Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
a sad thought indeed. — Art48
Nothing is absolutely created or destroyed, it only changes form.
When a star explodes, its atoms continue, and their trajectory reflects and continues that of the star, including the added effects from the event of its demise. In fact, if you view the star as a gravitational phenomenon from far enough away, it has a very similar profile before it has actually ignited and after it explodes.
Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. — Epicurus
What you find hateful [harmful], do not do to anyone. — Hillel the Elder
Carpe diem! Non serviam. Sapere aude. Amor fati ....Memento mori, memento vivere. :death: :flower:A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life. — Spinoza
Good point. I'd say the OP concerns the ego but we also may be said to have a deeper self in that we are an expression of the entire universe, not that we are the universe but rather that the universe is us.Do you get no comfort from the suggestion that we are all connected via the components we are made of? Conservation laws? Only the form changes, nothing is destroyed or created. We disassemble after death and what we were become universal spare parts again. — universeness
Do you get no comfort from the suggestion that we are all connected via the components we are made of? Conservation laws? Only the form changes, nothing is destroyed or created. — universeness
Because if I cease to exist at death, then all the people I’ve known and loved who have passed have also ceased to exist, a sad thought indeed. A thought that leads to questions about the meaning and purpose of life itself. — Art48
Matter continuing doesn't have to do with conscious existence continuing. — TiredThinker
Meditation and drugs can help with ego-death — Xtrix
There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. — Albert Camus
I agree that many religious people have enough doubts about heaven that they fear dying.Why do people cry when their near and dear ones die? It can't be because the deceased is going to a, ahem, "better place". Ergo ... either nothing or hell awaits us ... postmortem. — Agent Smith
I'd say that many people really don't believe in heaven and merely want to destroy someone they hate.how do you explain the desire to kill one's enemies and the pleasure one experiences when/after doing so? If the dead go to heaven, why would anyone want to murder one's foe? — Agent Smith
I'd say that many people really don't believe in heaven and merely want to destroy someone they hate.
But having never killed anyone, I don't speak from experience. :) — Art48
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