Talk:Thema/@comment-30435614-20161106141428

Okay, so basically I just marathoned this in a weekend and I'm trying to work out what my Thema would be. I understand the way a Thema works. It is subject or way of thinking that falls the furthest away from your standard way of thinking as is possible, from there it is placed in an Archive (more to categorize it than anything else) and from there you research it and try to learn as much about it as you can. The reason for choosing something different to how you think is to remove the temptation of using the power you are developing (selfishly?) An example is a person who is extremely kind choosing cruelty as their Thema because they would find it really hard to be heartless.

Sorry for the long winded explanation btw.

Onto my question. I am having trouble working out my own thema, as I cannot think of a way of thinking that is drastically different to my own. I went through ideas such as cruelty (hence, it's use as an example), but I'm neutral on the quote by Nicolo Machiavelli: "The end justifies the means" so that's out of the question.

After much thought I had an idea. Now it's a weird one so please don't shoot me down in burning flames but I do know that I am highly afraid of death (or more specifically that there may not be anything after it and so I would just cease to think and exist except in memories) and so with that fear came a knowledge of my own mortality. As such I have never once thought I might be immortal or invincible. So then I thought: "What if immortality was my Thema?" But then what would it be under? So far I think it would have to be either Greed or Envy. I thought one of those two because a want for immortality is usually born from either wanting to have the longest life of anyone in the world (greed) or being envious of the longevity of others (envy)

So yeah, I am trying to work out if immortality even COULD be a Thema and if so what Archive would it be in?