Keep it with all my other books I'm not about to throw it away and besides what if I want to play a prank on someone?
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Echer123 said:
[HEADING=2]FOLLOW THE RULES OR THOU SHALT SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES[/HEADING]Simalacrum said:
(the consequences being tickled under your feet if I EVER find you!)
I wouldn't read it.
I'd give it to another guy I've not seen before, and say the exact same thing the last guy told me. If my death is still in that book, someone else would think it was their death and freak out.
I'd give it to another guy I've not seen before, and say the exact same thing the last guy told me. If my death is still in that book, someone else would think it was their death and freak out.
I would simply read the book, say only perhaps 'Hm, this is interesting,' and keep it.
Either that or I could laugh at what he says and fight the power.
Either way, really.
Either that or I could laugh at what he says and fight the power.
Either way, really.
That's me, always stickin' it to the Man.Simalacrum said:
[small]I wouldn't mind being tickled.[/small]
Open it up, take a pen and write "I shall never die" in red pen over the original words, then I'll stare at the book hesitantly for five minutes before finding a blue pen and writing "Too much hookers and blow" over the red ink.
On the other hand, (to draw from 'Big Fish') if you knew how and when you will die, you'd know that you can and will survive anything else. I reckon there'd be a lot of freedom to that. Freedom to take greater risks and such.fix-the-spade said:
read it. you will die one way or another. it satisfies one curiosity, and that should be enough. read it, toss it, live on.
Yep. This is actually touched on in a Viking myth....fix-the-spade said:
Baldur the Good, having been tormented with terrible dreams indicating that his life was in peril, told them to the assembled gods, who resolved to conjure all things to avert from him the threatened danger. Then Frigga, the wife of Odin, exacted an oath from fire and water, from iron and all other metals, from stones, trees, diseases, beasts, birds, poisons, and creeping things, that none of them would do any harm to Baldur. Odin, not satisfied with all this, and feeling alarmed for the fate of his son, determined to consult the prophetess Angerbode, a giantess, mother of Fenris, Hela, and the Milgard serpent. She was dead, and Odin was forced to seek her in Hela's dominions. This Descent of Odin forms the subject of Gray's fine ode beginning--
Uprose the king of men with speed
And saddled straight his coal-black steed.
But the other gods, feeling that what Frigga had done was quite sufficient, amused themselves with using Baldur as a mark, some hurling darts at him, some stones, while others hewed at him with their swords and battle-axes, for do what they would, none of them could harm him. And this became a favorite pastime with them, and was regarded as an honor shown to Baldur. But when Loki beheld the scene, he was sorely vexed that Baldur was not hurt. Assuming, therefore, the shape of a woman, he went to Fensalir, the mansion of Frigga. That goddess, when she saw the pretended woman, inquired of her if she knew what the gods were doing at their meetings. She replied that they were throwing darts and stones at Baldur, without being able to hurt him. "Ay," said Frigga, "neither stones, nor sticks, nor any thing else can hurt Baldur, for I have exacted an oath from all of them." "What!" exclaimed the woman. "Have all things sworn to spare Baldur?" "All things," replied Frigga, "except one little shrub that grows on the eastern side of Valhalla, and is called mistletoe, and which I thought too young and feeble to crave an oath from."
As soon as Loki heard this, he went away and, resuming his natural shape, cut off the mistletoe and repaired to the place where the gods were assembled. There he found Hodur standing apart, without partaking of the sports on account of his blindness, and going up to him, said, "Why dost thou not also throw something at Baldur?"
"Because I am blind," answered Hodur, "and see not where Baldur is, and have moreover nothing to throw."
"Come, then," said Loki, "do like the rest and show honor to Baldur by throwing this twig at him, and I will direct thy arm towards the place where he stands."
Hodur then took the mistletoe and, under the guidance of Loki, darted it at Baldur, who, pierced through and through, fell down lifeless.
In attempting to avoid fate, the Gods actually created the circumstances which lead to the death of Baldur, which they warned of, in other words - we can't avoid the future. Something is going to happen to us all at some stage, and if you try to live your life in a plastic bubble you will only suffocate.
