10-15-2010, 12:00 AM
To me, the only quality that makes life interesting is feeling. Lose feeling and life is boring (which is still a feeling perhaps). Have a bad feeling and life is sad, miserable, have a good feeling and life is happiness, bliss. Feeling is so alive. The proclamation "I am" is really about feeling. Yes, it could be looked as i in the social sense, but beyond that there is still an awareness of an experience which is felt. I see no point in living if nothing can be felt. I also see no point in living if all that is felt is pain, I'd rather face annihilation in such a case. Annihilation is portrayed as so ominous, but really, what is so bad about it when you really think about it? Its really comforting in a way. Fear is the only ominous experience, and pain is the only unpleasant experience. From these arises avoidance, perhaps the creation of social i as a result.