On David Hume and his refusal to embrace faith as he neared death.
"Hume responded that he was no more perturbed by the idea of ceasing to exist than by the idea that he had not existed before he was born."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I often think that most people want to live longer while, at the same time, they want things immediately. The perspective of growing old should be an invitation to procrastination.
PontifexMarximus
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July 18, 2019
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Why fear the inevitable? What good does it do? What difference does it make?
Heraclitus
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July 7, 2019
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He lived his life to the fuillest of his ability.
Bungaloebob
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July 7, 2019
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One should embrace their time here as a gift and be happy about that instead of wanting more.
JackPedigo
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July 6, 2019
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It is not even a gift, it just is.
@Mitch07102 I like to think of it as luck (for some). How many individual personalities can live on a planet (any planet any size)? I came up with an infinite amount. The odds of me or any individual gaining consciousness is infinitesimal so I like to think we have hit life's grand jackpot. That alone should suffice and anything more is just plain greed.
I guess he's right. I must admit I loved the hope of eternal life when I was a Christian.
brentan
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July 6, 2019
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You are eternal. That life thing is a stretch. We will all go back to the energy we came from.
@Mitch07102 Perhaps but not in the sense I understood it.
When my grandmother dragged me to church the padre mumbled something about eternal life, I was horrified. I found it painful enough to sit reasonably still for one hour wedged between old women draped in black and snoring away and smelling of a mix of moth powder and lavender perfumes.
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