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How Do You Get Over Death?
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“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on—only henceforth in my absence. [...] Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave. Whether it was a hellishly bad party or a party that was perfectly heavenly in every respect, the moment that it became eternal and compulsory would be the precise moment that it began to pall.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
 RE: How Do You Get Over Death?
August 18, 2015 at 7:07 am
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2015 at 7:29 am by T.J..)
I try not to think about it since there's no point dwelling over something you can't prevent, unless our technology improves to the point that one can become a cyborg in my lifetime, then I'll probably take that option because... dude, cyborg!
That said, it was never death that bothered me. It was the fear of what came after imbedded into me at a young age that worried me, and once the fear's gone it's more of a relief than anything.  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. 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.
 (August 18, 2015 at 9:07 am)Pyrrho Wrote:(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. Well, sure, but I'm pissed about it now. 
Well it's inevitable. Imma get dead even if I refuse to accept it. So there's no point moaning about it
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
RE: How Do You Get Over Death?
August 18, 2015 at 9:35 am
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2015 at 9:45 am by Pyrrho.)
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
I am an organism like any other. My goal is to drink as much scotch and have as much sex as I can before I wear out.
Average in my family is ~ 75.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Pyrrho Wrote:Why be pissed about something that you will not mind when it happens?Because it hasn't happened yet, and I'm allowed to reserve the right to be pissed about things. It's like why be pissed about anything, if you're just gonna die in the end? wut? Look, I want to live forever and experience the breadth and depth of humanity's voyage through the universe. There are so many things we don't understand about the universe and the fact that I know I won't be around to know them is very frustrating. |
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