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I quite liked the article until the part that talks about self-deception: > If you know you’ll get another shot at life, you’re less likely to fear the end of
by yawz 12y ago
I quite liked the article until the part that talks about self-deception:
> If you know you’ll get another shot at life, you’re less likely to fear the end of this particular one.
This should not be the reason to value and enjoy life! This is no different than any other superstitious tradition that is put in place to comfort people who cannot face the reality: we get one and only one shot at this. Beyond that, whether you believe in reincarnation or in 72 virgins waiting in heaven, it is the same delusion.
- meric 12y agoWhen you die, your body disintegrates, and becomes food for insects, plants and bacteria, and so your body merely transformed into other lifeforms, then reincarnation can be considered literately true. Your consciousness, your mind, your nervous system, will not survive this transformation, but new conciousness, new minds and new nervous systems will form in its place. If you take it many steps further, you can see how it connects to Carl Sagan's idea: "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.". Your life, your death is merely one part of the cosmos, transforming into another. One door closes, and many more doors open.
- saraid216 12y agoNot sure whether or not I'm allowed to plug stuff that I have no connection to, but you may be interested in this Kickstarter I stumbled across recently: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/546469190/the-urban-death-project-laying-our-loved-ones-to-r https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/546469190/the-urban-dea...