Thursday 30/07/2020 7:56pm
Dear future historian,
Still most of my peers at uni think immortality is a
terrible idea (In the philosophy forum.)
As I might have mentioned before, I was -and still am- quite surprised when I started this ongoing conversation, about 20 years ago, and I found out how much everyone seemed to be terrified by thoughts of immortality. Even death seems less scary to most people that endless life.
‘Men have made death into their escape route,’ The School
of Gods Stefano D’Anna.
What most shocked me was the connection no one made to the
possibility of being able -since its 'done' once to you- to find a way to make
your loved ones immortal. No one made the connection of immortality and the
possibility of Love (with partners, kids and friends) Forever.
Oh, no.. sorry, I forgot. Some did make that connection. And
they weren't ashamed to admit that a possibility like that would be like hell
on Earth for them! Their only fear was the possibility of life-death cycles,
reincarnating in 'teams' again and again. If that's not the case, then death is
a kind of salvation it seems from bad relationships, brushing your teeth…
Sorry I have to go.
Friday 31/07/2020 10:04pm
Dear future historian,
Where were we? Oh yes, we left it where people would prefer
to die than keep brushing their teeth for 1000 years or stay with their 'loved
ones.'
Oups, I have to go again.
Sunday 2/8/2020
Dear future historian,
Yesterday I.. again didn’t write to you. But I only said
every even number day of the calendar so, I decided to not get upset with
myself for having the word file open all day and not adding a single word. It
is a very thin line, to not let yourself procrastinate but also allow yourself
some time off, some time to relax.
Anyway, back to our topic. ‘The salvation of death.’ How people
find noble to die and sacrifice for their loved ones, but hellish to live
forever with them. Except if they are in a movie, or a book, a poem, a song, a legend,
a myth..
The think with relationships is that they are like a mirror.
And most of us don’t want to know how we look like, what kind of people we are,
what kind of people we attract. And when, inevitably in a life-long relationship,
we do SEE.. then we create stories in our heads that try to explain the other
person (the mirror image) without us in the equation. And then we hope death
will come before our cover-story is revealed for what is really is, an excuse,
a false-news story that makes as a martyr and covers every trace of our
responsibility.
People would easily die for their loved ones, but who would Live
for them.. with them?
There is only one serious question. And that is: Who
knows how to make love stay?
Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill
yourself.
Answer me that and I will ease your mind about the
beginning and end of time.
Answer me that and I will reveal to you the purpose of
the moon.
Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker
The point of life of course is not to stay in bad
relationships, in order to know your bad self better, or whatever. The point is
not actually there at all, maybe, and if we are to set our own purpose, we
better be smarter that that. Sometimes people just need to move forward, releasing
each other, and that’s OK. That helps to avoid the death-escape-plan. And it is
a shame that society, family and friends, usually make this so much more awkward
that is had to be.
In a way it is when we allow dead-relationships and deadly-mindsets
to.. die, when we don’t stay in a zombie situation.. that we can avoid
death-thoughts.
Still.. the question remains..
Who knows how to make love stay?
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