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moosetwin@FMHY @lemmy.world

2y ago

Armor for Sleep: What To Do When You Are Dead

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This is great stuff. Would have come in handy last year
- Were you dead at the time?
  
  Yeah but I stumbled into this vacancy

My phone must have been clicking on things in my pocket. I sat down finally today and opened my phone and this post was in full screen displaying. Had to do a double take

man, haven’t thought about them in a long time, used to love that record. Car Underwater was a jam
- They’re going on tour this winter with The Early November and The Spill Canvas

More please. New fetish unlocked
Edit: more info on source: https://imgur.com/a/eRCYz#kR802gV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhattoDoWhenYouAreDead
there's also a reddit thread, but i'm not linking it...
- If you’re interested in another album based around this concept, “I Didn’t Mean To Haunt You” by Quadeca is a really good one written from the perspective of a ghost.
  
  thank you for the suggestion. honestly, just want more infographics on the theme. a graphical "handbook for the recently deceased".

What a great album. I spun this one a ton back in the day. Pretty sure I still have a physical copy somewhere.

armor for sleep, the band?

Funny thing, fear is a heavily biological phenomenon, to keep your body safe from harm. It's very chemical-based. If you have a soul of some sort, it would lack a lot of the mechanisms like adrenaline and cortisol that we normally associate with the sensation of fear.
It would have no real reason to be afraid of anything. What are you going to hurt, its feelings?
- It does state that bright lights can change you, though I suppose that isn't the same as harm.
- Yeah you need glands for that
- But all emotions are chemical processes in our brain, and vision is a product of our eyes, and hearing is from our ears, etc. So if a make believe ghost can experience those other things, why not fear as well?
  
  Most of those are far more undiscernable than fear. Fear is very simplistic, and people are very familiar with its component pieces if they consider it at any length.
  Most other emotions are more indescribable, and harder to explain mechanistically. People are familiar with what adrenaline, and sometimes cortisol feel like though, specifically. So it's easier to pin those down into bodily processes and leave the rest to a belief in a soul, if one wishes.
  Basically, until a specific mechanism for something is pinned down, and communicated in a way that people can understand, it can be filled in with various forms of magic if one wishes. This is just personal preference and freedom of religion. Fear is easy, it's a simple, fairly barebones emotion. Is love easy though?

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