2/10 Death is not only the human condition, but it is the condition of the entire universe. Its beginning, just like ours, paradoxically secured its end. To be brought into existence means we will one day be brought out of it. Life offers only itself and death.
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3/10 We have no choice then but to accept our birth into the world. Life is thrust upon us as we are thrust out from one great unknown and into another. Perhaps, then, life is a kind of death, as one that is not brought existence cannot die at all.
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4/10 But they also cannot feel, cannot see, cannot ponder, imagine, create and learn. Cannot listen to thunder and feel rain against their skin. Cannot inhale scented steam twirling off chai tea in the morning. Cannot dance to music with friends...pic.twitter.com/WCRV1bkJB7
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5/10 Okay, so we are alive, and one day we will return to that immense nothingness that was us before our conception. The same immense nothingness that the universe was subject to before the big bang.
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6/10 Well, not subject to. Nothing cannot be subject to anything. Such a concept is completely unfathomable, unable to be experienced nor conceived.
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7/10 Sometimes I like to think that the universe also has a consciousness, that it also has no clue what's going on. Just floating along with the entropy that will consume it all. The laws of the universe will be its own demise.pic.twitter.com/nYII6Vzb0N
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8/10 Death is the ultimate irony. Life, the ultimate paradox. In turning the real into unreal, death is the truest and realest thing we can know. What now? One thing life gives us that non-life does not is the ability to do. So what do we do in light of our inevitabilities?
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9/10 “Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.” - Welcome to Nightvale. Aknowledge it, yes. Live with it and by it, yes. But do not fear it.
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10/10 “So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us, but when death comes, then we do not exist. It doesn’t concern either the living or the dead, since the former it is not, and the latter It's no more.” - Epicuruspic.twitter.com/nT737rjYIH
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