Existential terror! Do you hide from it with immortality stories or face it and use it to make the most of life?https://twitter.com/keevamoran/status/798285330554064896 …
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I think it is an incredibly complex and infinite universe. Humans have limited perspective as single point of time.
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Indeed. What does that mean for your own mortality?
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I don't know. I only know the inevitability of it. So I try to enjoy every day I can.
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I'm trying to think about it a lot to reassess life & what I'll want to have done with it when time comes. Lindsay's book, obv
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I keep going back to "energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed".
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I find that appealing too. Matter and energy that is me now will survive but 'I' am the function of my brain & that will stop.
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perhaps we are part of something larger. We may not survive as individuals, but our fingerprint is on the shape of the Universe.
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There's some comfort in that. Not that the universe cares and it too will end. Talking abt our 'selves' really.
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The transhumanist idea. I wasn't really aware of it until I read James Lindsay's new book but now I find many ppl drawn to it.
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I think its similar to my (much sillier) fantasies about becoming a vampire! Not sure I'd want to lose my body & senses tho.
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Only because you're imagining experiencing it which you never will. But I know what you mean, I think. Impermanence?
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Yeah. I often think 'if only one year was two?' If we aged half as fast & lived twice as long. I think that'd be enough.
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When I think hard about death it scares me, which I know is irrational. More casually it angers me. The stuff I'm going to miss!
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Natural tho. I'm trying to think abt it a lot to reassess life. Lindsay's new book, obv. I want to travel more & write more.
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I never believed, but I always wanted there to be a god (not the one in scripture) and an afterlife. https://secondthoughtfortheday.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/my-afterlife-and-tim-minchins-christmas/ …
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Aww. *sniff* (Alcohol features largely in my family gatherings too.)
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I blub whenever I read it, and I wrote it - how dumb is that. Time for bed PS - I ordered the book :)
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You sentimental northerners. ;-) Yay! You'll enjoy it. Or be thought-provoked by it, anyway.
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