One more before you die.

[Wabbit]

lol I think we are getting our wires crossed

We are actually in agreement. That's what *I* was saying and hence "or am I missing something profound?"

 

[Freya]

lol I think we are getting our wires crossed

We are actually in agreement. That's what *I* was saying and hence "or am I missing something profound?"

I must be more ill than I thought. I'm tempted to watercrystal out the entirity of what I said.

 

[mr_michel]

1001 arabian nights would be inspirational while waiting for execution

 

[Crystal]

I must be more ill than I thought. I'm tempted to watercrystal out the entirity of what I said.

Freya, you fabulous wench! you knew i loved you. but give me a break! Those philosophy and death thing make me sick!

Cheers, dear.

 

[Freya]

Can't help it, oh watery one - your type - edit/delete trick is jolly useful when you're having a mental/fuzzy moment.

 

[Cathy C]

I'd read something mindless and funny and make them promise that I could keep reading instead of being blindfolded. A well-written word is the best last thing I could see!

 

[True@1stLight]

lol I think we are getting our wires crossed

We are actually in agreement. That's what *I* was saying and hence "or am I missing something profound?"

The argument is slightly more complicated.
I have to run to class but I'll try and put the jist of it up at a later time.

 

[Wabbit]

Ok, thank you

 

[FAB]

Getting back to the intent of the post, I would say the book would be "Five People you meet in Heaven". Wonderful book that makes you think, not so much on what comes next, as to what you make of life in the time you have.

 

[Wolhay]

This thread looks like advice for selfmurderers.

 

[Crystal]

Sorry for distracting from the topic, sillywabbit.

Actually don't want to read anything before I die (Do I have enough time to finish a book?). Just stay in peace, may be I might think about the people on the bookforum, especially this evil-charmed Freya.

enjoy yourtime, guys and gals.

 

[Wabbit]

Just think about a bouncing blue bunny wabbit before you die and everything will be ok lol

 

[True@1stLight]

I didn't say he was right did I? I just said you were probably missing his main points. Besides which, I thought the whole point of the philosophical clap-trap was that there is no right answer. I mean, is a table really a table?

Analytic truths seem to be hard to deny. And we certainly take many things to be knowledge, so we must believe there a certain amount of things we can determine as right.

 

[Sun-SSS]

Dying to be Dead

I think I'd throw the book away and watch Seinfeld on TV, and hope they'd hurry up and execute me before I had to watch too much.

 

[Delta_doh!]

Last Book.... Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier



Currently Reading: The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

 

[Delta_doh!]

DOH! Now see what you done... SILLYWABBIT!
Have since posting above, dug out and am now reading.
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier besides what I was already reading
Grunt! FEEL OK THOUGH!

 

[novella]

Actually don't want to read anything before I die Just stay in peace, may be I might think about the people on the bookforum, especially this evil-charmed Freya.

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You are the only one on this thread who makes any real sense, watercrystal. Why spend one's last hours reading a book? I would write a book. Write a letter. Plant a tree. Do something that will leave a legacy. Reading others' work is fun and instructive, but it's no substitute for craft and production, which in my experience are far more joyful and emotionally engaging. What would Shakespeare have done?

 

[Crystal]

--- 1)Why spend one's last hours reading a book?

---2) I would write a book. Write a letter. Plant a tree. Do something that will leave a legacy. Reading others' work is fun and instructive, but it's no substitute for craft and production, which in my experience are far more joyful and emotionally engaging.

---3)What would Shakespeare have done?

1) Exactly. why stil bother with others' words. why can't we embrace those last precious hours to ourselves.

2) I liked your idea of planting a tree, which might carry some of you, which might help to sustain your life in its root and leaves. you might even regenerate in its life. (if you can understand what i am trying to say.)

Writing a letter would be blissful and be just like a miracle to the letter-receivers.

3) don't know what Shakespeare would have done. maybe he would have kissed all his beloved? and say kind words to them?

good day,

 

[True@1stLight]

You are the only one on this thread who makes any real sense, watercrystal. Why spend one's last hours reading a book? I would write a book. Write a letter. Plant a tree. Do something that will leave a legacy. Reading others' work is fun and instructive, but it's no substitute for craft and production, which in my experience are far more joyful and emotionally engaging. What would Shakespeare have done?

I was never under the impression that this was our last moments of life, simply that we were able to read only one more book before we die. It's not as if when the book is finished your life is extinguished.

In any case, even if it was my last moments, I'm not sure I really care what Shakespere would have done. It's as irrelevant as what Einstein, Mill, Locke, or Da Vinci would have done. The question pertains to what you would do. Although there are certain humans worth taking lessons from, I hardly would want to mimic my last moments based on what someone else did. Nothing is really origional if you do it for reasons other than your own, so whatever it is that I would do, would be what I wanted. Regardless of what that is, it would be siginificantly more spontaneous than fulfilling than following someone elses lead.

So why not spend ones last hours reading a book if that's what one wishes to do? Not everyone needs to scramble to leave a legacy, or make sure their last moment is creative. Whatever the decision, it doesn't necessarily have to be productive. I'd rather lay myself down in some lush grash and watch the sky go by than paint a picture of it in my last moments. It doesn't seem to be of any less value.....bah, I've got to go mid-thought....class. See ya.

 

[novella]

I was never under the impression that this was our last moments of life, simply that we were able to read only one more book before we die. It's not as if when the book is finished your life is extinguished.

Oh, see I thought that it was about the end of your life. Previous posts seem to take this assumption . . .

In any case, even if it was my last moments, I'm not sure I really care what Shakespere would have done.

So why not spend ones last hours reading a book if that's what one wishes to do? Not everyone needs to scramble to leave a legacy, or make sure their last moment is creative. Whatever the decision, it doesn't necessarily have to be productive. I'd rather lay myself down in some lush grash and watch the sky go by than paint a picture of it in my last moments.

The question about Shakespeare is rhetorical, not literal. I really don't care what Shakespeare would do either. Who knows, he might have made a huge fry-up and sloshed it down with pints of ale and keeled over happy. Maybe he worked till the end.

I agree completely with the rest of what you say here. Just what I would do in my last hours, I hope, would be something creative and personal, not passive and impersonal. That is not prescriptive. Of course someone else might prefer to read The DaVinci Code or watch some TV or make sure all their piles of possessions are neatly ordered. Watching the clouds float by doesn't sound so bad, though.

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