RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 26, 2016 at 7:22 pm
(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.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.
And -- I've known people in the prime of life physically who certainly wanted to end it ... and two who succeeded in doing so.
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.