Life and Death

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[size=75](In response to someone seeking to overcome the fear of death)[/size]

Death is the antithesis of life. Death’s weight directly correlates with that of life.

If one adores life, death will seem the cruelest blow. If one abhors life, death will seem the kindest blessing.

If you love your life, you can’t defeat the power of death. All you can do is learn to accept it’s place and react to it in a life affirming manner.

Live with the knowledge you have a precious opportunity, and follow the passion of your heart, don’t sell yourself short for comfort.

If one lives a fulfilling life, they can meet death with open arms and a smile, ‘Hello, friend. You should have seen what I just did, but alas, you had to be there’, with full knowledge, that one got the best of the deal, and that nothing can take that away, for one never experiences a moment of death, all one will ever know is life.

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I think you know there are too much assumptions here, there is no affirmation, you are just alive, there is necessarily no value in it, there is no preference for absence of existence or abnegation or awareness and existence. You live you die, teleology?

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Really is amazing how thoroughly Christianism has infected everything. I’d say there’s just about no hope left.

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I quite agree. :smiley:

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I will justify any part of the post. Please direct to me where you think the assumptions lay.

You seem to have completely misunderstood my post.

I’m saying the healthiest way to react to death, is to harness it’s affect on one into something life affirming.

I’m calling for action, not saying that there is already action.

If someone’s living in fear of death, they’re clearly not taking advantage of it’s power. That’s a given and contradicts nothing in the post.

I’m not saying there needs to be value. You’re creating a straw man.

There are many people who have objectives, and therefore, apply value to their life, existence and environment. I am speaking to them.

If you don’t have any objective, so be it. This thread isn’t intended for you. Shoo.

There’s plenty of hope around, just none that you’re capable of ingesting.

Weak stomach.

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ie. If one fears drowning in the water they find themselves in, they will certainly do so.
“Fear is the mind killer.”

And value is actually given by the process of living itself. Life isn’t “of value”, but rather “the valuing process”. To deny the valuing process is to deny life itself. A living being is a “self-valuing entity”. The fact that the universe doesn’t value it is irrelevant (as long as you don’t expect it to anyway).

Today people are encouraged and tricked into devaluing life so as to make life more convenient for others lusting to control all life.

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Contra Sartre : heaven is other people.