Because I Couldn' Stop for Death

[ceasetoexist]

[Well Pokey has had a busy week. Tripping balls over hallucinogenic gas. Bothering a bunch of people and running through their yards as he tried to get away from his hallucination. Getting beaten to death. Beating to death the drone of the person who beat him to death. Getting droned for beating that person to death.

Needless to say, getting killed and then killing someone in the span of a few days has brought a question to mind.]

Hey. Yeah. I’m curious.

Like I know we don’t die here, not really since we come back…what do you all think happens to us after we really do die? Like, do you believe in a Heaven and Hell and all that jazz, or something else, or nothing at all?

Comments

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

It's not stupid! It's a valid way of thought and way better at being 'oh woe is me I am so sad and depressed!' all the time.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Which is why I don't do either.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

So what do you do. Do you just truck through life not feeling anything?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

That's the plan.

Well, I feel some things, but only when it's really necessary.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Feelings are always necessary. They may not always be pleasant but...

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Then forget 'em. I don't need them.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Things can't be kittens and rainbows all the time, but it doesn't mean that it's all gray skies either.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Probably better to expect storms then sunshine, though.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but you can always hope for the sunshine.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Hope isn't founded on anything.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Maybe not, but it does a lot of good things. Hope keeps people going, it accomplishes a lot.

At the risk of sounding REALLY corny, hope is all you got sometimes.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Man.

Pity the poor sucker who only has that.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

But with that they can change things for the better.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Not if they don't have power behind it.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Depends on what you define as power.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Well there's several types.

Money, prestige, might, ect. They're all pretty valid forms of power.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Ok fine, those are forms of power. But there's always the power of making someone else's day brighter by smiling or holding the door.

There's the power of an idea passed along from one person to another.

Family, friends, basically a community support network. That's also power.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

No. That's weakness.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Let me put it this way. It's easier to attack someone who's alone then someone who is in a large group.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you've always gotta make sure the group isn't about to turn on you.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Done properly it wont.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

But you can still never be sure it was done properly. You've always gotta be on guard.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

You have trust issues up the wazoo don't you. [Even someone like Ken can see that after Pokey's comment there]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

And like I keep saying, that doesn't really matter. I'm perfectly fine.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

It does matter. To get through life you have to trust people. You have to trust the person walking next to you on the street not to push you in front of a car, you have to trust the shopkeepers not to short change you.