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Monday, January 30, 2023

What Happens When We Die – The Marginalian

"…Whatever our beliefs, these sensemaking playthings of the mind, when the moment of material undoing comes, we — creatures of moment and matter — simply cannot fathom how something as exquisite as the universe of thought and feeling inside us can vanish into nothingness. 

Even if we understand that dying is the token of our existential luckiness, even if we understand that we are borrowed stardust, bound to be returned to the universe that made it — a universe itself slouching toward nothingness as its stars are slowly burning out their energy to leave a cold austere darkness of pure spacetime — this understanding blurs into an anxious disembodied abstraction as the body slouches toward dissolution. Animated by electrical impulses and temporal interactions of matter, our finite minds simply cannot grasp a timeless and infinite inanimacy — a void beyond being..."

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/01/10/alan-lightman-death/

2 comments:

  1. Even if we don't believe in something now; we'll believe in something when time comes to past. If we already believe in something before this time comes you'll either have doubts of what you believe, or you'll have everlasting acceptance of your death.

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  2. There is one guy who defeated death. His name is Jesus. The reason I have hope in this is because something had to have happened that caused 11 people to start telling everyone about him risking their own lives. They were willing to gain nothing (no fame, no money, no social social status) and die for something they saw. So I think that Jesus rose from the dead and appeared to the apostles and it spark courage in the men and women he appeared to.

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