04-12-2011, 12:01 AM
Nu Lang wrote:
Lets explore this idea of isolation a bit more....just losing all your friends, those who show you any kindness in this life, that alone is enough to make one not want to live any longer. No one here has had that happen, but we can imagine it...
There is a Twilight Zone episode where the man loses his identity, so his wife, boss and friends, absolutely everyone he knows does not recognize him, to them he is a complete stranger...imagine that happening to any of us and that is what journeying infinity alone would be like. Who'd want that? Always we need at least a friend, as my avatar shows. Its from Midnight Cowboy, a movie where the end scene ushers in that mood of loneliness and thus highlights just how important friends are, whether they are family members, people we know, or warriors we know, but I say especially journey with warriors, because without them we cannot express our seeing as we do.
What you are describing is a dependency on "others", as well as the assumption that we continue AFTER death the same as we are prior to death. There is nothing to suggest we will want or need "company". Personally, I like to hope those I love will be with me in some "afterlife", but I have no evidence that anyone was with me BEFORE I was born, so there is nothing to suggest others will be with me after I die. Occam's razor.
Just an observation.
Lets explore this idea of isolation a bit more....just losing all your friends, those who show you any kindness in this life, that alone is enough to make one not want to live any longer. No one here has had that happen, but we can imagine it...
There is a Twilight Zone episode where the man loses his identity, so his wife, boss and friends, absolutely everyone he knows does not recognize him, to them he is a complete stranger...imagine that happening to any of us and that is what journeying infinity alone would be like. Who'd want that? Always we need at least a friend, as my avatar shows. Its from Midnight Cowboy, a movie where the end scene ushers in that mood of loneliness and thus highlights just how important friends are, whether they are family members, people we know, or warriors we know, but I say especially journey with warriors, because without them we cannot express our seeing as we do.
What you are describing is a dependency on "others", as well as the assumption that we continue AFTER death the same as we are prior to death. There is nothing to suggest we will want or need "company". Personally, I like to hope those I love will be with me in some "afterlife", but I have no evidence that anyone was with me BEFORE I was born, so there is nothing to suggest others will be with me after I die. Occam's razor.
Just an observation.