@zhivago10506 certain atheists and professional nihilists can at times be just as shallow and very inappropriately proud of themselves as certain christians, same coin two sides.. all I think of in those situations is "don't break your arm from patting yourself on the back so hard for tossing babies and bath water out of ten story windows one after another... splat, splat, splat splat"
Who would want to live forever? Who would want to take that risk? The ultimate risk?
It is better to die too soon than too late. Just look at Nietszche.
Death is not the problem, death is the gift, death is the comfort, death is the whistle at end of a war that turns the whole thing into just a game.
The inscrutable problem is of existence itself, and the fear of death within existing. Between the struggle to cope with existence and the fear of death lies the tension and anxiety.
How does one determine their Destiny in order to find their "authentic" self?
i think Heidegger is 100% right about people needing to keep busy to ward off death, we also keep people busy to lower crime, ultimately it comes down to a famous biblical question
"Where Death Is Thy Sting". if the answer to Death is that, "thats it" nothing else, the road to nihilism and senselessness is steep and fast. Death cannot be the end, because life has too much misery and unhappiness to continue.
Staggering lecture by a brilliant man. Remember Jim Fixx? That motherfucker jogged all his life, wrote BOOKS on jogging, ate tofu all the time and then one day, whilst jogging - HAD A HEART ATTACK and... died. Pointless.
@pulsating123 YES! Old Goatboy does a great bit on Fixx. "Left foot, right foot, blood spurts out nose?".
GordonMorrice 1 year ago
@zhivago10506 certain atheists and professional nihilists can at times be just as shallow and very inappropriately proud of themselves as certain christians, same coin two sides.. all I think of in those situations is "don't break your arm from patting yourself on the back so hard for tossing babies and bath water out of ten story windows one after another... splat, splat, splat splat"
pulsating123 1 year ago
@GordonMorrice bill hicks
pulsating123 1 year ago
Who would want to live forever? Who would want to take that risk? The ultimate risk?
It is better to die too soon than too late. Just look at Nietszche.
Death is not the problem, death is the gift, death is the comfort, death is the whistle at end of a war that turns the whole thing into just a game.
The inscrutable problem is of existence itself, and the fear of death within existing. Between the struggle to cope with existence and the fear of death lies the tension and anxiety.
Grayto 2 years ago
It is the achievement of Christianity to give an answer to the question "Where Death Is Thy Sting", to give people Hope.
This is not to preach but to recognize the hopelessness of not addressing the issue of death and what is 'life's purpose".
In Bahese (the language of Bali), the word for an atheist is the same as the word for lunatic. maybe it is lunacy to think that Death is the end.
zhivago10506 2 years ago
How does one determine their Destiny in order to find their "authentic" self?
i think Heidegger is 100% right about people needing to keep busy to ward off death, we also keep people busy to lower crime, ultimately it comes down to a famous biblical question
"Where Death Is Thy Sting". if the answer to Death is that, "thats it" nothing else, the road to nihilism and senselessness is steep and fast. Death cannot be the end, because life has too much misery and unhappiness to continue.
zhivago10506 2 years ago
Staggering lecture by a brilliant man. Remember Jim Fixx? That motherfucker jogged all his life, wrote BOOKS on jogging, ate tofu all the time and then one day, whilst jogging - HAD A HEART ATTACK and... died. Pointless.
GordonMorrice 3 years ago