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What drives someone to do something that has cost them so much already?
Posted on 6/15/18 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 6/15/18 at 12:50 pm
My wife took me to see the movie Adrift. After watching the movie I began to research the real life story behind the movie.
**Spoiler alert**
So even after losing the love of her life and being lost at sea for over 40 days and near dying while contemplating suicide, Tami Oldham Ashcraft still sails to this day.
Or what about that girl who had her arm bitten off by a white shark? They made a movie about her too, Soul Surfer. She still surfs to this day.
The one that really gets me is the story behind End of the Spear.
All of those dudes died with guns in their holsters and the capability to defend themselves from the hostile natives. The kicker is that their wives and children finish the job and end up planting a church in the jungles they were murdered in and with the very people that murdered them.
I mean it really defies my understanding. Maybe some of you can help me understand.
**Spoiler alert**
So even after losing the love of her life and being lost at sea for over 40 days and near dying while contemplating suicide, Tami Oldham Ashcraft still sails to this day.
Or what about that girl who had her arm bitten off by a white shark? They made a movie about her too, Soul Surfer. She still surfs to this day.
The one that really gets me is the story behind End of the Spear.
All of those dudes died with guns in their holsters and the capability to defend themselves from the hostile natives. The kicker is that their wives and children finish the job and end up planting a church in the jungles they were murdered in and with the very people that murdered them.
I mean it really defies my understanding. Maybe some of you can help me understand.
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Posted on 6/15/18 at 12:52 pm to rebeloke
There's no single answer to this question.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 12:55 pm to rebeloke
Maybe they gain more than they lost from what they are doing
Posted on 6/15/18 at 12:57 pm to rebeloke
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I mean it really defies my understanding. Maybe some of you can help me understand.
If there is nothing you value in life more than your own security, than I'm sure it would be very difficult to understand.
Of course, that's not to say I'm immune from the same line of thinking, but that's your answer in a nutshell.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 12:59 pm to UGATiger26
The ocean one is explainable to me.
Part of the reason people love to surf and sail is to experience the power of ocean and everything that lives in it. It makes you feel small and irrelevant. It is not the ocean's fault (or shark's) that they are who they are. These people don't blame them for being who they are and respect them even more.
Part of the reason people love to surf and sail is to experience the power of ocean and everything that lives in it. It makes you feel small and irrelevant. It is not the ocean's fault (or shark's) that they are who they are. These people don't blame them for being who they are and respect them even more.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 1:09 pm to rebeloke
Mostly because you shouldn't stop doing what you love because of one bad incident.
There is risk in everything that we do.
There is risk in everything that we do.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 1:12 pm to rebeloke
I know, right? I keep going back to Taco Bell.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 1:14 pm to rebeloke
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I mean it really defies my understanding
It's called faith
Posted on 6/15/18 at 1:17 pm to rebeloke
Shocker you of all posters suck at given an appropriate spoiler alert
Posted on 6/15/18 at 1:19 pm to rebeloke
Challenge.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 1:32 pm to lsunurse
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all posters suck at given an appropriate spoiler alert
Thought there was one. Or was it added after the fact?
Posted on 6/15/18 at 1:37 pm to rebeloke
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All of those dudes died with guns in their holsters and the capability to defend themselves from the hostile natives. The kicker is that their wives and children finish the job and end up planting a church in the jungles they were murdered in and with the very people that murdered them.
I mean it really defies my understanding. Maybe some of you can help me understand.
i wonder how many natives have been wiped out by diseases carried by missionaries.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 1:47 pm to rebeloke
You’re seeing the physical losses while ignoring the emotional gains.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 2:21 pm to High C
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There's no single answer to this question.
There probably is- but what's known by Vegas stays in Vegas.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 2:45 pm to oleheat
I kinda think it boils down to statistics. If you are rational, you tell yourself that it was a statistical outlier. Psychologically I think the trauma is masked and revised. You spin it in a positive light and relearn the experience from a self deceptive perspective. Lastly, it is post traumatic response. Like marriage on the rebound.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 2:49 pm to Tempratt
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Thought there was one. Or was it added after the fact?
What is the point of a spoiler alert if you don’t even leave a decent gap of space before posting the spoiler?
Than again..,it’s a reboloke thread.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 2:51 pm to rebeloke
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So even after losing the love of her life and being lost at sea for over 40 days and near dying while contemplating suicide
fricking spoilers man
Posted on 6/15/18 at 3:14 pm to rebeloke
Some might say it’s a disease
Posted on 6/15/18 at 4:52 pm to lsunurse
Exactly
Posted on 6/15/18 at 4:54 pm to rebeloke
Because it's something they enjoy and the odds of what happened to them happening again (which were already slim to none) are almost zero. You can't say the same for something as simple as driving a car, where risk of death is much higher.
ETA:
As a whitewater kayaker, I get it, I can die on any run. But it comes down to my abilities in that moment with nature. I won't be killed by someone else's neglect, it will be my own. That makes you feel alive.
ETA:
As a whitewater kayaker, I get it, I can die on any run. But it comes down to my abilities in that moment with nature. I won't be killed by someone else's neglect, it will be my own. That makes you feel alive.
This post was edited on 6/15/18 at 4:57 pm
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