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If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
(September 26, 2016 at 6:58 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:
(September 26, 2016 at 6:44 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I wasn't talking about immortality at all. We were talking about human beings -- mortals. We've been dying since the day we were born.

And -- I've known people in the prime of life physically who certainly wanted to end it ... and two who succeeded in doing so.
Since the day we are born? Surely, there is a growth processes and gaining of information/order before there is cessation of growth and accumulation of disorder. Unless you're talking about telomerase.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101128/f...0.635.html

And then there is the spiritual quality of "dying" inside before the body does. Losing the "spark" of life and will/want to live. Aka the death of the heart, the waxing of love, the human soul turned cold.

My personal metric for that death of the heart is when I stop playing. That is when the death process has over come the inertia and willed pattern of my life process. If I can still express joy on the day of my death, I will have never died. Something to aim for, anyway.

I knew someone would get pedantic with the poetic.

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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion? - by deleteduser12345 - September 21, 2016 at 2:11 pm
RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion? - by Thumpalumpacus - September 26, 2016 at 7:22 pm

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