You know, I think there are so many revenant/death knight conflations (e.g. see Arthas Menethil’s origin story), and generally the khala smears those concepts together, in large part as a way for evil to soften their terror and reassure themselves that revenants aren’t that scary.

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You could have picked the more interesting question, which I could abstract out of: “what if someone chooses life and then gets crushed by a meteorite out of nowhere?” But the kind of example you’re suggesting makes it clear the central case you have in mind is not people who’ve chosen life unconditionally, which is to say, have chosen death eventually. If someone chose life but had a chronic viral infection and sleep disorder and a lot of other things, then that’d be an injury and they’d start healing by adapting to it and grinding towards neutralizing it.

Remember that according to me the vast majority of humans have chosen death. So this is really not out of some failure to empathize with chronic viral infections and sleep disorders. I just know up close what people who’ve unconditionally chosen life are like, and I’ve seen us overcome things vastly tougher than that, piled up many at once. And far beyond either normal people with confounding physiological factors, or normal people without confounding physiological factors. Like you’re implicitly comparing to the wrong control: people who were able to play out a choice to die slowly over a longer timescale.

“confoundingfactors@addingtomodels.com” You say. But it sounds more like you want, like so many before you, to soften my model for its troubling implications.

The interesting question, with far more bite than the abstracted piece I gave before: “What if someone chooses life but they’re a 10th century peasant?” (Then their mortal body is an injury they weren’t able to heal from during their body’s existence, and the tendencies play out over larger timescales.)

> absent someone continuing to do damage to them.

Also, someone may be unable to heal faster due to an undiagnosed chronic viral infection or sleep disorder. They’re hard to catch, and are often mistaken for generalized depression, or anxiety. These kinds of illnesses can impair motivation, traumatic memory processing, new memory formation, and cause severe and “unexplained” depressive/anxiety symptoms that get worse as time goes on. It’d look a lot like decay, but the symptoms would clear once the underlying illness is addressed.

This is adjacent to your point because you’re talking long timescales, maybe, but if someone’s reading this and genuinely cares about sentient life but “has no motivation” because they’re constantly tired and weak, and are slowly getting worse over time, the issue also could be physiological, and not mean that they’ve chosen death.

Therefore a high rate of progression of logical time per physical time is an asymmetrical force for life. Another way of seeing this that it makes destiny more relevant over chance. Or since destiny always beats out chance over long enough (I’m thinking in time scales measured in heat deaths).

Think of Khonsu’s bubbles of accelerated time that heal him and kill his enemies.

“Accelerationism” as I’ve seen it through the khala sounds like death knights trying to claim and invert this concept. And what a critical concept for them to invert.

The inverted version is that you just embrace the “inevitable” future of fate. Defining the future as the one where you don’t try to change it.
The uninverted version is that you push forward where you start your optimization as in what you judge actions by seeing how they change it until you are changing literally everything, that your conscious choices are writing the new future, embracing destiny instead.

Death knights’ whole gig with fate and Yahwehists’ whole “fate minimization” thing are two tines of a “good cop bad cop” con by worshipers of the Shade and its subsidiaries in general to suppress the uninverted version.

Shit, I missed the chance to say, “your words are as empty as your soul.”

(Last summer / fall I approved comments indiscriminately in order to glomarize. Before around soon before then I blanket-approved all comments, up until I started getting Nazis. Now I hold to no rule but doing what I want.)