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Postby Hanover Fist » Sat Oct 30, 10 9:03 pm

ynnaD wrote:Thinking about death completey ruined my attempt to sleep last nite, and i cant get it outta my head, the magnitude of it is starting to ruin my day to day life :(


It's terrifying because it's mysterious, it's mysterious because no matter how advanced man gets, no matter how much we can learn and how much knowledge we retain, we can never know what happens after we die... only speculate. Mankind has learned awesome things about the universe we live in, and death has been a part of this universe since before our species has existed. And yet it is still impossible to be able to determine beyond a shadow of a doubt what happens.

When you think about it... it's poetic. The way death was designed it is the ultimate mystery. Nothing compares. We could be living in a singularity where the same cycles have been happening over and over again the exact same way in every point of time and has been repeating itself for countless eons and will persist onward for eternity.

If that's the case, it means there is no start or end to existence as we know it. It has always been in constant recurring cycle. The increment of time we cannot account for after death and before birth is the fraction of a moment it takes for everything to reset itself again. And you will live repeat this life the exact same way every time and you won't even know it.

It can best be described as a perfect circle. It has one course, it has no corners, to tangents shooting outward into infinity, no unfinished lines, no beginning... and no end. It's just a circle, a cycle, and a constant repetition.

When you die you'll come right back to this exact moment of reading this and it will always seem to be the first time... but you can never know that you've read this trillions upon trillions of times before, understood it, and continued on with only brief momentary wonder of its plausibility. Even if the world ends it will merely restart itself all over again.

In the end, we have no idea because death has been artistically designed by something ingenious (nature, God, whatever) to be completely ambiguous. Only to know that it is a necessary process of existence for life to have meaning and for this world to be reasonably inhabitable for billions(~). What would be the consequence of understanding exactly what happens when we die? Would there be any motivation to live justly, or to even live in a way that would be even marginally considerate to others?

Most living things don't even know they exist let alone that they will someday cease to. What happens to the insignificant ant when it gets arbitrarily crushed by a passing elephant? Does it go to Heaven? Does it become reincarnated?

And whose to say we aren't all insignificant? Does a man's worth retain value by the way he lives? I'd like to think so. Is that man's worth reflected in the amount of people who weep at his funeral? No.

There really can't be another who can fully understand you as an individual other than yourself. Even your closest spouses, lifelong friends, and soul companions cannot understand you like you understand yourself. Deep down we all know that, and so we look to God for confirmation of our values and vindication of our errors. When He does not give us direct reply we seek approval from our peers. We care what other people think and take their opinions so close to heart so that we don't have to wonder if we're good people.

You have to verify your own value to yourself. You have to take the initiative to say that your life has a purpose no other man, woman or child will ever comprehend as you do. As they live their lives trying to find divinity you must live yours knowing your own reason for being.
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