I'm reading the new Yalom book at the moment ('Staring at the sun: Overcoming the Dread of Death' - chirpy title, innit?) and he talks in it about finding solace in Epicurus's third argument against death anxiety: the argument of symmetry, i.e. our lives are sandwiched between two states of non-being (the time before our birth, and the time after death) - identical, and yet, as Yalom remarks, "we have so much fear about the second pool of darkness and so little concern about the first". When I read this, I felt a certain sense of relief, because it's true, I can wholly 'deal with' the nothingness before me, it's the nothingness after me that rankles, but why should it?
Another day at the office.
6 comments:
Terrific! [or terrifying]
Funny anyway.
grate idea! And I loved "philosophers"!
Well. Really great piece!
The balance between the new beginning and the time for departure to heaven....
Brilliant!
I'm reading the new Yalom book at the moment ('Staring at the sun: Overcoming the Dread of Death' - chirpy title, innit?) and he talks in it about finding solace in Epicurus's third argument against death anxiety: the argument of symmetry, i.e. our lives are sandwiched between two states of non-being (the time before our birth, and the time after death) - identical, and yet, as Yalom remarks, "we have so much fear about the second pool of darkness and so little concern about the first". When I read this, I felt a certain sense of relief, because it's true, I can wholly 'deal with' the nothingness before me, it's the nothingness after me that rankles, but why should it?
This pic reminded me of this...
Niiiceeee.....
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