Comments on: Time slices

By: McGehee

McGehee — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:47:25 +0000

…especially since it also implies its inverse, immunity to despair-mongering.

Of course, to good old homemade despair maybe not so much with the immunity.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:45:46 +0000

To me “immunity to reassurance” implies an awareness that the reassurer doesn’t know any better than I do what’s going to happen.

Perfectly healthy thing, I’d say.

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:34:55 +0000

Most of your introspectives really resonate with me – “immunity to reassurance.” Experience? Pessimism? Realism? All of the above? Does it matter? The results are the same – I don’t trust unbridled optimism either.

Have we put our lives on time delay in order to pass judgment on a situation more accurately? To see how it starts to unfold – and at least sense a familiar pattern? Fascinating, to steal a quote. Does that make me a part-person? That apparently requires a major commitment to obsessiveness and fanaticism – something that requires more effort than I’m willing to give.

Good brain food for a Sunday afternoon, Chaz.