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Originally Posted by Idyllic
but if their is no God, no afterlife, then where to go when I die????
What is it all this living and suffering for,
will I never see my dead cat again,
that's so boring and mundane, death just ends it all huh?????
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I like some of the positions taken by Camus and Sartre. It's in our realization of death that we are spurred to find meaning in life. Without meaning in life, then what's the point in living it in the first place? Life is about experience, and in that experience we seek meaning.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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