Days have gone by too slowly this past week, time has that habit, we all know it, that it plays with us. We're not what one would call guinea pigs because time doesn't experiment with us, it just amuses it self with our pitiful rants and complaints of how bad he treats us. We're a board game to time.
Yet, what I've found out recently is what exactly gives Time that enormous value that it has, and, ironically, it's death, think about, and read what Ray Kurzweil has to say about it:
"Take death for example; a great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives; it gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. If death were indefinitely put off the human psyche would end up... well, like the gambler in the Twilight Zone episode."
I just happen to be in complete accordance with him, but lets think about it a bit, constantly people are making "life plans", "List of thing to do before I die", "life goals", etc. If death didn't exist, we would all be able to take our time and do things whenever the chance presented itself, everything aside that, would be simple commodity.
Unfortunately, the fact that Death gives meaning to Time, means it give importance to other things, simple and yet complex life experiences. Would a sky diver feel the same rush??? Would a mountain climber climbing the Everest and reaching the top really make a difference in a world where Death doesn't exist??? The whole point of completing these hazardous events is that there is a possibility one might die, and that is why not everyone is capable of surviving a climb to highest peek in the world, or to even go through something that might endanger them.
Danger would cease to exist, Fear, because most fears are based on the chance of dying, would cease to exist as well, though some of the other more complex "Fears" deal with specific things, but I'm talking about more primal, instinctive fears. Imagine a Claustrophobic standing in front of a starved lion ina closed space, would that person be afraid of the fact that he or she is inside a closed cell, or that simply you might die being devoured by the lion??? Again, death brings meaning to everything.
...You love because you don't know how long you're going to be here, you love intensely because you know you will die, we procreate because it's the most efficient way to, in a way, become immortal while becoming dust. Now, certain people seek other ways to reach this "Immortality", they're called writers, inventors, scientists, doctors, artists, muscians, among others, they will die, their work and art wont, or at least it will outlive them far longer.
Eventually, a person would go mad, after seeing, experiencing, so much, memory would start to fade, all that rutine and monotony that will, at some point, engulf a person, the idea that he has seen everything there's to see, and will see, there would be nothing new, nothing worth living for, would drive this absolutle past the brink of insanity.
So what would be the point of not dying if there wasn't anything worth living for???
Yet, what I've found out recently is what exactly gives Time that enormous value that it has, and, ironically, it's death, think about, and read what Ray Kurzweil has to say about it:
"Take death for example; a great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives; it gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. If death were indefinitely put off the human psyche would end up... well, like the gambler in the Twilight Zone episode."
I just happen to be in complete accordance with him, but lets think about it a bit, constantly people are making "life plans", "List of thing to do before I die", "life goals", etc. If death didn't exist, we would all be able to take our time and do things whenever the chance presented itself, everything aside that, would be simple commodity.
Unfortunately, the fact that Death gives meaning to Time, means it give importance to other things, simple and yet complex life experiences. Would a sky diver feel the same rush??? Would a mountain climber climbing the Everest and reaching the top really make a difference in a world where Death doesn't exist??? The whole point of completing these hazardous events is that there is a possibility one might die, and that is why not everyone is capable of surviving a climb to highest peek in the world, or to even go through something that might endanger them.
Danger would cease to exist, Fear, because most fears are based on the chance of dying, would cease to exist as well, though some of the other more complex "Fears" deal with specific things, but I'm talking about more primal, instinctive fears. Imagine a Claustrophobic standing in front of a starved lion ina closed space, would that person be afraid of the fact that he or she is inside a closed cell, or that simply you might die being devoured by the lion??? Again, death brings meaning to everything.
...You love because you don't know how long you're going to be here, you love intensely because you know you will die, we procreate because it's the most efficient way to, in a way, become immortal while becoming dust. Now, certain people seek other ways to reach this "Immortality", they're called writers, inventors, scientists, doctors, artists, muscians, among others, they will die, their work and art wont, or at least it will outlive them far longer.
Eventually, a person would go mad, after seeing, experiencing, so much, memory would start to fade, all that rutine and monotony that will, at some point, engulf a person, the idea that he has seen everything there's to see, and will see, there would be nothing new, nothing worth living for, would drive this absolutle past the brink of insanity.
So what would be the point of not dying if there wasn't anything worth living for???
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