I don’t look for peace in another life.One of my main arguments against religion is that it makes people passive. I don’t think life is meant to come around twice. So whatever it is, we’ve got to do it now.

I’ve been thinking a lot about death and how short our time is here, and perhaps it’s a unique perspective as someone who doesn’t necessarily believe in a god or a heaven at all (although I admit I can never KNOW what there is beyond verifiable fact, I live my life these days as if LIFE, the here and the now that you can SEE, is all there is). One’s death is both a profound and a meaningless thing, in the eyes of the universe—in the grand scheme of things. I think it is some kind of a reprieve from the struggles of life, perhaps in the Buddhist sense of “nirvana” or nothingness. But you also don’t get to see the people you care about anymore, or make a difference in the world. That’s why all beings have an instinctual drive to cling to life, to their last breath. (I think we all have some inherent knowledge or at least fear that there is nothing more once they put us 6 feet under, so we fight to keep our lives.)

I think it’s important to strive to make the world a better place while you are here, at least for the people around you. There are many ways to strive to build a legacy, some may be selfish, but I think on the whole it’s important, and we all want to leave our mark in some way.
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Life is but a dream; and we fear death because we don’t understand it. Let us enjoy life because we can never get back to this dimension of consciousness again. Death is just an evolution, we will all come to it, it’s a beginning to a higher level.

Definitely, nobody knows what happens after death and I am highly wary of anybody who claims they know. Of course, there’s enough to be said about faith, but even faith has doubt in it (or it wouldn’t exist). I feel that people who are so insistent on something having to happen after death that they are defendant of people who don’t agree are looking to overcompensate for something else.

I think we all have some kind of fear of death, by the way, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it in itself.

I lost my cousin this year which I grew up together. I was a bit scared the first few hours but then I accepted it and learnt from it. I don’t know if there will be something after death. Nobody knows, even those who says they can see something can’t be sure.

Another interesting thing is that most people assume that there’s something *good* after death. Again, nobody knows.

Anyway, I’m not scared of death, it’s a natural state and nature will take care of it, but I also know that all what I have is now, and the rest is only an illusion, so I try to make the best of it.
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I really like what you said about fooling ourselves when we give away our power. Because we look at it like a crime when these leaders screw things up. Just like corporations, they screw people over and show them the fine print. Insurance companies don’t exist because they help people they only help a certain amount of people in the criteria if they don’t they broke.

I sent you an email a few days ago was wondering if you got it. You wanted to “pick my brain” so just replied to that. Let me know.

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I’m nervous and excited about the video post, but I guess it’s high time I did it anyway. I have you and Glen to thank for giving me that little push. That would be a really interesting video by the way. Maybe something like you have a general question and each blogger answers it? Like asking a question on Twitter and then collecting the answers you get.

By giving away power, we’re not only fooling ourselves (because we’re still responsible for whatever decision we make), but we’re effectively pissing our lives away because we’re giving permission to other people to decide what we get out of life. And we suffer the consequences for it. I don’t know if you’ve read Deschooling Society, but there’s a lot about giving up power. Here’s the link for the whole book if you haven’t read it:
http://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1970_deschooling.html

The truth is “comfort” really isn’t. The people who strive for comfort and guarantees spend way too much time worrying about anything that threatens that comfort. And, guess what, everything is a threat to that comfort. Who’s comfortable now?