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Uncertainty Farid is in Dallas and Iman lives in London Canada. This weblog is a place to share our idea with our friends. We would like to talk about many interesting subjects like philosophy, Anthropology, Human Rights, Religion, Ethics, Medicine (especially surgery), Science and Music..
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Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Death(19)
immortality In my last post I quoted a very emphatic quote about immortality as a start to write more on this topic in a way that effects the question of death directly. Issue of death is so closely related to the concept of immortality. Human’s instinct to avoid death is in a sense a desire for immortality. People either believe in life after death or not, and this belief can vary over a spectrum with one extreme ending in a frail notion gained for no obvious reason , reaching next to intellectual or cognitive belief, getting stronger and stronger as certainly, conviction, certitude and then reaching to affective experiences like trance, vision, or the luminous. Those who don’t believe in it, can be troubled to varying degrees from the thought of death and those who do believe in it may enjoy the advantage of minifying this fear or based on their idea of what that afterlife has to offer even anticipate it with different degrees of impatience. Of course there are some who cannot be placed in any of these two categories, and that’s why I took the caution of expressing them more in a tentative rather than definitive term with using “can be” and “may”. We cannot put those who are bored with life or the burden of it has become insufferable to them and decide to end it but also don’t believe in an afterlife in one of these categories. But apart from this and some other exceptions which constitute a small minority, I think that this is the general state of the matter that belief in an afterlife puts the person’s mind much more in ease with death. I will have posts on some examples about this particular case later, but now I mainly intend to focus on defining the terminology of immortality itself as a firm basis for what I will write later. Since this post has gotten too big already, I defer it to the next one. (posted by Farid) Posted:Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
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