"Well, then we have no disconnect. Ten minutes after, I was fine. There was just no chance I was gonna let it happen again. If somebody was doing it over and over again, One might go permanently mad. No question in my mind.
All I was trying to say is that once you have totally and complete panic and surrender, you can't surrender or panic to any greater degree.
I sure hope it's true, and objectively I beleive it's true. But, I don't think the sensation could be worse, it could just damage you more by lasting. I found it true in my ultramarathoning that when things hurt as bad as they possibly can, they just don't get worse.
To quantify it, look at it this way. Let's say the maximum human distress a person can voluntarily withstand is 10.
Waterboarding was a 1,000.
" (An ultra marathoner tried waterboarding) - view Andrew Sullivan.
All I was trying to say is that once you have totally and complete panic and surrender, you can't surrender or panic to any greater degree.
I sure hope it's true, and objectively I beleive it's true. But, I don't think the sensation could be worse, it could just damage you more by lasting. I found it true in my ultramarathoning that when things hurt as bad as they possibly can, they just don't get worse.
To quantify it, look at it this way. Let's say the maximum human distress a person can voluntarily withstand is 10.
Waterboarding was a 1,000.
" (An ultra marathoner tried waterboarding) - view Andrew Sullivan.
posted by Dody G. at 8:49 AM
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