posted December 13, 2012 04:02 AM            

I have a strong self-preserving instinct. When/if my survival is concerned, I know that I can be ruthless. Call me a coward, but I can't be a hero if I'm dead. My emotions go off. I won't scream and cry and shout no/friend's name if I witness them get killed.
I think to myself, "if you survive, there will be all the time in the world to *insert verb here*"
Stuff like that, or more accurately, "Do what has to be done."

posted December 13, 2012 04:18 AM            

aspect-wise --- um - Saturn in Scorpio~ >.>; ---- oh but yeah - (((bias)))

Saturn opposite Moon

the opposite of that need to nuture/let emotoins get the better of you~ would in my mind be attributed largely to Saturn, next to Jupiter, and Mercury -- positive aspects between Mercury and Jupiter (to Saturn or Mars) perhaps making a person more inclined to think on their feet and use what they have at their disposal to overcome/gain ground in these situations - but, Saturn has to trump them~ one way or the other - it comes down to the mind being more adaptable than the emotional structure of a person's psyche. The stronger you are mentally and the more perseverance you have toward reaching a certain goal the more assertive your will to survive will be.

something like that~ ^^;

but I'm heavily biased on the topic~

lol (just realized I made it about cardinal energies, pretty much)... eeps sorry ~

just my 2 bits~ ^^;

posted December 13, 2012 06:18 AM            

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posted December 13, 2012 06:22 AM            

Type 8: Possession/Surrender

posted December 13, 2012 03:55 PM            

I tend to be understanding, at least if the characters have never faced such a sitch before and it's especially horrific as they tend to be when hideous aliens or nightmarish monsters rip a loved one apart, entrails dripping, right in front of them. Frankly, I'm not sure even I (who has seen people killed right in front of me and faced horrific sitches) would immediately handle that well either. Nevertheless, I do get angry when like someone fleeing a killer sees a dead cop and instead of grabbing their gun first, radio second (both of which are right there in plain view) just scream & run. And I get annoyed when the most basic rules of common sense are ignored (for example, kids get lost in woods, they KNOW they're walking in circles, and yet refuse to to instead follow a stream which would keep them going in one direction and very likely lead them to civilization as well as much more likely to find campers and the like, though I did give a pass once thinking their minds were clouded under the spell of a witch who haunted the woods, not that this was explicitly stated in the movie).

The ones that REALLY tick me off, however, are the REAL LIFE people. For example, yet another hurricane hit Florida and a mom is on the news demanding the government take care of her and her kids when she refused to prepare at all or leave. Understand, if she HAD prepared but a natural disaster or human attack deprived her of her home I'd be fully sympathetic, but she was just afflicted with the lazy mind of a child who believed her life was everyone else's responsibility, a leech, and she was an unfit mother who should have had her kids removed.

And then there was a neighbor (a few houses down) of mine...I first came alert when I was working the yard when 2 white boys pretending to be black gangsters (the blacks in the neighborhood loathed them even more than I did and wished they met REAL black gangsters) where one was bragging to his friend about killing his ex-girlfriend's cat by getting the cat in a bag and then slamming the cat to death and dumping the body on her doorstep. I instantly begin playing with the idea of vigilante slaying (what can I say, I was raised in Texas), especially as I realized that with a little forethought I'd likely get away with it (as I had no real connection to them and a lot of people hated them), though I believe the biggest reason why I eschewed avenging the cat and defending the community from a psychopath is that I was worried someone innocent might be sent to prison in my place (the innocent are convicted all the time).

And then the cat killing psychopath made the news for killing his ex (guess her cat just wasn't enough). He broke through her window and stabbed her to death while she stayed on the phone with 911. The cops caught him fleeing the scene but it was too late for her. And for a moment I wondered if I should've carried out my initial urge to kill him while she was still alive but then decided I made the right call, and as for her, she was likely messed up to have had him as a boyfriend in the first place AND she should've either fled (having called 911 she probably would've survived had she even just locked herself in the bathroom until the cops got there, which they did like 2 minutes after he killed her), bashed him over the head as he crawled in, or used a gun (virtually anyone could use one of those in her own home assuming not a convicted felon), and she could've called 911 before doing any of those things, too instead of just praying for someone (though at least praying to the police is more effective than praying to God) to save her and waiting in paralyzed terror for the end. I know it's cold, but I just don't have much sympathy for her. The only one I feel sorry for is her cat.

Btw, you might love this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJnwEO4rBw

posted December 13, 2012 08:39 PM            

I also get mad when the protagonists don't put up much of a fight, for me it isn't about whether or not they do"win' and survive in the end, as long as they try to. I get frustrated watching them get wailed on or hacked up when they do little or nothing to defend themselves.

But even then, I'm not thinking something like, "They deserve to die", far from it - that kind of thinking sounds more like a Saturnian or Plutonian thing to me. I know a few people who think like that and I think most of them have prominent Saturn or Pluto.

posted December 14, 2012 01:32 AM            

well now --- that's not biased one bit...

>.>; lol

ur right tho- i was thinking that ---- it's like gameshows --- it's always easy when ur not the one under the gun/timer...

but - yeanomaybe

maybe half fixed and half cardinals will survive

posted December 14, 2012 01:37 AM            

I feel you Red Scorp.

For me, I've survived several of those types of situations, adrenal dump the whole bit.