--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <fintlewoodlewix@> wrote: > <snip> > > And yet, and yet ... of course I understand why so many > > people want to believe in heaven, even now, even in the > > face of all the evidence, and all reason. It is a way > > however futilely of trying to escape the awful > > emptiness of death. As Philip Larkin put it: "Not to be > > here/Not to be anywhere/And soon; nothing more terrible, > > nothing more true".
I know. Enlightenment sounds like such a drag. Imagine, losing the sense of individuality. No more "mine" and "Me". The horror! To die. To rot. To be nothing. We > > wouldn't be sane if we didn't seek a way to leap off > > this conveyor-belt heading towards a cliff. > > I guess I must not be sane, then, because I see the horror > at the "awful emptiness of death" as a cognitive problem, a > peculiar inability to recognize that if Nothing Comes Next, > *you won't know it*. Or anything else. People seem to think > they're going to *be* there, looking around at the > emptiness and thinking how awful it is, being nothing and > finding it excruciating, even experiencing their bodies > rotting. *That* seems insane to me. >
