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By why would that “negative reality” of yours only extend into the future but not also into the past, i.e. the time before birth?
by Koshkin 4y ago
By why would that “negative reality” of yours only extend into the future but not also into the past, i.e. the time before birth?
- layer8 4y agoBecause there is no hope for an earlier life in the past, as opposed to for a later life in the future. While we mentally live both in the past and in the future (and only little in the present), it’s not symmetric. We usually live for a better future. Depression for example is correlated with hopelessness for the future. You can’t lose hope for the past, because you consider it immutable and (usually) known, whereas the future is in flux and can be influenced, and is yet unknown (to some degree). The prospect of death on the other hand is incompatible with any subjective future one could hope for.
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