>>12030861The only fear we have is by extension sourced, whether we are aware of it or not, from a fear of death. Unless we have this, we are never pushed to the depths and heights that make us truly experience what it means to be human.
>If every human lived for an eternity and experienced none of the pains the passage of time brings upon our bodiesA core argument of mine is that this is not possible. Existence is nice, yes. But it's temporary. All things pass. If this property was false, existence would be false. It's inherent.
It's pleasurable to hide from it, to imagine and fantasize, but that imagination is rooted in the fear. Death is not actually something to be afraid of. I know I'm not, I've grown accustomed to it through first and second hand experience. Of course you can't inherently experience death first hand, but you can taste it, I banged my head really hard, which after I came to was revelatory, that specific event among others amplified by the memory of my uncle who died by banging his head on the hospital floor after a seizure in his 40s.
