nd you come across a tortoise. You turn it over, letting it's soft underside bake in the hot sun. you see it kicking, but you're not helping it. Why aren't you helping it?
So you give me/us a situation that pretty much contradicts with my own morals and ethics (I think others heres too) to not torment animals and then you wanna know why I/we don't help the poor thing?
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I'm not helping it since I'm about to eat the stupid animal since I'm stuck in the middle of a desert with limited access to carbohydrates, protein or water.
By not helping it -- in effect, by watching it die -- I assume the persona of Death. In doing so, I momentarily transcend my own Death Terror and happily exist within an illusion of godlike immortality: what every ego unconsciously desires.
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Re: You're alone in the middle of the desert
Holden: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...
Leon: What one?
Holden: What?
Leon: What desert?
Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical.
Leon: But, how come I'd be there?
Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you...
Leon: Tortoise? What's that?
Holden: [irritated by Leon's interruptions] You know what a turtle is?
Leon: Of course!
Holden: Same thing.
Leon: I've never seen a turtle... But I understand what you mean.
Holden: You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon.
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
Leon: [angry at the suggestion] What do you mean, I'm not helping?
Holden: I mean: you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?
[Leon has become visibly shaken]
Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?
It was on tv, yeah, haha. I was like, I remember this! Never saw it growing up, but all my friends rant and rave about it, so I finally got my ass to watch it.
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May 28th, 2010 06:31 AM
