Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Thinking about death

Death is an endless mystery and fascinating theme in philosophy, religion and spiritual consultations. Perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that religion was created to answer the question of death. What then is the question of death? Strictly speaking, not even a question, it's just a feeling restless. The traditional questions: What happens after death? Will focus on rotting soul in my body? Without my conscious and alert eyes, the world will stillare there? It will all become an endless darkness? Where I want without me? From a secular point of view and natural materials, all these questions absurd. Without me there is no "I" and not have to ask: "Where will I be, and what will happen." Nothing will happen, the world go on without me. I no longer exist. Our existence is finite and limited, not only in time and space. I did not exist before I was born, and I will not exist after my death.Even now, I sit alone in I put in the place I am, but not in cities across the planet, which in reality ... 99.99999% of the planet and the universe. If we do not have my non-existence in all other aspects that concern me, why should I die during the period in question, I next? So, logically, there is nothing special for the period after my death. But, unfortunately, a logical response, as rarely has met most of the people. For many people the problemdeath and fear is not a logical question, after death is an emotional problem is the fear and sadness. If you want an answer as powerful as the religious answer, we must meet the emotional needs, who feel insecure, when people fill contemplate death. Our response should be, but a truthful, non-traditional religions, those based on false illusions and lies.

We have an uneasy feeling death, because we consider thisWorld, especially our eyes and perspective, then you do not know how to think the world without us. In a word, we do not know how we think about our own nonexistence. We have an uneasy feeling death, because we are longing for the infinite, eternal, forever. . I bet nobody cares about the death of another animal, even if done to prevent dangerous conduct biggest killers, but they have concerns about the cult for long-term prospects, and then, something "sacred run"only to alleviate this concern. Only species as our people may think, is that is a byproduct of our ability to think. From the perspective of evolution, are the only species that has developed this ability to care for our future. This concern, built on our ability to think, allows us the long-term planning, which brings us a great advantage in terms of competing species survival, and development of our civilization. But unfortunately, as more philosophical paradox, we extendConcepts and vocabulary extends beyond its strength. Beyond the question of what I will do tomorrow, we begin to ask what I want after my death. This is obviously wrong. We forget that should put an end to this long-term planning for us one day. But even if we know that, logically, emotionally we are so used to think about tomorrow, we can not emotionally grasp the fact that there is no tomorrow for us, that drives us crazy idea.

So what's the answer? (1)Since this creates a problem on our ability to think, we must find a response from our new ideas, (2) Since this is an emotional issue, we must shift our value systems, our desire to change our affective orientation, (3) is considered a problem only with our personal views and feelings of this world have emerged (so we do not know how to think in this world, if we think that this point of view and personal profile of one day) disappear , we need to change the way you see and hear thisWorld.

In terms of new ideas, and logical reasoning, which we have already pointed out that there is nothing outside of our death. Logically, it makes no sense to talk to me after my death. This is the end of history. Our non-existence in another place and another time only underlines the importance of our existence in its current location and current time. What we can do is focus on our present existence, and live life to the fullest. As long as we do the things we want now,and as long as these things do not catch fire damage to other people or our future is limited (before that), then we do with our enjoyment of life. As long as employment and employment start this business we make you happy, then you lose the feeling sad about death. One thing worth noting is that the focus of our work (or the effort of all religions taught) is not really good for the life after death (there is no life after death). Instead, it is onlymake us feel good when we think our death, and time after our death. So the whole point of making us happy right now. Attention is now, not after death. Since we are still alive, then the secular naturalist view, there is hope of life and death issues, or to solve a type of thought, feeling good, while we are still alive.

In terms of emotional focus and our value system, the first question we can ask: why should welong for the infinite, the eternal existence. Why this is better than the limited and temporary our existence? Because we want to be forever? Nothing is forever, nothing is static. Everything is changing, and our death is just change a part of this process, feel happy about it! From the perspective of large, our cosmos is not static. The entire universe was created by a Big Bang, and will continue to grow. In some cases (maybe not in our universe), the entire universe can move through a cycle of expansion and contraction,the Big Bang to the Big Crunch. In the small side, we can never step twice into the same river, things change around us. Many insects live for only a day or so, and most bacteria live only for hours or even minutes. So why resist change, and because the infinite value? We should change the value, we should value the ephemeral and present value. Well, can not be measured by quantity, rather it should be measured by the quality. As long as we live our lives, full, happy and enthusiasticFor every hour, so we have a good life, no matter if you live for 20 years or 80 years or forever.

One might ask if we love our present life, we feel our present moment of existence, and think, and it is good should want more for the good cause. It is natural to ask more for the good cause. So it is natural that the desire for more of our good life. Now refute such an argument, some think wrong in life. Although we strive for happiness in this life, but life is notalways 100% satisfied. There is always sadness, tragedy and suffering. exist without these negative aspects of life, the positive aspects (the luck is not good). Happiness exists as far to drive us the positive side, to guide our behavior for life to exist in competition. Happiness and sadness are the two parties in their dialectical relationship. The promise of a happy life religions still in Heaven after your death is an empty promise. Could be not only happiness without 'Bereavement support them. If there is one thing that makes you happy, do it and do it in every moment of your life, then it is too soon not be happier. Teachers in all religions, I have everything he has promised to make me look really happy forever. Honey and milk? That too could be for your health (maybe a bathroom even after death, we do not care about health, taste without our bodies, because the honey and milk is a good thing). 72 angels? That sounds nice. But only because IService are missing from this earthly life. If I have this service in the sky every day, I'm sure I'll be tired very soon. Moreover, without a body, I can not enjoy that much. So, think this way, life is not just for the good part, life is a struggle, life is an experience temporary. Sure, you can be a tireless fighter who wants to fight for life, repeat the process again and again, but it would be nice to complete the set and other young people andvigorously fight their own battle? As soon as one person told me: It 's the most horrible and terrible idea if life is really for good, never an end. As you get older, they grow less vigorously, we really have an end.

Finally, on the road to this vision of the world, to live our life, we can use our idea and practice, we have a broader perspective, and our experience with the experience of other people to connect. Then, like others who are fighting their lives to fight, is so good that youBattle for your life to fight again. In a sense, their experience is your experience. In our present culture, we place great emphasis on individualism. The problem is, it seems only individualism, nothing more. We see the world only from his experience. As a result, imagine if we lose (death), then we are not able to find another corner to see the world more. Aid sensation of a puzzle, if we think the death, and a sense oftotal loss (due to sadness and fear). What can we do to avoid these feelings is to consider a different perspective and experience to find the world to use as a backup for our point of view. Thus, in our imagination (thought process), even if we drop our own corner (imagine, we are dead), we can look at this world from another angle. You can find out other angles, we must unite our feelings, the feelings of other people around us as part and parcel of life view of the wholehumanity (or municipality). When we have the ability to think and worry about the future (the cause of our problems related to death), we also have the unique ability of compassion. We can do this skill to hear other people and finally treated for other people feeling part of their feelings and experience (and existence) as part of a larger experience (existence). If we get is that on an emotional level, then even if our individual existenceDisappears but the existence of bigger man (or just your friends) will be there for much longer. Do not worry too much our death, because we are from the bottom of the heart (emotional) that others felt there still will be knowledge, and the world keeps moving.

When we think about tomorrow and know that we live tomorrow, that's all we thought, is the guarantee that tomorrow I'll feel alive andthe world. For me, the "date me", this is only a fantasy in my head (why is not tomorrow). But this is enough to make me feel good and it was at that time. As we discussed earlier, is the feeling at this moment what is important. Well, if we think about death, thinking that there will be more than I do in the future, I'm not a good thing at this time. Well, when we have our friend, the people that we think of next, will still be there if we die, and willcontinue to feel the world, and we also know their feelings (almost as we know, ours), then what is the concern. To view the current me, the 'I' now, or tomorrow if I do not exist, that difference. Why (tomorrow, or your friend) may be only in the imagination of power is all that I can think of people feeling so good I can feel this tomorrow, then there is no difference, because life isContinuation is guaranteed. So I have to take care of others, for me I tomorrow. Behold, I am not a supporter of individualism, collectivism, or give up and embrace communism. Individualism is still important because it still fit quite naturally in our human nature. But in addition to individualism, we should share the feeling with others, and share a deep and even the inner meaning. Only we believe that our existence is part of a larger existence. As a result of ourDeath is not the end of life experience altogether. life experience of others is equally important to learn how great our lives. Well, worry about other people other people share the feeling is ultimately for the benefit of ourselves, to solve the problem of death, to make the current happy. In this sense we can live forever, because we live the lives of others. Note that other people, and tomorrow I think it is secondary to the real me. They justexists in the minds of my current. Thus, the current me is original. We must first take care of me the power. Then tomorrow we can about me, then take care of other people. So, this is still individualism, and we care is still first. We just feel the other person to take care of the list for things and share. So even if I could die tomorrow, we have other people as a continuation, as a back-up. Sharing other people feel even extend our life experience, so weis also a direct benefit to me at this time.

For such an emotional state of maintenance and dissemination of other people we need to feel love. The deep meaning of love in his care. We live in an intimate way with our friends, and is not afraid to share the intimate moments of our closest friends. This could be a change in our lifestyle, way of life. In our culture today, most of them live on an island emotional. To hear that we are part ofIn general, we must be more closely linked to share our emotions. A natural way for children to share other people feel concern for others and for ours. The knowledge that our children live on after we have passed to us so calm. Another possible way to get people to connect the feeling is our natural tendency to use to build intimacy between husband and wife for such a connection. But this may require some fundamental changes in our moral standards. This is interestingTheme of death, we have some necessary changes in our way of life derived.

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