Quotations and Literature Forum

Marrow donation, doesn't feel good, and it's useful too.

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

If given the chance to donate marrow in a completely painless way, would you choose it? Why or why not?

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The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

I'd choose to do it in a painless way. Why? Because it's painless for goodness sake!

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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
~Bertrand Russell

Thanks for making my point.

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The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

Conversely, would you choose not to donate marrow because it's so painful?

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"I learned to stick up to myself today, you're not angry are you?"

What point?

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

you have to donate even if its painful guys... its someone's life at stake...

Oh, no! The hypothetical John Doe with leukemia died!

What shall we do now that he is gone?

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Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert.

Oh well..

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Does this mean that I don't have to answer any more hypothetical questions?

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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
~Bertrand Russell

No, but it means it is YOUR FAULT HE DIED! Had you not hesitated, our dear John would still be alive. You should be ashamed of yourself.

I really love hypothetical drama. Prefer it endlessly to the real thing.

Now, to the matter at hand. Hypothetically speaking (and I hope that I never have to face the real deal), I'd donate marrow, sure. If it's someone close. A dear friend, a family member, a partner or spouse, it's all good. It might hurt like hell, but the pain of losing them would comparably be much worse and more long-lasting.

So it's still a matter of avoiding and minimizing pain, when you look at it that way.

Only nutjobs consciously run towards pain, or so I've come to believe. If there's no trade-off, what's the point?


So finally, to answer the original question- no I wouldn't. Because that would mean that I'm doing something wrong. If you ain't fucking up and getting burnt occasionally, that means you ain't striving, and that's a sad, sad fact.

Of course, if you mean it in the sense that if I could magically whisk away all the consequences of my fuckups, breakups, losses and defeats, would I do it?

Then my answer would still be no. Sorry. We try to avoid pain, but it's there to teach us a lesson, every time we get hurt. It toughens us up, if we're smart. Gives us a thicker hide and a cooler head. And that's always a plus.



And if you're asking us if we would like to live a pain-free life in the sense of a life filled only with joy and butterflies and pink elephants...
Well, the Christians beat you to that concept. It's called heaven and you go there when you die and I'm happy to state that I'm not fucking dead yet.

che

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Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert.

Depends on the degree of pain and suffering!

Life serves most of us a fair number of hurts, mistakes, griefs, losses etc and we generally cope and learn from them, get tougher, get wiser, get over it. Without those sort of happenings life would be a bit bland and maybe we'd appreciate the good parts less.

But, if you're talking about real constant extreme physical pain, abject poverty, constant abuse etc. we'd be crazy if we didn't prefer to avoid it.

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e e cummings (1894 - 1962)

Of course. But not all of it. That would be also crazy.

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Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert.