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Mark Twain once said “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it”. Why do you agree/disagree with his statement?
Mark Twain once said “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it”. Why do you agree/disagree with his statement?
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FYI, that was a joke…
Mark Twain’s sentiment reminds me of this:
“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.”
– Hans Christian Andersen
Once I wasn’t.
Now, I am.
Someday I won’t be.
Because it’s a valid point. Death is an unknown, it’s inevitable but wildly unpredictable. We’re terrified of things we can’t control, and death is the all-time #1 example of that. It’s so terrifying to people that we’ve built worldwide religions to try to explain it, we’ve conquered nations for it, enslaved and abused people for it, and even enslaved and abused ourselves for it.
I would never harm myself, but personally I can’t wait to die. If nothing else just to answer my burning questions once and for all.
It’s a nihilist statement. It’s philosophy, there are lots of different ones, and it’s up to each person to decide why they do what they do. In this case he may have just forgotten the /s
Life has as whatever meaning you believe it does.
It’s fucking stupid, it’s like saying heartbreak doesn’t suck because I was happy before we met. That’s not how time works Twain.
I dont see any reason to assume there is anything after, so why should it be scary? Dying may suck… not particularly looking forward to the process.
I’m just paranoid that something does happen after death and it’s just based on one thing that you didn’t know about