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⌈ Secret Post #4726 ⌋

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Dream trips

[philstar22]

If you had all the money you needed and a week or two to go anywhere you wanted, where would you go and why?

How about if you had six months of time and there would be no consequences for taking that long a break from your life? Where would you like to go on a longer trip?

For me, first one would be Hawaii. That's my first vacation goal when I have the money. Beaches plus volcanoes plus historical sites equals perfection to me.

For the second one, I'd take a train trip across Europe. Visit all the countries at a leisurely pace. Just enjoy myself and the scenery. I love train rides. I'd start in St. Petersburg, end up in Spain, then take a boat to the UK before heading home.

Re: Dream trips

[kaijinscendre]

For a week or two, I would go to Japan. I have just always wanted to visit it.

If I had six months, I'd go on a very long tour of Europe. I'd visit every single place I've ever wanted to. I especially want to visit Germany/Austria during Christmas season to see the markets.

Re: Dream trips

[(Anonymous)]

Two week trip - Do a while in New Orleans and Louisiana and Memphis eating crazy good food and listening to music, then maybe drive up the Mississippi to St Louis and some of the rest of the Midwest, either Chicago or Minneapolis.

Six months - do Europe, yeah. Start in Berlin and visit my friend who lives there, do Vienna because I've always wanted to, northern Italy, southern France, end up in Paris. Just as leisurely as humanly possible.

Re: Dream trips

[(Anonymous)]

I'd love to travel across the US in a sleeper train car, but I think I'd want to make some stops and explore places I haven't been (plus, I'd have to stop and change trains in Chicago or somewhere anyway). With stops, a week or two wouldn't be enough, but 6 months is too long.

Six months is too long to spend anywhere without something to DO - a job, an educational thing, a volunteer opportunity... if I had something interesting to do, I wouldn't care so much about where I was. I'm the kind of person who likes to visit tiny local museums and random parks and hiking trails and restaurant and whatever.

Re: Dream trips

[(Anonymous)]

It would take me half a day just to get to an international airport, so for the week I'd go to New Zealand, because it's the closest option, and it seems like a nice place.

Re: Dream trips

[(Anonymous)]

If it's a week or two, then I'd probably go for a city + daytrip combination... Paris, London, Prague, Barcelona, Osaka...

For six months...oh, that's tough. I'm not sure I'd like to be traveling and away from home for that long even if I could because I'd miss my own house and my bed. But six months would be an amazing around the world trip.

Re: Dream trips

[(Anonymous)]

A week or two? Probably NYC to catch up on shit I've missed.

Six months (actually a year for me), I'd go to Japan because I've always wanted to experience the seasons in Japan.

Re: Dream trips

[rosehiptea]

I'd go back to Munich again to visit my friend. And I would go to Berlin for a few days also this time, maybe with my friend if she wanted to go. I may actually do this if I can save up enough money.

For six months... I'd go several places. First Oregon to visit my son (which I am going to do for real next year I hope), then New York, then England, then Germany and other places in Europe. (I might go to Hawaii for a little bit too - I've only been there once and it was when I was a kid.)

Re: Dream trips

[(Anonymous)]

Couple of weeks, and assuming the fires end eventually? I'd go back to Australia. It would be nice to see it again without my fucking ex lurking in the background. (He was not, objectively, the worst part of Australia last time around, but only because John Howard and deeply entrenched institutional racism are things.)

With six months, I'm not sure. Maybe tour the Americas... It would be neat to start in Alaska and wander to Machu Picchu, swing west to the Galapagos Islands on my down.

Re: Dream trips

[tabaqui]

Portugal, specifically Madeira, but also the mainland. I have family there i've never met (we chat on FB), so i really want to meet them and see where my dad's side of the family came from!

Six months....oh, man. Scotland, then jump over to Finland and Norway, down to Spain and then Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Kenya....Vietnam, Japan, New Zealand.... Just hop all over.

How scared are you of the afterlife?

[kribban]

I'm a baby atheist, and I *want* there to be no hell/afterlife, but I'm still scared of it. It scares the wits out of me that there's no *proof* of annihilation.

Re: How scared are you of the afterlife?

[philstar22]

I used to be terrified both of the concept of death and the concept of eternal life and heaven and all that. I've mostly gotten over those fears, but they still sometimes cause me anxiety. I mostly avoid thinking about it. I do have beliefs about it. But I don't dwell on them.

Re: How scared are you of the afterlife?

[kaijinscendre]

I don't think there is an afterlife. If there is, nothing I can do to change where I go except for living a good life. If I get sent to Hell for any of the stupid shit in the Bible, Heaven can't be too great of a place.

Re: How scared are you of the afterlife?

[(Anonymous)]

My attitude is that the lack of an afterlife is just a fact. I find the idea of an afterlife just, like, absurd. So it's just a question of getting on with it.

Re: How scared are you of the afterlife?

[(Anonymous)]

Not at all. Christian eschatology is an incoherent mess, so it's about like being afraid of a squared circle.

Re: How scared are you of the afterlife?

[(Anonymous)]

I’m not scared of the concept of an afterlife, but I’m terrified of the idea of ceasing to exist. I’ve been an agnostic/atheist pretty much as long as I can remember; my parents didn’t raise me to be religious and even when I prayed a bit as a preteen because some of my friends did, it was basically just “ifthere’s an afterlife, I hope my dead family members and pets are happy there.”

I think the best way to torture me forever if there was an afterlife would be to actually torture me for awhile and then say the only way to make it stop would be to stop existing entirely. But it’s kind of a dumb fear because when I die and stop existing, which is what I believe will happen, it’s not like there’s gonna be a “me” who’s aware of it.

Re: How scared are you of the afterlife?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really think about it. I was raised Christian (Protestant to be exact) and the whole idea of hell was one of the many, many reasons why I became agnostic, then atheist. But I don't think I ever truly believed in it as a place, much less a place of fire and torture. I think that death is simply going to be like shutting off the lights, no pain or consciousness. Like before you were born, bookending your life.

Mind you, a great many Christians also don't believe in hell as a place of torture and hellfire, despite the Bible emphatically saying it is, and that people who don't toe the line suffer in it. They don't like the idea of a supposedly merciful God doing that to people, so they're in denial about hell and make up all sorts of comforting things like oh, hell is being away from God, or it's like limbo lying in the grave, etc. It's not REALLY torture, despite the very clear descriptions of it in the Bible!

Like I said, I'm an atheist now.

Re: How scared are you of the afterlife?

[(Anonymous)]

I’m as atheist as it gets. There is not .001% of me that believes in an afterlife or ever has.

I find this question interesting because the focus seems so fundamentally backwards to me. What’s terrifying isn’t the afterlife, it’s the finality and nothingness of death, and the certainty that it’s inevitable. It’s a cliff’s edge up there in the distance, ahead of us all, and the tracks are out.

Frankly, an afterlife would be a tremendous relief to me. What a lovely thought, that one’s existence isn’t the claustrophobically finite thing it actually is, and that our loved ones aren’t irretrievably gone.

Re: How scared are you of the afterlife?

[(Anonymous)]

Not at all. The good thing about atheism that comes with time, you gradually loosen up your mental holds on old superstitions. Don't beat yourself up for not "getting it" right away, it really does take time. Beliefs are like habits, they don't just vanish overnight with zero withdrawal symptoms. You'll get there.

"Proof" is a tall order. The real problem with the afterlife as described in any major religion is that there is also no proof that it exists. I'm comfortable with death being the end, but if there is something else out there, I feel like it hasn't been accurately conceived of or described anywhere on earth. The nature of heavens and hells is entirely dependent on the god involved, so if you've already rejected the existence of the god, or all gods, then there's nothing left to say that the afterlife designated by said god can continue exist without it. How can there be an eternal punishment if there is no god to do the punishing?

Take what you can to heart, but give yourself time to unlearn what you have learned.

Re: How scared are you of the afterlife?

[(Anonymous)]

I guess in recent years, I've lost my fear of it. I've moved closer to the belief that when you die, you cease to exist (well, obviously, you'll exist as a corpse or ashes for a while but you'll have zero consciousness/soul). Oddly, I do believe residual things can be left behind. I just don't think you go to some fluffy gated cloud place or get tossed in a pit of hellfire.

Re: How scared are you of the afterlife?

[rosehiptea]

I'm scared of there not being an afterlife, even though I know there probably isn't. The idea that I won't exist anymore scares the hell out of me.

I'm also afraid of being punished for my sins in the afterlife, a holdover from when I was an Orthodox Jew, but not afraid enough that I want to become religious again.

Re: How scared are you of the afterlife?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not scared of it in the slightest because I don't believe it exists. I think that when we die, we simply stop existing, which I don't find all that terrifying either because it would be like going to sleep but then just never waking up.

What scares me about death is not death itself or any of the things surrounding it, but the idea that I might die before I accomplish all of the things I want to do in my life. I'm not scared of dying, I'm scared of dying without doing everything I want to while I'm alive.

Writers, tell us how you do it! (inspired by 2)

[(Anonymous)]

Do you write in chronological order or do you write the most important scenes first? Do you outline your plot or wing it? Do you like doing research, or do you prefer to make it up as you go along?

Which recent* shows did you think had great ideas but poor execution?

[(Anonymous)]

Inspired by Secret 5.

*or not so recent