Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Last thoughts

In the book Our America, LeAlan and Lloyd thought about how a 5 year old boy must feel to fall from the 14th floor of a builden. So i wanted to no if you where the falling down from the 14th floor, what would be your last thoughts?Do you think you would even have time to think? Do you think you would die before you hit the grown?
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  1. monJuly 28, 2009 at 10:42 AM

    I'm also reading Our America and already past that part of the book, but i was thinking about, how that's completely horrible for someone to do, and if i was that child in that moment, i honestly think that, nothing would come to my mind at that moment because i would be in shock, scared, and screaming my head off, and it happens so fast that, you probably don't even have time to take your last breath. Now i'll probably be thinking about that question all day.

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  2. martiniJuly 28, 2009 at 10:46 AM

    my final thoughts would be how much evreyone is going to miss me and all that im gonna is whne i die then i would ask god to forgive me of all of my sins .. see i have this preset notion that right before i die that i'll repent so i can go to heaven cuz my life mos def doesnt measure up to what it should be in gods eyes so i would be happy if i had enough time to fall from the 14th floor to get things right before i go

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  3. AnonymousJuly 28, 2009 at 10:50 AM

    Man I would freak the fuck out. I'm already terrified of heights for that exact reason so I'm not sure what would happen if I actually fell one day. I think on the way down I would be thinking "this is EXACTLY why I'm afraid of heights" or something like that.

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  4. reeceJuly 28, 2009 at 10:51 AM

    i'm screaming ahhhhhhhh! and i'm thinkin this shit gon hurt

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  5. monJuly 28, 2009 at 10:52 AM

    Question to Martin, but even if your falling from the 14th floor from a building do you really think you would be thinking about all of that? cause i would be thinking about pretty much nothing or how i'm about to be killed in 5 seconds.

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  6. martiniJuly 28, 2009 at 10:53 AM

    yea i definelty will u would be suprised were my mind goes in dier situations like this i mean i've Been in dangerous situations on more than one occasion so i kinda am use to being able to think clearly when they come up

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  7. SeXY DaNcEr <3July 28, 2009 at 10:53 AM

    i think if i was falling down 14th flights i would not be thinking of anything else but how can i save myslef, if thats even possible. maybe pray that someone is gonna be there when i hit the ground, or fire men or something.. oh yeah, and scream!!

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  8. monJuly 28, 2009 at 10:56 AM

    Ya i've been in plenty situations where i was about to be in a serious accident or in a really dangerous situation, and i honestly never thought about ANYTHING, nothing comes to my mind its just blank, I'm already scared of death as it is, thats my number one fear in life, so i know for a fact when i come to a near death experience I'm not going to be thinking about anything, and that's the sad part...

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  9. martiniJuly 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM

    but you know the reason your not thinking of anytyhing is because your allowing your instincts to guide you at the pioint its a natural human reflex. but 14 floors is really high hun you would defnitlty have enough time to think about something you probley wouykld be crying or something and like by the time you reach the 10th or 5 th foor have your last thoughts if your not horse from screaming you might scream ur thoughts

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  10. EGDAGRJuly 28, 2009 at 11:02 AM

    I'm thinking that I'd be bummed with not accomplishing what I expected to in my life. I'm not really a fan of religion, but it's possible that I would be concerned with the afterlife as I descend.

    I'd probably yell out that I wanted to be cryogenically frozen too.

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  11. Jimmy BobbyJuly 28, 2009 at 11:03 AM

    i think those last seconds would be the longest seconds of your life. i do not know if in the book the kid did this intentionally but if so i think he would have had time to regret jumping off. and i would hope if something like that happened the Donnie Darco effect would go into place-- that means that you would keep living as if the experience never happened.

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  12. BECJuly 28, 2009 at 11:05 AM

    SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTT......splat

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  13. monJuly 28, 2009 at 11:05 AM

    well.. everyone deals with their situations differently MARTIN, some people will have plenty to think of some people will have nothing to think of, even if your falling from the 14th floor... i don't know, i really don't wanna think about death right now lol

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  14. martiniJuly 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM

    lol TOO BAD

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  15. =Texas=July 28, 2009 at 11:12 AM

    BEC- HAHAHAHAHAHA! me 2!

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  16. Pity Reached by SoundJuly 29, 2009 at 9:26 AM

    This is an interesting question in the contemporary context of art. I've been reading some theorists who seem to think that death is "making a comeback" in art. I'm a little surprised because I've always assumed that death or the idea of death would naturally be in most art and I never assumed it had gone anywhere to come back. What do you guys notice about this theme in art? What do you notice about the way Lloyd and LeAlan, perhaps our generation, deals with death? Have we changed the way we approach this very human and universal experience?

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  17. AnonymousJuly 29, 2009 at 10:59 AM

    My final thoughts would be a flash back of my whole life.Sometimes your life flash so fast in front of you that you don't have a chance to think its just....splat!

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