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Title: A complete stranger...............
Post by: wes on April 07, 2014, 10:41:06 AM
....that nobody ever heard of died today.

RIP
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: OneMoreRep on April 07, 2014, 10:43:18 AM
This is a sad day in the history of humanity.

Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?

May that individual rest in peace...

"1"
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: wes on April 07, 2014, 10:45:03 AM
Eloquently put my friend.  :'(
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: Nails on April 07, 2014, 10:45:21 AM
that poor bastard , that cubical worker will be missed
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: wes on April 07, 2014, 10:47:36 AM
Thank you for the sentiment brother Nails.  :(
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: Lustral on April 07, 2014, 10:48:34 AM
Heard about this on the news. Dropped cup of coffee I was holding, descended to my knees and wept.

I fear that in times like this I will take to the bottle.

PIP
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: wes on April 07, 2014, 10:49:45 AM
Very tough loss indeed.   :(
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Post by: _bruce_ on April 07, 2014, 10:51:21 AM
He was a good bra - the Zyzz bird of noseville shall make his crossing of Styx a save one.
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: wes on April 07, 2014, 10:53:19 AM
Thanks Bruce..........it all came so suddenly.   :'(
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: oldtimer1 on April 07, 2014, 12:19:46 PM
“That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Land Of Oz
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: anabolichalo on April 07, 2014, 12:22:07 PM
when wes dies getbig will weep
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: The True Adonis on April 07, 2014, 12:23:54 PM
Like in this song.

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Post by: the trainer on April 07, 2014, 12:42:03 PM
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/10/24/article-2474877-18F2D17A00000578-902_634x359.jpg)
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: bigmc on April 07, 2014, 12:42:43 PM
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/10/24/article-2474877-18F2D17A00000578-902_634x359.jpg)

dj181 catching some air in that pic
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: James28 on April 07, 2014, 12:54:16 PM
This is a sad day in the history of humanity.

Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?

May that individual rest in peace...

"1"

Without even looking it up, I can easily continue on from that.

'Nice day for the Crows'

'Remove your army from my land'

'I like your land, I think I'll stay'

'You can't have the whole world Agamemnon'

Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: SF1900 on April 07, 2014, 06:34:36 PM
This is a sad day in the history of humanity.

Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?

May that individual rest in peace...

"1"


Ernest Becker talked about the dual nature of man. We are extraordinary beings who can ponder the mysteries of the universe, yet we are tied to a decaying, rotting body. Quite the dilemma.

"Excreting is the curse that threatens madness because it shows man his abject finitude, his physicalness, the likely unreality of his hopes and dreams. But even more immediately, it represents man's utter bafflement at the sheer non-sense of creation: to fashion the sublime miracle of the human face, the mysterium tremendum of radiant feminine beauty, the veritable goddesses that beautiful women are; to bring this out of nothing, out of the void, and make it shine in noonday; to take such a miracle and put miracles again within it, deep in the mystery of the eyes that peer out-the eye that gave even the dry Darwin a chill: to do all this, and to combine it with an anus that shits! It is too much. Nature mocks us, and poets live in torture." Ernest Becker

“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“Man is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body that once belonged to a fish and still carries the gill-marks to prove it. His body is a material fleshy casing that is alien to him in many ways—the strangest and most repugnant way being that it aches and bleeds and will decay and die. Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with atowering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

"Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order to blindly and dumbly rot and disappear forever. It is a terrifying dilemma to be in and to have to live with. The lower animals are, of course, spared this painful contradiction, as they lack a symbolic identity and the self-consciousness that goes with it. They merely act and move reflexively as they are driven by their instincts. If they pause at all, it is only a physical pause; inside they are anonymous, and even their faces have no name. They live in a world without time, pulsating, as it were, in a state of dumb being. This is what has made it so simple to shoot down whole herds of buffalo or elephants. The animals don't know that death is happening and continue grazing placidly while others drop alongside them. The knowledge of death is reflective and conceptual, and animals are spared it. They live and they disappear with the same thoughtlessness: a few minutes of fear, a few seconds of anguish, and it is over. But to live a whole lifetime with the fate of death haunting one's dreams and even the most sun-filled days—that's something else.” ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98˘.”
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: wes on April 07, 2014, 07:18:11 PM
"You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands.

A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke.

In Vietnam his job was to dispose of enemy personnel.

To kill! Period! Win by attrition.

Well Rambo was the best"
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: wolfrittner on April 08, 2014, 02:59:58 AM
....that nobody ever heard of died today.

RIP
Hahahaha! RIP!
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: DroppingPlates on April 08, 2014, 03:04:17 AM
My condolences, brother Wes.
I hope he lived a good life.
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: Wolfox on April 08, 2014, 03:16:03 AM
I might have to do another retirement thread.
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: hench on April 08, 2014, 07:43:23 AM
Deep shit
In the end, what is the point...?


Ernest Becker talked about the dual nature of man. We are extraordinary beings who can ponder the mysteries of the universe, yet we are tied to a decaying, rotting body. Quite the dilemma.

"Excreting is the curse that threatens madness because it shows man his abject finitude, his physicalness, the likely unreality of his hopes and dreams. But even more immediately, it represents man's utter bafflement at the sheer non-sense of creation: to fashion the sublime miracle of the human face, the mysterium tremendum of radiant feminine beauty, the veritable goddesses that beautiful women are; to bring this out of nothing, out of the void, and make it shine in noonday; to take such a miracle and put miracles again within it, deep in the mystery of the eyes that peer out-the eye that gave even the dry Darwin a chill: to do all this, and to combine it with an anus that shits! It is too much. Nature mocks us, and poets live in torture." Ernest Becker

“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“Man is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body that once belonged to a fish and still carries the gill-marks to prove it. His body is a material fleshy casing that is alien to him in many ways—the strangest and most repugnant way being that it aches and bleeds and will decay and die. Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with atowering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

"Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order to blindly and dumbly rot and disappear forever. It is a terrifying dilemma to be in and to have to live with. The lower animals are, of course, spared this painful contradiction, as they lack a symbolic identity and the self-consciousness that goes with it. They merely act and move reflexively as they are driven by their instincts. If they pause at all, it is only a physical pause; inside they are anonymous, and even their faces have no name. They live in a world without time, pulsating, as it were, in a state of dumb being. This is what has made it so simple to shoot down whole herds of buffalo or elephants. The animals don't know that death is happening and continue grazing placidly while others drop alongside them. The knowledge of death is reflective and conceptual, and animals are spared it. They live and they disappear with the same thoughtlessness: a few minutes of fear, a few seconds of anguish, and it is over. But to live a whole lifetime with the fate of death haunting one's dreams and even the most sun-filled days—that's something else.” ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98˘.”

Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: El Diablo Blanco on April 08, 2014, 08:31:55 AM
Every stranger is known by someone.
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: DroppingPlates on April 08, 2014, 08:35:05 AM
Every stranger is known by someone.

True!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: Knooger on April 08, 2014, 08:43:13 AM
....that nobody ever heard of died today.

RIP

Pics of his mom?
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: no one on April 08, 2014, 10:16:55 AM
"You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands.

A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke.

In Vietnam his job was to dispose of enemy personnel.

To kill! Period! Win by attrition.

Well Rambo ESFtiness was the best"

fixed.
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: wes on April 08, 2014, 10:26:04 AM
:D
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Post by: Natural Man on April 08, 2014, 10:33:29 AM
was he known as "wes" around here by any chance?
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Post by: manuelsonn on April 08, 2014, 11:56:57 PM
it s been one day and i miss him as much as yesterday. I thought time will flush away his memory, but no, i miss him more than yesterday.
Title: Re: A complete stranger...............
Post by: Mitch on April 09, 2014, 12:16:40 AM
His front double biceps will never be forgotten. :'(
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Post by: BigCyp on April 09, 2014, 02:22:04 AM
I am literally crying tears on my keyboard reading this, I can't believe he is gone  :'(