The flip is also that we experience fear, pain, anguish etc. Attachment to life brings in both polarities, can't have one without the other.
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Replying to @mistermircea @then_there_was
So you see, fear of death is our biggest bug, and our biggest feature. We cannot escape it, but we can learn from it.
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Replying to @mistermircea
Do you think it's possible for a human to overcome this fear of death? At least on a conscious level?
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Replying to @then_there_was
It will only be overcome if and when humans succeed in immortality. But the question is not one of overcoming. It's one of understanding.
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Replying to @mistermircea @then_there_was
Being conscious of death is a given. Becoming conscious of your built in fear of death, of which all fears are merely an echo of, is not.
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Replying to @mistermircea @then_there_was
Therefore the more you inquire into the nature of the fear of death, you are also inquiring into your own nature as a human.
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Replying to @mistermircea
Is this why so some people avoid talking about their own deaths? Because it means to confront our personal selves?
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Replying to @then_there_was
It means to confront the fact that deep down there is no self. Everything they hold on to will be no more after they die.
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Replying to @mistermircea @then_there_was
Everything is transient. Thoughts pass, situations pass, everything goes. There is beauty and horror in this.
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Replying to @mistermircea @then_there_was
Beauty and horrible are both there. Your level of consciousness will dictate what you see in it, and what you choose to do with it.
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Peterson states as much when he says that either nothing matters or everything matters. Nature is amoral. What matters is your consciousness
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