(July 20, 2017 at 10:53 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:(July 15, 2017 at 11:30 pm)bennyboy Wrote: From his point of view, it is. Or more like, the world never existed.
Right. This is what I mean. From my POV as the deceased (so to speak) there is no discernible difference between having lived and died, and having never been born in the first place. I'm not talking about the difference I make in the world that continues to exist beyond my ending. I didn't mean to imply that people who have died no longer mean anything to those of us still living. Thanks for clarifying, Benny!
Given your name here, I'm not surprised that you see death as kind of a mockery of life. The absurdity of mortality in the face of infinity was definitely a Camus thing.
That being said, I think almost EVERYTHING is absurd, from quantum mechanics to Big Bang or black hole singularities. And yet, and I really think this is non-trivial: this morning, the birds are singing outside my window, the kids are laughing in the other room, and I have a few interesting things I could do today if I stepped away from the computer long enough.
