Persons who work in the advertising industry would strongly disagree.Nope. Religion promises to end your fears over death. Spending does not.
Persons who work in the advertising industry would strongly disagree.Nope. Religion promises to end your fears over death. Spending does not.
No, they know it too. They, of course, try to sell the myth that their car/shirt/fast food/gun will make you sexy, strong and immortal. And I am sure a few fools believe them. But the people themselves? They know exactly how to craft the empty lies that are most advertising.Persons who work in the advertising industry would strongly disagree.
Once again, many persons who work in the advertising industry would strongly disagree that anyone exclusively utilizes "rationality" in the pursuit of their values.No, they know it too. They, of course, try to sell the myth that their car/shirt/fast food/gun will make you sexy, strong and immortal. And I am sure a few fools believe them. But the people themselves? They know exactly how to craft the empty lies that are most advertising.
Nevertheless, spending does not promise to end your fears over death. Every rational person knows that buying a new SUV will not prevent death or even delay it. But almost every religion promises eternal life.
The thought of a hereafter existence is comforting but delusional.
Ah, but there is so much material acquisition!Fixed that for you
And if the inevitable glass ceiling of material acquisition rears its ugly head, then one is left to fantasize.
No; it suggests that the patient has given up the struggle to make sense of an increasingly difficult reality and is free to focus on a single coherent thought for a very short time. And, of course, this applies to a few patients, not the majority.Among the strange phenomena reported on deathbeds (apparitions, visions, telepathic experiences) is one called terminal lucidity in which a patient with a poorly functioning brain (Alzheimers, schizophrenia, coma) returns one last time in perfect lucidity and even carries on a normal conversation with their loved ones before dying. Doesn't this suggest to you some sort of continuity beyond death or at least some sort of independence of the person from their brain?
No; it suggests that the patient has given up the struggle to make sense of an increasingly difficult reality and is free to focus on a single coherent thought for a very short time. And, of course, this applies to a few patients, not the majority.
No one uses rationality exclusively for ANYTHING.Once again, many persons who work in the advertising industry would strongly disagree that anyone exclusively utilizes "rationality" in the pursuit of their values.
There is?Ah, but there is so much material acquisition!
http://www.theincrediblylongjourney.com/2017/04/17/treasures-of-the-vatican/
You are just harping on about your personal vendetta against religion to avoid looking at the bigger picture here. EEVERYONE (aside perhaps from the insane and diseased) participates wholeheartedly in submission to narratives in pursuit of the promise of continued existence. By intelligence, we can bridge the gap to a scenario where the body perishes, but this does nothing to stave off the inherent, irresistible attraction to the permanent or the fear of the removal of such things.No one uses rationality exclusively for ANYTHING.
People who are unusually devoid of rationality are easy prey for religious hucksters, who promise them an end to the fear of death.
That's not true.EEVERYONE (aside perhaps from the insane and diseased) participates wholeheartedly in submission to narratives in pursuit of the promise of continued existence.
That's not the same thing. And it's not true either.the inherent, irresistible attraction to the permanent
Yet by dint of participating in society as a "means of production", you are offered no reprieve from the onslaughts of submitting to someone else's "wishful thinking".Every afterlife I've ever heard of was the result of someone's wishful thinking.
Death doesn't have equal value to life, in many cases it has greater value. For the young and healthy, this might be a sign of despair, but at the end of a long life, one might anticipate oblivion with good cheer. I find the prospect of an endless life something akin to endless suffering.To say that one has no problem with something ceasing to exist is to say that it has equal value in it's existent or nonexistent state ... IOW it is valueless. This sort of indifference to the prospect of existence is contrary to the nature of existence in anyone who is sane or in an otherwise diseased state.
You are talking about the onslaught of disease and old age as things that disturb the value of life rather than death having an inherent value.Death doesn't have equal value to life, in many cases it has greater value. For the young and healthy, this might be a sign of despair, but at the end of a long life, one might anticipate oblivion with good cheer. I find the prospect of an endless life something akin to endless suffering.
Speak for yourself please.EEVERYONE (aside perhaps from the insane and diseased) participates wholeheartedly in submission to narratives in pursuit of the promise of continued existence.
You asked what it suggests. Perhaps not everything has been written up, as yet.No..a patient cannot bypass the brain damage of Alzheimers or schizophrenia or a coma by simply focusing their thoughts. That's ridiculous. There is no evidence for such an ability in any medical journal.
This is one of those cute distortions of another's post that I find so distasteful in your methodology and, indeed, your ilk.You are talking about the onslaught of disease and old age as things that disturb the value of life rather than death having an inherent value.
You asked what it suggests. Perhaps not everything has been written up, as yet.
What would the damn thing use for energy?
Incorrect.This is one of those cute distortions of another's post that I find so distasteful in your methodology and, indeed, your ilk.
Spidergoat didn't say "inherent".
All value is subjective.
The relative value of life and death are entirely dependent on an individual's circumstances.
As already mentioned, individuals who work in the advertising industry would disagree. There is a vast archetype behind notions of "enjoyment and health" that seeks conformity in everyone's behaviour and doesn't rely on anyone's voluntary participation. Before desire, we are powerless.Speak for yourself please.
Other than ways to extend my current lifespan, and remain healthy enough to enjoy it, any promises of continued existence on the other side of death hold no truck with me. Nor, I'll wager, a lot of other people.