Of course if I do not exist it will not bother me.
The point is that it bothers me NOW.
Why?
Well I love watching progress. As noted above in my comments about the Grand Canyon, I felt so small. I guess I want to leave something of me beyond my grandkids. Most of us are forgotten after that. Also, looking at the Grand Canyon, thinking that it took 5 million years to form it but and the rock it revealed is up to 2 billion years old but the earth is 4.5 billion years, well, I just felt so insignificant. I want to know what the world is going to be like 50 or 100 years from now. What will people do, will there be issue from global warming, how if at all will it be solved. What new technologies will emerge, will humans get along better. 50, 60, 70 Old Testament 80 years just seems to short!
So I hope there is more. But I am not pining away about. Just think about it some.
I agree, I'm very curious about progress, too. But, on the other hand, I also fear we're destroying the planet, and we might be lucky not to be around to see it.
Also, I think death is a necessity for others to be able to progress. It's a necessity for physical evolution as well as social evolution - letter the younger, hopefully improved, lot have a go at it. I wish them well.
Personally, I imagine I will be so daggone tired and worn out by the time I'm eighty or so, I'll be relieved not to have to keep living much longer than that.
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
I agree, I'm very curious about progress, too. But, on the other hand, I also fear we're destroying the planet, and we might be lucky not to be around to see it.
Yea it is pretty scary at times. There are days I think it will be better for me personally to be gone.
Also, I think death is a necessity for others to be able to progress. It's a necessity for physical evolution as well as social evolution - letter the younger, hopefully improved, lot have a go at it. I wish them well.
Certainly I do to. If we all lived forever on earth as it is now it would be a problem.
Personally, I imagine I will be so daggone tired and worn out by the time I'm eighty or so, I'll be relieved not to have to keep living much longer than that.
Yes I can see that too if we make it even that long. On the other hand, eternity as a perfected immortal being may have its pluses.