I maintain of course that glorious immortality is the ultimate goal - whether people realize it or not - the great telos, the goal of life...thus on some level we can grasp or intuit the bare outlines of what lies on the other side...
Oh. I don't know about that. What if some people out there are just - you know - indifferent to the whole matter.
What? Indifferent. It's just not front and center...
Fear of death, my man! C'mon. Do you discount that?
Yes. Yes. Of Course. Fear. Panic. Dread. The pangs of growing old.... That's normal. But really that has to do less with immortality as it does fear of change in general. Death represents a huge adjustment - let's face it ...
And what follows after death...that is what people obsess over...and rightly so...
Yes, but, I'm just not sure you can say that everyone has the same vision of heaven, hell or limbo or...
Well...but everyone hopes to live forever....everyone craves the infinity of possibility that eternity represents- that sense of being able to go beyond what has been, to do or undo, to visit and re-visit ages and past lives and to make up the time....
Not for me, sorry. Can't fathom it. Wouldn't like it....
Can't fathom immortality you say....
Nope. That would be like perpetual insomnia...Ugh...
You'd rather just go asleep like a log - forever?
Wouldn't even know I was asleep. It would all go silent...
And that doesn't scare you...
Not that part....really...just getting over the cliff is what scares me....
But that's so sad....For everything to end with a "blip"....
Well...but painless...right? No regrets, no hand-wringing...no second guessing...No eternal punishments...
That's a cop-out. What about justice? The good and the base are punished with the same oblivion? That's untenable....completely unacceptable....
Well...can you imagine having to stay awake forever, having to remain conscious and aware of time past and time passing...
Oh - but it wouldn't be like that!
It would be more like the "blip" if you eliminate awareness of time...
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