At the annual Quebec trip, I was talking to one of Luke's friends, although I'm not sure which one bc his identity kept shifting and changing
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Transition is typically uncomfortable, at the least. Human beings are creatures of habit. We develop a false sense of security by surrounding ourselves in the same things, by limiting our world to a very small part of what is actually there. (This ties in with what you said about human beings believing they're important, too. The smaller a person makes his pond, the easier it is to be a big fish. And we all want to be big fish.)
I really like your definition of the average person.
The average people who are content to settle into a routine and never deviate from a path that is well-travelled.
With regards to that statement and death . . . well . . . I would say death is THE most travelled route. Why don't we feel anymore comfortable or fear it less? Because we still don't fully understand what happens afterward. How will fearing it help anything? Survival is the only excuse I can think of, and I don't even like calling it "survival", since we're unsure of what happens afterward. Who's to say we don't have another life or that the consciousness does not remain after death? Just because it is not manifested in the physical body anymore does not mean it went out of existence. I'm not saying this is what I believe either. I'm merely posing possibilities that cannot be ruled out.
Hmm . . . I wonder exactly what correlation there is between fear and ignorance. Do the two feed off each other? If I'm ignorant of something, then I am likely to fear it--like picking up a possibly poisonous spider. Fear often prompts people to avoid things as well, limiting their own worlds to where they feel comfortable. Therefore, they don't branch out and limit the knowledge they can attain.
I really like your definition of the average person.
The average people who are content to settle into a routine and never deviate from a path that is well-travelled.
With regards to that statement and death . . . well . . . I would say death is THE most travelled route. Why don't we feel anymore comfortable or fear it less? Because we still don't fully understand what happens afterward. How will fearing it help anything? Survival is the only excuse I can think of, and I don't even like calling it "survival", since we're unsure of what happens afterward. Who's to say we don't have another life or that the consciousness does not remain after death? Just because it is not manifested in the physical body anymore does not mean it went out of existence. I'm not saying this is what I believe either. I'm merely posing possibilities that cannot be ruled out.
Hmm . . . I wonder exactly what correlation there is between fear and ignorance. Do the two feed off each other? If I'm ignorant of something, then I am likely to fear it--like picking up a possibly poisonous spider. Fear often prompts people to avoid things as well, limiting their own worlds to where they feel comfortable. Therefore, they don't branch out and limit the knowledge they can attain.
Thanks for the great comment. =)
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