re: Has the OT ever discussed 'the call of the void?'

All the time, it's just idle curiosity. Actually jumping into traffic or dropping off a ledge or whatever else is an alien experience; you know logically what it is and might have heard of someone else doing it, but almost everyone has never experienced anything close to it. So you wonder what it'd be like if you just tried it. Add in the rush of fear that one very reasonably experiences when at all close to actually doing one of these things (and not in any melodramatic, suicidal ideation way either; just standing on a balcony and looking down or walking down a sidewalk next to a busy street, very mundane things), and it's no wonder it's a common sentiment.

It's not something to find disturbing or haunting. Just the reasonable result of a curious higher-order intelligence contemplating a scenario that's simultaneously alien to anything it's previously experienced and not far away from the mundane.

For me it's probably most frequent when thinking about driving into a body of water, like if you could hypothetically go off of I-10 into the LSU Lakes. Not because I want to - hell no - but because I drive over the Lakes all the time.

It's an interesting phenomenon, and I think it's cool that it has its own name, since that implies it's a common sentiment or experience. (Which is also reassuring. )

Bunch of Barneys in this thread.