In conversation with a few atheists I have heard some of them say that they do not like the idea of death being "nothing." I find this hard to understand. Sure, I don't like the idea of dying but I cannot say I fear death. So after my last thought flickers out of existence and my body starts it's slow decay into atoms there is nothing (at least I am mostly sure of this). What is so bad about that? It's not like I can "feel" the time pass by and I'm bored by it or anything. I often compare it to the time before you were born. Did you miss the Renaissance because you were not alive? No, you didn't have any consciousness to be able to miss it. It's the same thing.
In a way, we are immortal. When we were born it was as if time began, for our own consciousness anyway. When we die it is as if time is obliterated. Everything in between is reality. From our perspective, and only our perspective, it is as if we are immortal since we exist when time begins and ends. I know this is a weird way of looking at it but that's nothing new for my thinking.
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In a way, we are immortal. When we were born it was as if time began, for our own consciousness anyway. When we die it is as if time is obliterated. Everything in between is reality. From our perspective, and only our perspective, it is as if we are immortal since we exist when time begins and ends. I know this is a weird way of looking at it but that's nothing new for my thinking.
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