what happens after death. Even though we cannot comprehend it, other emotions are still flying (for me, frustration is most prominent), we're still living, etc. We're just going in circles here, because we cannot know what being completely non-comprehensive feels like (i.e. a being who's essence is non-comprehension). Oh, and another thing, "non-comprehension = nothing" is not a fact, but your opinion. Just wanted to point that out. For Catholics, being unable to comprehend perfect love (or perfection in general) does not mean it cannot exist (i.e. is nothing). Rather, God's nature (for God is perfect, unconditional love and perfect in Godself) does not allow us humans to comprehend God. As the great St. Augustine wrote: "Si comprehendis, non est Deus" meaning "if your idea of God claims to totally comprehend God, then your idea is not God at all."

Funny as a fictional joke. I dunno what 9gag is or if it implies it isn't true; either way, I don't believe that's real. Maybe the 'American' in me is slightly offended. :P

Well, technically you have the ability to not go (i.e. just walk somewhere away from the school). I'm just being funny. Haha? :mrgreen:

If you dig, Rancid plays, too. :thumbup: I made a fake Facebook account with one of those names that African Americans sometimes use (i.e. [first name] LookCloser [last name]; mind you, the middle name is often a lot... more ghetto). I was going to use it and friend request all these African American people with names following that style, just to look at their statuses (which can be extremely funny at times). Yes, I'm laughing at these people. [hide=Example (profane)]-tired nd sleepy but cnt sleep,to b honest i feel lik cuttin me a [racist term] #ugh fuk[/hide] Copied the above directly from a girls news feed.

Come now, we really don't have to go to school. ;)

Sorry, Noxxx. She does have this weird thing with her eyes. Is this better?

You better be staying for Blink, sonny! They're the main act, and it's [bleep]ing dope.

Been listening to the National and The Dodos with rainymood.com in the background. Makes for nice study music. :thumbup: EDIT: I moved onto Hammock with rainymood in the background, and I could seriously close my eyes and relax forever with this on.

Arm floats in general. Man, the days when I had to use those. Etch-A-Sketch.

First Chemistry lab today. Not sure what to expect, since physics and chemistry labs are bound to be organized differently. I think we're doing something easy in class, though. Water displacement, me thinks. I wouldn't mind spending three hours doing the displacement method for various objects to calculate density and find out what they're made of. :P

Kind of a regret: I was thinking last night that there's so much I want to do right now. On one hand, I want to get really good at longboarding, which means a lot of riding every day and learning new tricks and getting better at riding switch so I can do more tricks. On the other hand, I want to start going to the gym, lifting and toning my body. On the third hand (yes, I have more than two hands), I want to have fun and relax and play video games. It'd be fun to get good at Halo and find a bunch of friends to play with on there. This hand includes TIF, which I also like spending time on. On the fourth hand, I have to focus on school and my social life (maybe look for a lady friend). It's just really hard to prioritize because I don't have a whole lot of free time cause of school. And I want to do all of the above in that little amount of time. It's just difficult to do everything I want to do. EDIT: And dealing with the above post, I also regret playing Runescape (for the most part). There's a few friends who I miss greatly, but other than that, I think about how much time I could have spent getting good at longboarding if I had gotten into it earlier.

Mélanie Laurent can be attractive at times.

Haha, Ouchy goes home and finds a girl huddled under his bed. Surprise!

WUT. And??? Was there anything?

To me, I can't even comprehend being completely and totally unaware. I know what being unaware of something feels like, but being unaware of everything? That can't be described with simple words (similar to how emotions can't really be explained fully with words). I caught the bold, by the way. ;)

I remember playing a game like that. Everyone was just hiding way up in the rocks on the map or near the water behind those rocks. I was the only one actually moving around, and it was damn near impossible to stay positive when you have peoples just popping out once in a while to take a shot at you.

Just jessup at this point. I'm thinking, due to the amount of griptape bought (muck up in order, can't fix it now) that I will do horizontal stripes down the board. Sweet. Well, if you have the time, post a picture of the finished board. I wanna see the set up and everything. :thumbup:

Haha, Halo, I just watched Kung Pow a few days ago. I fully appreciate your sig.

I would say death is still frightening even after that quote because we would know that we're missing life... But if we truly do fall out of existence (soul and body), we wouldn't know anything, because we wouldn't be any more. I think the scary thing is what 'not existing' will feel like. Of course, we obviously won't feel anything, but that doesn't change the fact that we're worried. Its another concept I can't wrap my mind around: what not existing will be like. According to the quote, it'll be like what was before birth; ask me what it felt like before birth, and I won't know what to say. The concept of 'nonexistence' is just mind blowing, especially with our intellect. How can whatever makes us unique (a soul, if you will) simply cease to entirely exist.

I basically sat at the back of the class bored cause we were learning dimensional analysis in Chemistry. Done with classes now. Have to do an online assignment for Chemistry, read some Plato, and reread the Rime. Should hopefully be a relaxing evening. Unfortunately, one of my best friends is dropping the chemistry class we were in, meaning I'll see way less of him than I already do (he lives across campus this year). :\