#immortality project

[tyforthevnm]

January 15, 2004 // London, UK // Courtesy of Chris, Immortality Project

#gerard way #frank iero #ray toro #immortality project #january 15 2004 #january 2004 #2004 #bullets era #rica.archive

[olena]

(via The Denial of Death - Wikipedia)

The Denial of Death is a 1973 book by American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. The author builds on the works of Søren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, Norman O. Brown, and Otto Rank to discuss the psychological and philosophical implications of how people and cultures have reacted to the concept of death. The author argues most human action is taken to ignore or avoid the inevitability of death. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1974, two months after the author's death. It is the main work responsible for the development of terror management theory.

The premise of The Denial of Death is that human civilization is ultimately an elaborate, symbolic defense mechanism against the knowledge of our mortality, which in turn acts as the emotional and intellectual response to our basic survival mechanism.

...since humanity has a dualistic nature consisting of a physical self and a symbolic self, we are able to transcend the dilemma of mortality by focusing our attention mainly on our symbolic selves...

This symbolic self-focus takes the form of an individual's "causa sui project," (sometimes called an “immortality project,” or a “heroism project”). A person’s "causa sui project” acts as their immortality vessel, whereby a person creates meaning, or continues to create meaning, beyond their own life-span. ... In other words, by living up to (or especially exceeding) cultural standards, people feel they can become part of something eternal: something that will never die as compared to their physical body. This, in turn, gives people the feeling that their lives have meaning, a purpose, and significance in the grand scheme of things i.e. that they are “heroic contributors to world life” engaged in an “immortality project.” 

Immortality projects are one way that people manage death anxiety. Some people, however, will engage in hedonic pursuits like drugs, alcohol, and entertainment to escape their death anxiety - often to compensate for a lack of “heroism” or culturally-based self-esteem - resulting in a lack of contribution to the “immortality project”. Others will try to manage the terror of death by “tranquilizing themselves with the trivial” i.e. strongly focusing on trivial matters and exaggerating their importance — often through busyness and frenetic activity.

... Humanity's traditional "hero-systems", such as religion, are no longer convincing in the age of reason. Becker argues that the loss of religion leaves humanity with impoverished resources for necessary illusions. Science attempts to serve as an immortality project,

...Becker argues that the conflict between contradictory immortality projects (particularly in religion) is a wellspring for the violence and misery in the world caused by wars, genocide, racism, nationalism and so forth since immortality projects that contradict one another threaten one’s core beliefs and sense of security.

Concepts and ideas

... Creativity Like the schizophrenic, creative and artistic individuals deny both physical reality and culturally-endorsed immortality projects, expressing a need to create their own reality. The primary difference is that creative individuals have talents that allow them to create and express a reality that others may appreciate, rather than simply constructing an internal, mental reality.

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The Denial of Death has been praised for its post-Freudian approach to psychoanalysis, and has been criticized for its reductive depictions of mental health and humanity.

#denial of death #covid #behavior #psychology #causa sui project #immortality project #death anxiety #creativity #mental health

[arbiterlexultionis]

Instant Eternity

Time travel involving the infinite realms is truly a bizarre thing. Sometimes it follow one set of rules, and sometimes that set of rules may as well not exist. Usually, however, it works in one of two ways, the first is when the time travel is achieved through artificial means such as clockworks portals and allows for the altering of the timeline as one would expect time travel would allow. The other type of time travel is through natural means, portals usually, and it’s just that, Natural. That portal to the past opened up in the past the same moment it did in the present. If you step into the portal in the year 2000 then you already stepped out of the portal hundreds of years ago. It’s A Thing That Already Happened. Danny himself experienced this, as while chasing Vlad through time they fought in the middle of a Roman coliseum and, whoopsy daisy, set a really big fire. A fire which Danny had learned about years before he even had his accident.

So, the infimap can take the user anywhere, anywhen. And the infimap is just that, a map. It doesn’t make new roads, it just drags you across already existing paths. So it is a natural form of time travel, if you use it to go in time to kill your grandfather in order to insure your never born your interference will result in your grandparents falling in love and your birth.

Danny realizes that anytime he needs to heal from a battle or has gone 156 hours without sleeping or eating he can use the infimap to pop back to the past for a few days and then have the map bring back to the “Present”, exactly one second after he left. A three week vacation that lasted one second. At first he’s really wary about using this, worried about accelerated aging or getting lost in the time stream and a hundred other issues. At first.

It’s been months sense the accident. Sam and Tucker have both shot up several inches. Danny, on the other hand, hasn’t grown sense the accident. At all. They fought a ghost who could rapidly age opponents, a single slap turned Tucker into a decrepit old man. The ghost wrapped his hands around Danny’s throat and spent 5 minutes trying to strangle him while Danny bought time for Sam and Tucker to pull off the plan. The sucked him into the thermos, his influence on time ceased so Tucker returned to his proper state. “Jeez it sure is lucky he didn’t try and age me, right guys? Ha ha ha”. Danny gets blasted through a natural portal while making a trip through the zone and spends years trying to get home, not aging a day.

He can’t deny it after that, can’t ignore it. He’s immortal. He’s going to live forever. He’s going to watch his friends and family whither away and die out. He’s going to have to spend the rest of his life wandering from place to place trying not to get outed as the same 14 year old who save someone’s great great grandma 100 years ago.

After having his first middeath crisis, suddenly the only reasons he had to not spend years on end wandering the world and the past is gone, even if he loses the infimap, worst case scenario he’ll just take the long way home. Suddenly, he’s dreading the next 80 years of the “Present”. He decides that if he’s going to watch his friends and family grow old and frail he’s going to make sure it’s takes as long as it possibly could, from his perspective. By the time they’re 20 Danny’s gonna have 200 years under his belt.

He becomes a temporal tourist, hopping into the past every time the late night fights and schoolwork become to much. Spends years in every civilization imaginable, mastering every skill he can, leaving legends in his wake.

I feel like Danny and his adventures do have a lot of potential for story’s, as it’s a pretty good setup for having Danny in any type of time period or historical event for extended periods of time, fighting in the trenches of World War I, exploring the Americas during the era of colonialism, sailing the seas a swashbuckling vigilante pirate. I, however, have most of my related ideas being based around crossovers. So most of that will be in part two, so that people who like to filter out all that can still see this post.

#danny fenton #danny phantom #fic prompt #dp au #story prompt #writing prompt #danny phantom au #dp #Danny’s Immortal #temporal tourist #Temporal Tourist AU #Danny the next time Vlad goes on and on about his TWenTy YeARs ExperIANce: That’s cute #Dash pulls up to start something and Danny fresh from spending 13 years as a baker in Ancient Rome is just like Who’s this strange child? #He completely forgets about a English project for Lancer and when Lancers standing in front of his desk asking for it #Danny just like “it’s in… Um… in the bathroom “the bathroom? “yes “ okay go get it. Now. #Danny comes back two seconds later with the best project Lancer has ever seen. it’s autographed by Shakespeare #he had to ask what the project was before he left.

[thelien-art]

Caranthir with his favorite horse from Valinor

#oh no #i have caranthir fever again #tolkien #jrr tolkien #silmarillion #caranthir #carnistir #morifinwe #i do headcannon that horses from valinor are more or less immortal they do die of old age but they can get up to 500 years #i know that the books says maedhros gave horses to fingolfin when he gave the crown but im also 99% sure he kept some #i mean maglor more or less breed horses in cannon so some of his gotta be from valinor #and i like the idea that caranthir gave some of his valinor horses and foals to haleth as a gift #rohans horses are descendants of caranthirs horses for haleth #still trying to get better at drawing horses for a bigger project #silm art #digital art #my art

[moss-on-a-pebble]

Me when I project on my fav characters (real)

#sorry for the somber post #My cat died and Hermes was the victim of me projecting lol #idek if his turtle is immortal or if Than works with animals but ehhh whatever #hades game #hades supergiant #supergiant #supergiant games #hermes hades #thanatos hades #hades hermes #hades thanatos

[frnko-mars]

The Immortality Project

#gerard way #my chemical romance #the immortality project #don't think i've seen these all together so

[tricoufamily]

x / x / x

my second time doing this challenge! it took me forever to try and come up with a story for this and i still got nothing. first of all highwayman as i've said is my favorite song of all time so. no pressure. then i thought it was funny that the next song was so different yet kind of similar in that there's some vague thread of immortality in both of them. then the third is just a love song so. idk. some kind of supernatural weirdness going on here.

#i really really love these two though #i mean the third song is a country love song so i was like well we've already got some kind of weird immortal cowboy thing going on #i might as well be honest and not reroll like i WANTED TO. the 3rd song was the kicker it's what made this so hard lmao #i also haven't named these sims yet #i didn't expect to start projecting onto that second sim so hard either he just like me #'bad' trans rep <3333 i even gave him the exact same dysphoria jacket i have it's joever #ts4 #ts4 edit #the sims 4 #ts4 cas

[marinam00n]

Inst: mari.na.moon

#aesthetic #cosplay #immortal capricorn #sewing project #tian guan ci fu cosplay #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing cosplay #heaven official's blessing #hua cheng #hualian #chinese hanfu #mo xiang tong xiu #xie lian #tgcf

[thearsonistofarland]

Ayin was such a fucking poser prep fuck that guy

#project moon #library of ruina #Angela Library of Ruina #my immortal #ebony dark'ness dementia raven way #limbus Company #lobotomy corporation #ayin lobcorp

[immortaldesiresproject]

Project Update

Hello friends and fans. I want to apologize yet again for leaving everyone hanging. I would like to share that this project will no longer be continuing. Due to everyone's personal circumstances, it has been difficult to meet and to create the game. In regard to my own personal struggles, I had a suspected mini-stroke back in November that has caused neuropathy on top of already having fibromyalgia. On top of my recovery being a mess of cognitive issues, I lost someone who was like a second father to me, as well as my best friend of 18 years. I hope this gives some clarity as to why the project was a little abandoned, and I'm sorry I haven't gotten around to providing this update sooner. With my life finally reaching a level of normalcy between returning to school and being able to function properly at my job again, I have mustered up passion and inspiration for the first time in months (after getting piercing and tattoo therapy lmao). I will be creating my own game inspired by the storyline of this fan project and a webtoon I wrote years ago. I'll give shameless plug of the blog once I have actual material to share, if any of you are curious or want to follow along the journey of building that game.

Thank you for all of your support and love to this game. I'm disappointed that it ended like this, but life sometimes has a way of steering you off the rails.

#immortaldesiresfanproject #immortal desires #immortal desires fan project #choices you play #playchoices #choices stories you play #play choices #interactive story #IDFP update

[w1f1n1ghtm4r3]

immortals with dead wives club

#thinking about my ny2/3 au from the start of this year and then went oh i could give nene a dead wife (ny4 mizuki) now #and then i thought it would be even better if tsukasa also had a dead wife (rui) #immortal friends who miss their dead wives gotta stick together #project sekai #prsk art #project sekai fanart #prsk fa #prsk gl #prsk bl #mizunene #ruikasa #nene kusanagi #tsukasa tenma #w1f1 draws #technically mizurui are both caught in a cycle of reincarnation so theyre reborn later on but the dead wives bit is funnier

[tyforthevnm]

January 15, 2004 // London, UK // Courtesy of Chris, Immortality Project

#mikey way #frank iero #gerard way #ray toro #frank's mohawk #january 15 2004 #january 2004 #2004 #rica.archive #bullets era #immortality project

[ryozeki]

Owner of 5 Impossible Treasure

Just a late night dood

#touhou project #pre-immortal kaguya is a menace #touhou #kaguya houraisan #touhou fanart #東方project #kaguya bullshit adventure

[edenleicester]

Project Sekai is just Xanadu with Hatsune Miku right?

#edenarts #draws #project sekai #prsk #hatsune miku #ichika hoshino #leo/need #ichimiku #love an artist/immortal inhuman muse pairing #fat headcanon #fat positive

[yonemurishiroku]

Ok everything about that Nico, god of Regret and Redemption was to say that:

Provided that he can, what if Nico brings Luke’s ghost to Camp Half-blood, years after the wars, and shows him how better the demigod life has become, now?

Like. Nico points at an acne-ridden, scrawny teen who’s carrying a child on his back and tells Luke that’s Apollo - the once mighty and egoistical Apollo - with his children?

And the much, much-younger demigods who end up safe at Camp before they even hit 12 because the gods actually remember their children now?

And the much, much older demigods who go to colleges and have jobs now because they aren’t sent to deadly quests anymore?

And then Nico tells him, “Your sacrifice didn’t go to waste.”

He can let go of his resentment now.

#i want nico to know that luke did everything for the recognition the demigods deserve. and appreciate it. #i want nico to see the goodness in luke like I do #TOTALLY not projecting. but you have to agree it’s a nice concept #nico di angelo #luke castellan #fanfic talk again bc what’s new anw? #yone rambling #nico and luke #powerful nico #deity nico #prince of the underworld #immortal nico #ghost king nico #god nico #god nico au

[frnko-mars]

The Immortality Project

#gerard way #the immortality project #had never seen the first one :')