You know, thinking about this quote makes me wonder how this would apply to a marriage?
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Marriage is a social convention, a shared narrative and belief that mediates relating between two individuals. You can choose to believe in it or not, but neither of them makes it any more real than claiming you are married to a rock.
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Regardless of marriage, everything changes, individuals change, and so does their relating. The idea of marriage can create a simulacrum of relating, a frame of reference, but it cannot inspire genuine desire to do so; that is up to the individuals themselves.
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And so relating itself is what is real. And that shifts and changes, it dies and is reborn within the individuals themselves. In love and true relating there are no guarantees, because none of these can exist without freedom and individuality.
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@mistermircea for your thoughtful reply - greatly appreciated!
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"Not even life itself" is a difficult one to grasp. The universe and it's infiniteness comes to MY mind quickly wanting to negate that.
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I agree with you in the abstract, but neither you nor I are the universe. The life we know is that of a human being, and that is what I meant by 'life'.
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How does an end make something more real?
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Various ways to think of it (objectively). We do not know presence except by absence, and vice versa. We cannot distinguish space and time from our level of perception, therefore we only know what is real in terms of time e.g. having a beginning and and end, and so on.
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Money.
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Memento mori
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dreams?
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