Comfortable ignorance or painful truth?
The pain of life is to know life has an expiration date.
Some day all of you other than your contributions to lifes' evolution will cease to exist.
Choosing to believe that something else will be can relieve this pain if only you choose ignorance in place on intelligence.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.This is really complicated. 80% of the world is religous for a reason. I think that most people cannot rationalize not seeing there loved ones again and need a comforting story to soothe their fears.
If everybody knew the truth instantly that life is finite without some sort of good social construct to replace , most people are too lazy to come to a good understanding of morality quickly and chaos and destruction would insue. I think there is something to be said for just going through life without thinking to . If i was able i would.
crazylifter
Level 4
June 10, 2018
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I don't feel any pain around the knowledge that my life has an expiration date. If anything, it's a comfort to me. Endpoints make things tolerable.
A lot of existential angst, in my view, is predicated on deeply-entrenched cultural tropes about mortality and death as implacable enemies, as intolerable realities. When you learn to see death as simply part of life, and really accept your finite mortal existence for what it is, you learn to live within your true scope and quit longing for things that aren't for you to begin with. Wanting to be immortal is like a flea wanting to be a college professor or a toad wanting opposable thumbs.
Religious faith is in many ways just a formalized system around our fear and loathing over death, and encourages us to reject simple reality in favor of magical thinking and impertinent aspirations.
mordant
Level 8
June 10, 2018
1
Not necessarily...death could be a welcome release from pain & illness!
AnneWimsey
Level 9
June 10, 2018
1
Sure, but so would a cure for the ailment.
@x0lineage0x you have never had a truly serious illness, have you....
@AnneWimsey
If that assumption were made it would be incorrect, but the fact remains that if a problem had you welcoming death, a better solution may be to solve the problem.
I don't want to live for ever
MsDemeanour
Level 8
June 10, 2018
4
I totally want to live for ever. I have so much to do. I'll never fit it all in. I am hoping if I manage another 30 years they will have extended human life span long enough for me to have a good go...if not theres nothing else for it, I'll have to come back 
@Amisja I would not have a problem with biological immortality. Options are nice to have. But that wouldn't change the human condition as fundamentally as people think it would. It would just be different tradeoffs. There'd still be "death by misadventure" and so it'd still be a nonzero possibility of dying on any given day, just like now. You'd still have the option to stop having new experiences anytime you want, just like now.
@Amisja I'm with you on this one Amisja, I would like to have longer lifespan, if not necessarily live forever, but have a longer lifespan than what I have now. I want to see what other wonders science is going to come up with and have more time to me to learn about the things that interest me. 80 or so year to one life is not long enough to see the world today, to see a possible human landing on Mars, etc.
@Georgy303 While I'm unperturbed by my mortality, I agree that more control over the timing and manner of my death would be welcome. I am curious to see what happens with various human enterprises and trends.
I have some doubts that our minds would be well adapted to very long life -- I am unsure how one would maintain any sense of novelty beyond a certain point -- but that seems like it's be a good 500 years out because there's so much to experience and observe -- assuming that one is sufficiently curious.
I want to live as long as I like.
Painful truth. Suffering is a different thing.
ChuanZi
Level 2
June 10, 2018
1
What is your point?
I believe in my self, is that bad ?
VAL3941
Level 8
June 10, 2018
1
That's the best, VAL!
@Geoffrey51
Thank you ! Usually is as a back stop ! LOL
What is your point?
@x0lineage0x
No, what was yours ? At least I believe in something importang !
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Why post this here????
Because there was no profile or profile questions. I feel uneasy talking to people when I can't see their profile-they could be anybody. I've already encountered at least two fake people here who were private messaging me, who not only wouldn't fill them out, when asked, they refused. Time to block them.
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