Hang on

friend whos always available: i can do whenever

friend whos constantly busy: im sorry i have work and then school and then the labyrinth and then more work :( i can do tuesday at 3:00 am for five minutes tho

friend with the randomly generated sleep schedule: (no response)

friend who went missing in the woods behind their house 12 years ago and hasn't been heard from since: (no response)

"so we keep sending people up to the command crew telling them the below-decks workspace is filling with water and the pumps won't work, but they keep refusing to send an engineer down or stop fishing to do anything about it because they are in the middle of hauling a lot of fish which means a lot of money"

"finally it's so flooded we're about to drown and we can't get life vests for everyone because the life vests are all locked up with padlocks in a locker because the captain and his mate thought the crew might try to steal them and sell them ashore."

"and then the captain told me not to bother trying to launch any of the other lifeboats even though it's a 38 man crew and the lifeboat we've just launched only holds 15" (the guy went and launched them anyway, which probably saved about 10 lives)

"when we opened the several emergency bags on the lifeboats there were no flares or rations or a satellite phone or any emergency supplies at all in them, just a video camera and some pamphlets"

like. 21 of the 38 men died. while the whole thing was basically a guaranteed disaster because of the greed and selfishness of the captain and his command crew and their refusal to listen to their workers and engineers.

so really cool thing about this is that the #1 thing that is reported as motivation post near-death-experience is the experience of sympathy with the body

most people do not see themselves as a body or if they do they feel animosity towards the body, which, jokes on them, is themselves.

a lot of ppl who have had NDAs or other spiritual experiences go through altered perspectives like being outside of their body or being 'inside' their body on a cellular level; even non-spiritually, I've read reports of people who during medical treatment saw imagery of their own organs and realized for the first time that these things are inside you pumping away, living, trying to keep you going no matter what kind of shit you're doing with your life

so yeah it does. I posted this however long ago bc I found it funny but one really common response is "Oh now I feel bad for my cells and want to do better"