I chose the title "Exit Only" for several reasons.
- I really wanted to use this photo from when I took Photo I.
- It is vaguely reminiscent of Sartre's No Exit. I always liked that play because my middle name is Inez and I act like her sometimes.
- Is death (the exit) really the ultimate act of life? That reminds me of the refrain "life sucks and then you die" but I can't help but think there's more to life than death. Why is it that life doesn't make sense without death? Death is the absence of life. Is life the absence of death?
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i disagree. death is not the absence of life. on the contrary, death is a way of clearing the way for new life. were it not for death, the entire world would be like japan, everyone on top of everyone else. and that's just people. without death, we wouldn't have evolved b/c the dinasaurs would have still been on earth. hell, w/o death we wouldn't exist b/c evolution relies on the principle of natural selection - the strong survive, the weak don't. seen from that perspective, it becomes obvious that death is critical for life. as for life being an absence of death, again, i would have to disagree. besides the application of the same argument - that life is the reason for death - there's the argument that life is, at least in reference to death, a way to perfect the design of god, if you believe in one, or of nature, or w/e (ie the progress of evolution). personally, i think it's a bit weak, but it's there. anyway, good first entry lol
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