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Quote from: El duderino_ on Today at 02:47:30 PM

After a massive surgery last year…. 8 March 2022 will remembered when losing my best friend.

That's all I've got Dude, so sorry for your loss...

It's a cruel joke. Man's perfect companion, the epidimy of loyalty love and adoration. Play, fight, eat, or sleep always by our side. No better friend, except... only 1 sixth of our average lifespan.
There are no words that can ease the pain you feel, only time can dull its sharp edge. But know this, the man who has never felt sorrow is a man who was never truly loved. Your pain is proof positive of his love for you, and yours for him. Now his pain is over but the love carries on.

First of all, i feel very sorry for your loss, El_duderino.
I grew up with dogs, i had one myself, had two girlfriends with dog(s), one of them i married. (EDIT: The girlfriend, of course!)
Wonderful creatures, great partners, best friends.
As long as your pal will be remembered, he's still kind of alive. In your memories. Still, very hard to let them go. I hope he didn't have to suffer in his final times.

My way to cope with the lifespan issue is that i try to become aware, as often as possible, that a dog lives every second of its life to the fullest. Every moment could be the start of the next adventure. Putting so much energy into living a life so intense, results in a much more "dense" life, while as a human, you are mostly raised and educated to live a "flat" life, fulfilling some purpose in a society, like a gearwheel. Until you get replaced. Dogs are none like that. They have a distinct, important role in their pack, may it only be as small as a pack of two. A dog can be your master at life, when you allow it.

Quote from: BobLawblaw on Today at 04:17:25 PM

Quote from: Copetech on Today at 04:14:12 PM

It's a cruel joke.

Existence is a cruel joke.

Then you get to die at the end, go to Heaven, and have a very impassioned eternal debate with God about what the fucking point of all that was, anyway.

Fucking stupid space rock...

Bob, don't overthink it. A human life is precious, scarce (most people only get one) and thus of infinite value. It's a gift, so fucking treat it like a gift.
Consider the probabilities, in the great chaos of existence, in this place of the universe (or multiverse), spits out a solar system as the home of a stupid space rock with a life expectation like a drop of water - compared to the oceans - to create a time slice with perfect conditions to form an environment where carbon molecules bind to each other with the help of other elements and create complex, living creatures that learn to walk, talk, read/write, become aware and express their emotions, originating in a massive organic supercomputer, reduced to the size of half a football and giving you this experience to connect with other human beings, in real life, as well as in this here space basically consisting of ones and zeros. The chance of us witnessing the birth and evolution of Bitcoin, a once-in-a-lifetime-of-a-stupid-space-rock-opportunity? Almost NIL! Acknowlegde how fucking lucky you are. Everyone of us should. This is a way to express our gratefulness.

And heaven, my dear, as well as hell are just states of perception, or states of being. The genius mind of Nietzsche figured that out, so you better acknowledge this as a truth.
You can almost go nuts through the many forms of happiness, as well as through the many forms of pain. Just let that sink in, i'm sure you will get it.

By the way: Thanks to the church for manipulating the teachings of this enlightened dude called "Jesus", to control their followers with fear, uncertainty and doubt, when instead they should guide them to reach the state of "heaven" in their one life, like their original master intended. So fuck the church, i can't repeat it often enough. (EDIT: Better praise Albert Hofmann, by the way, which discovered a great opportunity to sneak peek into this).

It's our stupid, displeased ego that despises this wonderful state of being as a cruel joke. Don't fall for that, or you will be stay most time of your life in the "hell"-state.
There's no more chance, and you don't know when it's over. Make something out of it. Don't let your stupid ever-ranting ego make you just throw it away.

A dog has no ego. It must be a wonderful life. They will teach you, if you let them.
Sometimes i thought they want to teach us, as hard as they can, but we just seem not to be able to understand them.
You wanted to get dogs on the farm, didn't you? Wink

(edited a bit, via multiple takes)

Started thinking as I read your post, isn't " fulfilling some purpose in a society, like a gearwheel" and "have a distinct, important role in their pack" the same thing? and isn't that why dogs fit so good in human packs.