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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2013 - 05:21pm PT
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Who you calling boring?
Grade A Asshole?
Yeah- probably right on both accounts. But a "Republican" that's the first time that one has been pulled out. I actually have a McGovern 1972 for presidentposter in my classroom- top that!
Thinking things over it's probably the lack of wit that I find most annoying in the YGD comment.
Base jumping sounds tough.
I'd like to make it to the Sushi fest but the schedule just hasn't let it happen. But if it did, I'd definitely DINE.
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
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Feb 10, 2013 - 07:09pm PT
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I believe in life before death.
I've come to realize that death is a process. It's something we all have to do but (except in cases of instant death) it doesn't just "happen" to us rather it's our final act of LIFE. We are alive through that process. I held my grandma as she slowed her breathing over a three hour period with a grin on her face, til she took her last breath. She went through the process with grace; didn't try to fight it.
I also like "it's a good day to die" and the meaning of that is not so obvious. Took me a long time to see another side of that one, having read many quotes from native americans tales of going into battle. I used to think it was sick and suicidal but they didn't really want to die.
Yer gonna die never really bothered me.
Live,
Arne
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Feb 10, 2013 - 09:59pm PT
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Don't take every thing to your heart. These 'yer gonna die' people are just fooling around. This forum would turn into a boring ass place if every little thing that offends someone is taken out.
And some of my friends did die climbing. But the truth is...
yer gonna die!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
and maggots are waitin!
so get out and do all the sh#t you want to do in your life as soon as possible, cuz life is not forever!
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Psilocyborg
climber
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Feb 10, 2013 - 10:10pm PT
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Drama queen Dan.....take this stupid sh#t to facebook. You caring about this is so much stupider than the phrase itself.
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Feb 10, 2013 - 10:17pm PT
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Nice pics vitaliy. Those aren't maggots though, they're baby scorpions.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Feb 10, 2013 - 10:29pm PT
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Go ahead and live forever and prove us wrong.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Feb 10, 2013 - 10:47pm PT
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Those aren't maggots though, they're baby scorpions.
WELL! In the point I am making, THEY ARE maggots! :)
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Feb 10, 2013 - 10:51pm PT
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Haha. F*#kin maggots.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Feb 10, 2013 - 10:54pm PT
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I think Vitialy has the right idea.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Feb 10, 2013 - 11:02pm PT
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call the waaambulance. Everyone dies, I just hope I die from something other than slow illness. Dying from climbing is fine by me, but being eaten by a shark while surfing sounds even better.
we don't even know what dying means, so why fear something that might be awesome? Or it might be nothing, or it might be awful. We don't have a clue.
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Feb 10, 2013 - 11:10pm PT
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Until we each realize that our individual death is our illusion we will have talks like this and think we are victims of our friend's death and express some pain/hurt or anger. Well, I can say Cosmic.
I am reminded of a song by Queen but the words don't persist. For one death --one thought, move on.
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Gilroy
Social climber
Bolderado
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Feb 11, 2013 - 10:25am PT
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Long been a subject of some humour...
Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
The Bard
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wbw
Trad climber
'cross the great divide
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Feb 12, 2013 - 01:03pm PT
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I think that dealing with death using a sense of humor (as much as is possible, at any particular time) is more healthy than dealing with it using a head-in-the-sand religion.
I hope that after I pass away, with time the people that knew me and cared about me will smile when they remember me, and find something about that memory to laugh about.
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Anastasia
climber
Home
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Feb 12, 2013 - 01:09pm PT
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That's the plan. I sure as heck won't survive my own life!
I have lost folks, including a few in the scuba diving world. I don't take that phrase in a dark way. It's a warning about what you are doing, heck, I can die slipping in my shower. It is also a statement about the inevitable, that it will happen. When, how, why... You can control only so much. I'll do my best on keeping myself and those around me safe and the rest... Well, it is what it is.
AFS
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Feb 12, 2013 - 01:16pm PT
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Vitaliy, love the picture of Russell's north side there. TFPU.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 12, 2013 - 01:59pm PT
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Used to be a life wimp, now I'm a life liver.....well I mean I live....my livers fine....I think. :D liver lynne :D
So deliver us from evils, weevils, all the phake Elvises and devil-may-care turdes who like claiming a certainty in an ironic manner, turning death on it's head. And this sort of deliverance is useful for lots of things, humor being one. Black humor, as practiced by Vonnegut, who thought saw a way out alive, but changed his mind later when he passed away, is what this phrase is about, making light of a dark subject.
This thread is gonna die--just like "He Died Doing What He Loved" died. We wore the topic out. And here it is, in another guise.
The Biography of Sinuousityby O'Slide tells us that if one is cowardly in his approach to life, in other words, a "life wimp," then he is a sheep and is eligible for shearing, just on principle, by the wolves of the land...
Nature Rules.
Lynnie delivers.
Mouse drivels.
And then you die.
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darkmagus
Mountain climber
San Diego, CA
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Feb 14, 2013 - 03:47pm PT
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Vitaliy, love the picture of Russell's north side there. TFPU.
I second that! What an amazing face. Gotta be some SICK line on there hitherto untouched. And I think there's a Beckey route on the right side of it.
I'm pro-YGD. It has become my mantra. And it serves me well in ALL of my adventures (climbing or not).
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