Obviously this was a steemit post, not a treatise (steemit post = long articles do not get read).
It would be interesting to do a study of how believing in life after death affects us and could society survive the restrictions placed on us if most parts of that society did not believe they have something better waiting for them.
Even those religions that believe we return to live again and again, they qualify it by expressing the belief that our souls evolve, until we have achieved the ultimate purity and no longer need to return to live another tortured existence.
In my book Little Cherine, I, as their author, has assumed they will have eternal life (achieved by enhancing their healing powers which also rejuvenate them, keeping them at whichever age they prefer to be). In book 13, I suggested I may have made a mistake....so now they are arguing the matter, trying to decide whether they should choose to have a set life span, or maybe, an end to their life once life has no meaning - but there are other solutions which could rekindle their interest in life, without them taking the ultimate decision to stop existing.
I am bookmarking your article, as I just might decided to pass on the relevant part of it for them to add to their debates (Okay?)
As always, thanks for making me think of new ways (to me) of looking at life and fuelling my mental schizophrenia.
I think it would be beneficial. many would stop hoping for something better, and work to create it here instead :)
All of that is an attempt to make sense of why bad things happen in an assumption of an "ordered" and "good" universe, and possibly run by some "ordered" and "good" "God", etc. To justify the bad, it's part of "lessons" we need to "learn" in order to "Evolve" and return to "source". I've been through all the bs a while ago. The wonder and feeling "special" is enticing.
Life has meaning. We don't need invented imaginary beliefs to give it meaning. Nihilism is a dark place :/
Sure thing, pass it along as you please ;)
Thanks - I hope you did understand I meant I will quote your article in the book, offering them your ideas for them to add to all they must consider.
I must admit, now that I remember to say it, it is not so much my own death that frightens me - or feels such a waste; it is the idea of anyone I love dying. That is what I cannot bear