Complaining is the nature of life

SnakeTongue · 8th October 2010, 03:21 AM

Originally Posted by Tricky

Certainly the perception that one is being discriminated against is nearly universal.

Tricky, our enigmatic existences as human beings is also a discrimination against death...

I think it is part of human nature being universally against something, even if is against death.

That is why people die complaining: "I do not wish to die, I did not lived enough... I wish more!"

I wonder when anyone will sue death to reclaim compensation from the discrimination against life...

Tricky · 8th October 2010, 05:49 AM

An interesting philosophical point, but not really one for Forum management so I'm...

Moving this thread to Religion and Philosophy so it can be discussed in depth.

Posted By:Tricky

SnakeTongue · 8th October 2010, 06:14 AM

CHILDREN OF THE FROST
THE LAW OF LIFE
(First published in McClure's Magazine Vol. 16, March, 1901)

He bowed his head in content till the last noise of the complaining snow had died away, and he knew his son was beyond recall. Then his hand crept out in haste to the wood. It alone stood between him and the eternity that yawned in upon him. At last the measure of his life was a handful of fagots. One by one they would go to feed the fire, and just so, step by step, death would creep upon him. When the last stick had surrendered up its heat, the frost would begin to gather strength. First his feet would yield, then his hands; and the numbness would travel, slowly, from the extremities to the body. His head would fall forward upon his knees, and he would rest. It was easy. All men must die.

http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/Ch...rost/life.html

Darat · 8th October 2010, 06:16 AM

And?

SnakeTongue · 8th October 2010, 06:22 AM

Originally Posted by Darat

And?

Could you be more specific than just a short "and"?

Pure Argent · 8th October 2010, 07:29 AM

Originally Posted by SnakeTongue

Could you be more specific than just a short "and"?

He's asking you to be more specific. What's your point?

SnakeTongue · 8th October 2010, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by Pure_Argent

He's asking you to be more specific. What's your point?

Serious... I give up...

Since when "and?" is ask someone to being more specific?

In first place, I did not intended to create such thread.

Would the administrators destroy this thread, please?

I will not waste my time trying to guess what users are expecting.

alfaniner · 8th October 2010, 08:34 AM

Fine. Complain, but don't be a dick.

Darat · 8th October 2010, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by SnakeTongue

Could you be more specific than just a short "and"?

You posted an extract from a link so "and" what is that meant to convey/explain or otherwise add to your point or to a reply from another Member?"

SnakeTongue · 9th October 2010, 09:49 AM

Originally Posted by Darat

You posted an extract from a link so "and" what is that meant to convey/explain or otherwise add to your point or to a reply from another Member?"

I understand "Complaining" from "to complain":

Quote:

–verb (used without object)
1.
to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault:

Then, "Complaining is the nature of life" represent the an inherent part of every living being which "express dissatisfaction", even if against an unavoidable part of this same being: death.

The pain can lead to death, but death is not pain.

A living being can "express dissatisfaction" against an event and change the outcome of such event. This present a contraction in the life behaviour, since "to find fault" in death do not result in actions which dismiss the event "death" to happen.

Such enigmatic and intrinsic part of our nature is described in the story of a tribe of native people travelling during the winter, in search of food. Between the tribe is Old Koskoosh, a old man which is left behind. In this event, Old Koskoosh mediate about pasts events of is life, where he remember an young hunter:

Zing-ha lay with him in the snow and watched -- Zing-ha, who later became the craftiest of hunters, and who, in the end, fell through an air-hole on the Yukon. They found him, a month afterward, just as he had crawled halfway out and frozen stiff to the ice.

Zing-ha know his fate: death. Fallen in a hole in the ice, he do not find satisfaction with such fate, even if he know that die frozen is painless. So he "express dissatisfaction" by trying to climb to the surface, which he knows be impossible to do.

After remember this, Old Koskoosh - which is ready to accept death - express a bit of resentment about his fate:

Perhaps the heart of his son might soften, and he would come back with the dogs to take his old father on with the tribe to where the caribou ran thick and the fat hung heavy upon them.

The story end when Old Koskoosh is surrounded and let his head fall on his knees.

Again he saw the last stand of the old bull moose, and Koskoosh dropped his head wearily upon his knees. What did it matter after all? Was it not the law of life?

Soapy Sam · 11th October 2010, 02:38 AM

Complaints aren't what they used to be.

fagin · 11th October 2010, 05:32 AM

And?

SnakeTongue · 14th October 2010, 02:40 AM

Originally Posted by fagin

And?

Cannot you read the posts and formulate your question?

Do you suffer from some kind of mental deficiency when doing questions?

SnakeTongue · 14th October 2010, 02:42 AM

Originally Posted by Soapy Sam

Complaints aren't what they used to be.

What complaints used to be?

Beerina · 14th October 2010, 05:00 AM

Originally Posted by SnakeTongue

CHILDREN OF THE FROST
THE LAW OF LIFE
(First published in McClure's Magazine Vol. 16, March, 1901)

He bowed his head in content till the last noise of the complaining snow had died away, and he knew his son was beyond recall. Then his hand crept out in haste to the wood

He thought about his son, and then he did that? Sick!

fagin · 14th October 2010, 05:29 AM

Originally Posted by SnakeTongue

Cannot you read the posts and formulate your question?

Do you suffer from some kind of mental deficiency when doing questions?

I'm still waiting for you to make a point. But your concern over my intelligence is touching.

SnakeTongue · 15th October 2010, 01:51 AM

Originally Posted by Beerina

He thought about his son, and then he did that? Sick!

What you mean? I did not understand what part you found "sick".

SnakeTongue · 15th October 2010, 01:56 AM

Originally Posted by fagin

I'm still waiting for you to make a point. But your concern over my intelligence is touching.

Death await you.

Are you prepared?

Akhenaten · 15th October 2010, 06:31 AM

Originally Posted by SnakeTongue

Death await you.

Are you prepared?

If I'm not prepared does that mean I miss out and have to keep living?

SnakeTongue · 15th October 2010, 08:03 AM

Originally Posted by Akhenaten

If I'm not prepared does that mean I miss out and have to keep living?

Means that you will suffer from pain when you realize that death is your fate.

Akhenaten · 15th October 2010, 08:19 AM

Originally Posted by SnakeTongue

Means that you will suffer from pain when you realize that death is your fate.

Please pick one:

No it doesn't. I realized decades ago that I wasn't going to live forever and it didn't even hurt a little bit.
Nah, I'm immune. 3500 years old and still going strong.

SnakeTongue · 15th October 2010, 09:27 AM

Originally Posted by Akhenaten

Please pick one:

No it doesn't. I realized decades ago that I wasn't going to live forever and it didn't even hurt a little bit.
Nah, I'm immune. 3500 years old and still going strong.

1. That means you prepared, since you understand that you are not going to live forever.

Akhenaten · 15th October 2010, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by SnakeTongue

1. That means you prepared, since you understand that you are not going to live forever.

How could you not know that?

Skwinty · 15th October 2010, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by Akhenaten

How could you not know that?

I thought everyone realised that life is a bitch and then you die...

Akhenaten · 15th October 2010, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by Skwinty

I thought everyone realised that life is a bitch and then you die...

What a pain.

Skwinty · 15th October 2010, 11:20 AM

You could spend it at the airport waving 2 red light batons around shouting cum planes cum planes

SnakeTongue · 16th October 2010, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by Skwinty

You could spend it at the airport waving 2 red light batons around shouting cum planes cum planes

Akhenaten · 16th October 2010, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by SnakeTongue

Originally Posted by Skwinty

You could spend it at the airport waving 2 red light batons around shouting cum planes cum planes

"You want to cum plane? Look at these shoes. I've only had them three weeks and the heels are worn right through . . ."

I have a feeling that people who don't have English as a first language may be at even more of a loss now.

Emet · 2nd November 2010, 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by Akhenaten

"You want to cum plane? Look at these shoes. I've only had them three weeks and the heels are worn right through . . ."

I have a feeling that people who don't have English as a first language may be at even more of a loss now.

If you cum plane, nothing happens, you might as well not bother.

I Ratant · 3rd November 2010, 10:48 AM

Society advances by those who complain about something, and do something to fix it!
Like clean water as a response to complaints about cholera.
Air conditioning as a response to summer heat and humidity.
Stop signs as a response to side impacts.
There's useful complaining, and just plain bitching about everything.

I Ratant · 3rd November 2010, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by Akhenaten

Please pick one:

No it doesn't. I realized decades ago that I wasn't going to live forever and it didn't even hurt a little bit.
Nah, I'm immune. 3500 years old and still going strong.

.
You ever been downwind of yourself?
Talk about "strong"!

SnakeTongue · 4th November 2010, 04:06 AM

Originally Posted by I Ratant

Society advances by those who complain about something, and do something to fix it!
Like clean water as a response to complaints about cholera.
Air conditioning as a response to summer heat and humidity.
Stop signs as a response to side impacts.
There's useful complaining, and just plain bitching about everything.

When "life is a bitch", I like to slap her and tell her to remain quiet!

If she complain, I give her few Uncle Sam's notes and she immediately offer the another face to be slapped.

Yes, I agree with you... Complaining is essentially the nature of life.

8th October 2010, 03:21 AM	#1
SnakeTongue Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,090	Complaining is the nature of life Originally Posted by Tricky Certainly the perception that one is being discriminated against is nearly universal. Tricky, our enigmatic existences as human beings is also a discrimination against death... I think it is part of human nature being universally against something, even if is against death. That is why people die complaining: "I do not wish to die, I did not lived enough... I wish more!" I wonder when anyone will sue death to reclaim compensation from the discrimination against life...
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8th October 2010, 06:14 AM	#3
SnakeTongue Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,090	CHILDREN OF THE FROST THE LAW OF LIFE (First published in McClure's Magazine Vol. 16, March, 1901) He bowed his head in content till the last noise of the complaining snow had died away, and he knew his son was beyond recall. Then his hand crept out in haste to the wood. It alone stood between him and the eternity that yawned in upon him. At last the measure of his life was a handful of fagots. One by one they would go to feed the fire, and just so, step by step, death would creep upon him. When the last stick had surrendered up its heat, the frost would begin to gather strength. First his feet would yield, then his hands; and the numbness would travel, slowly, from the extremities to the body. His head would fall forward upon his knees, and he would rest. It was easy. All men must die. http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/Ch...rost/life.html
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8th October 2010, 06:16 AM	#4
Darat Lackey Administrator / JREF Forum Liaison Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 64,804	And?
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8th October 2010, 06:22 AM	#5
SnakeTongue Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,090	Originally Posted by Darat And? Could you be more specific than just a short "and"?
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8th October 2010, 07:29 AM	#6
Pure Argent Certified Castlevania Fanboy Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Clock Tower Boss Room Posts: 6,259	Originally Posted by SnakeTongue Could you be more specific than just a short "and"? He's asking you to be more specific. What's your point?
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8th October 2010, 08:24 AM	#7
SnakeTongue Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,090	Originally Posted by Pure_Argent He's asking you to be more specific. What's your point? Serious... I give up... Since when "and?" is ask someone to being more specific? In first place, I did not intended to create such thread. Would the administrators destroy this thread, please? I will not waste my time trying to guess what users are expecting.
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8th October 2010, 08:34 AM	#8
alfaniner Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Sorth Dakonsin Posts: 11,399	Fine. Complain, but don't be a dick.
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8th October 2010, 08:39 AM	#9
Darat Lackey Administrator / JREF Forum Liaison Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 64,804	Originally Posted by SnakeTongue Could you be more specific than just a short "and"? You posted an extract from a link so "and" what is that meant to convey/explain or otherwise add to your point or to a reply from another Member?"
	__________________ If it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008

9th October 2010, 09:49 AM	#10
SnakeTongue Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,090	Originally Posted by Darat You posted an extract from a link so "and" what is that meant to convey/explain or otherwise add to your point or to a reply from another Member?" I understand "Complaining" from "to complain": Quote: –verb (used without object) 1. to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: Then, "Complaining is the nature of life" represent the an inherent part of every living being which "express dissatisfaction", even if against an unavoidable part of this same being: death. The pain can lead to death, but death is not pain. A living being can "express dissatisfaction" against an event and change the outcome of such event. This present a contraction in the life behaviour, since "to find fault" in death do not result in actions which dismiss the event "death" to happen. Such enigmatic and intrinsic part of our nature is described in the story of a tribe of native people travelling during the winter, in search of food. Between the tribe is Old Koskoosh, a old man which is left behind. In this event, Old Koskoosh mediate about pasts events of is life, where he remember an young hunter: Zing-ha lay with him in the snow and watched -- Zing-ha, who later became the craftiest of hunters, and who, in the end, fell through an air-hole on the Yukon. They found him, a month afterward, just as he had crawled halfway out and frozen stiff to the ice. Zing-ha know his fate: death. Fallen in a hole in the ice, he do not find satisfaction with such fate, even if he know that die frozen is painless. So he "express dissatisfaction" by trying to climb to the surface, which he knows be impossible to do. After remember this, Old Koskoosh - which is ready to accept death - express a bit of resentment about his fate: Perhaps the heart of his son might soften, and he would come back with the dogs to take his old father on with the tribe to where the caribou ran thick and the fat hung heavy upon them. The story end when Old Koskoosh is surrounded and let his head fall on his knees. Again he saw the last stand of the old bull moose, and Koskoosh dropped his head wearily upon his knees. What did it matter after all? Was it not the law of life?
	__________________ "It's possible, within text, to frame a question or undo assertions made in the text, by means of elements which are in the text, which frequently would be precisely structures that play off the rhetorical against grammatical elements." (de Man, in Moynihan 1986, at 156.)

11th October 2010, 02:38 AM	#11
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11th October 2010, 05:32 AM	#12
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14th October 2010, 02:40 AM	#13
SnakeTongue Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,090	Originally Posted by fagin And? Cannot you read the posts and formulate your question? Do you suffer from some kind of mental deficiency when doing questions?
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14th October 2010, 02:42 AM	#14
SnakeTongue Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,090	Originally Posted by Soapy Sam Complaints aren't what they used to be. What complaints used to be?
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14th October 2010, 05:00 AM	#15
Beerina Sarcastic Conqueror of Notions Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: A floating island above the clouds Posts: 23,835	Originally Posted by SnakeTongue CHILDREN OF THE FROST THE LAW OF LIFE (First published in McClure's Magazine Vol. 16, March, 1901) He bowed his head in content till the last noise of the complaining snow had died away, and he knew his son was beyond recall. Then his hand crept out in haste to the wood He thought about his son, and then he did that? Sick!
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14th October 2010, 05:29 AM	#16
fagin Muse Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 903	Originally Posted by SnakeTongue Cannot you read the posts and formulate your question? Do you suffer from some kind of mental deficiency when doing questions? I'm still waiting for you to make a point. But your concern over my intelligence is touching.
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15th October 2010, 01:51 AM	#17
SnakeTongue Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,090	Originally Posted by Beerina He thought about his son, and then he did that? Sick! What you mean? I did not understand what part you found "sick".
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15th October 2010, 01:56 AM	#18
SnakeTongue Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,090	Originally Posted by fagin I'm still waiting for you to make a point. But your concern over my intelligence is touching. Death await you. Are you prepared?
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15th October 2010, 06:31 AM	#19
Akhenaten Heretic Pharaoh Pither Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Pi-Broadford, Australia Posts: 24,683	Originally Posted by SnakeTongue Death await you. Are you prepared? If I'm not prepared does that mean I miss out and have to keep living?
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15th October 2010, 08:03 AM	#20
SnakeTongue Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,090	Originally Posted by Akhenaten If I'm not prepared does that mean I miss out and have to keep living? Means that you will suffer from pain when you realize that death is your fate.
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15th October 2010, 08:19 AM	#21
Akhenaten Heretic Pharaoh Pither Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Pi-Broadford, Australia Posts: 24,683	Originally Posted by SnakeTongue Means that you will suffer from pain when you realize that death is your fate. Please pick one: No it doesn't. I realized decades ago that I wasn't going to live forever and it didn't even hurt a little bit. Nah, I'm immune. 3500 years old and still going strong.
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15th October 2010, 09:27 AM	#22
SnakeTongue Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,090	Originally Posted by Akhenaten Please pick one: No it doesn't. I realized decades ago that I wasn't going to live forever and it didn't even hurt a little bit. Nah, I'm immune. 3500 years old and still going strong. 1. That means you prepared, since you understand that you are not going to live forever.
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15th October 2010, 10:56 AM	#23
Akhenaten Heretic Pharaoh Pither Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Pi-Broadford, Australia Posts: 24,683	Originally Posted by SnakeTongue 1. That means you prepared, since you understand that you are not going to live forever. How could you not know that?
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15th October 2010, 10:59 AM	#24
Skwinty Illuminator Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: The far side Posts: 4,972	Originally Posted by Akhenaten How could you not know that? I thought everyone realised that life is a bitch and then you die...
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15th October 2010, 11:16 AM	#25
Akhenaten Heretic Pharaoh Pither Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Pi-Broadford, Australia Posts: 24,683	Originally Posted by Skwinty I thought everyone realised that life is a bitch and then you die... What a pain.
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15th October 2010, 11:20 AM	#26
Skwinty Illuminator Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: The far side Posts: 4,972	You could spend it at the airport waving 2 red light batons around shouting cum planes cum planes
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16th October 2010, 08:58 AM	#27
SnakeTongue Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,090	Originally Posted by Skwinty You could spend it at the airport waving 2 red light batons around shouting cum planes cum planes
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16th October 2010, 09:29 AM	#28
Akhenaten Heretic Pharaoh Pither Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Pi-Broadford, Australia Posts: 24,683	Originally Posted by SnakeTongue Originally Posted by Skwinty You could spend it at the airport waving 2 red light batons around shouting cum planes cum planes "You want to cum plane? Look at these shoes. I've only had them three weeks and the heels are worn right through . . ." I have a feeling that people who don't have English as a first language may be at even more of a loss now.
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2nd November 2010, 07:54 AM	#29
Emet Illuminator Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 3,395	Originally Posted by Akhenaten "You want to cum plane? Look at these shoes. I've only had them three weeks and the heels are worn right through . . ." I have a feeling that people who don't have English as a first language may be at even more of a loss now. If you cum plane, nothing happens, you might as well not bother.
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3rd November 2010, 10:48 AM	#30
I Ratant Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 15,305	Society advances by those who complain about something, and do something to fix it! Like clean water as a response to complaints about cholera. Air conditioning as a response to summer heat and humidity. Stop signs as a response to side impacts. There's useful complaining, and just plain bitching about everything.

3rd November 2010, 10:50 AM	#31
I Ratant Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 15,305	Originally Posted by Akhenaten Please pick one: No it doesn't. I realized decades ago that I wasn't going to live forever and it didn't even hurt a little bit. Nah, I'm immune. 3500 years old and still going strong. . You ever been downwind of yourself? Talk about "strong"!

4th November 2010, 04:06 AM	#32
SnakeTongue Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,090	Originally Posted by I Ratant Society advances by those who complain about something, and do something to fix it! Like clean water as a response to complaints about cholera. Air conditioning as a response to summer heat and humidity. Stop signs as a response to side impacts. There's useful complaining, and just plain bitching about everything. When "life is a bitch", I like to slap her and tell her to remain quiet! If she complain, I give her few Uncle Sam's notes and she immediately offer the another face to be slapped. Yes, I agree with you... Complaining is essentially the nature of life.
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