I don’t fear death as such, more the process. My mother is an evangelical Christian so that’s a hard convo ?

I don’t fear death as such, more the process. My mother is an evangelical Christian so that’s a hard convo ?

Well that sure is a different perspective. I like it, alot!!!

"Look back now and consider how the bygone ages of eternity that elapsed before our birth were nothing to us. Here, then, is a mirror in which nature shows us the time to come after our death. Do you see anything fearful in it?"

(Lucretius, De rerum natura bk III, vv. 972-75 between 99/55BC)

The Symmetry Argument

Well...there was nothing to fear before I was born, so I’m guessing death is also nothing to be afraid of. It’ll be like being asleep and not dreaming like every night when we all go to sleep and lose consciousness then resurrect in the morning when we gain consciousness.

Geology = Astronomy = Reality = Atheism = Huck Finn = I'll go to hell then rather than turn Nigga Jim into xian bounty hunters

Ummm.... I don't know if I was dead before being born. I just don't know.

When death comes I will be in the same state as I was before birth. So nothing to fear there! Mark Twain had it right.

One of my favorite quotes.

I do not fear death, but I find the human story fascinating and would like to watch it unfold across time. 80 years if I am lucky seems like a minute amount of time in the span of history.

This quote terrified me...

After I read "Letters from Earth", I considered Twain an atheist.

I dunno. Since energy can't be destroyed or created, we've always existed and will always exist. People who remember past lives, including my youngest sister and I, know life is an illusion and that we're just taking parts in various scenarios.

"For physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." -Einstein

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) was equivocal about the existence of God. He wrote a very irreverent story titled Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden which is quite funny. He often made fun of evangelical charlatan's of his day.

LOL...this is similar to the reason I don't have an excessive fear of death. If I'm not afraid of 1899, why should I be afraid of 2099?

Mark Twain — 'Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.'

Hmmmm.... that's interesting. I die every night and I'm reborn when I wake up... That's how easy that is.

Samuel Clemens and Will Rogers had a way of saying truths as images.

Love the Twain. My favorite goes something like "If you always tell the truth you don't have to remember what you said.