RE: How Do You Get Over Death?
August 18, 2015 at 9:07 am
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2015 at 9:07 am by Pyrrho.)
(August 18, 2015 at 4:26 am)Qwraith Wrote: Like others, I'm just pissed I won't get to see what happens to humanity.
Quote:On the plus side, you'll miss the inevitable demise of our species via nuclear/chemical war, economic/environmental disaster, or the takeover by A.I.
But I want to see that!
I just hope I don't die before we make first contact.
The thing is, when you are dead, you will not be pissed about it and you will not want to see anything and you will not hope to be alive. So it will all be perfectly fine, just like the year 1800 was for you. In 1800, you were not pissed about anything, you did not want to see anything, and you did not hope to be alive.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.