Setanta wrote:
To Piffka: I have not wished to be unkind to you;
I would never want to be unkind to you, either. Truly I meant no offense. I sort of liked the image, but only with gentle humor.
I apologize to anyone who felt I was mocking Setanta's or your own beliefs. It is hard enough to really know what my own are, they have certainly changed with time. Perhaps in my old & doddering age I will forget altogether.
I also like life. And I like what Husker's (long!) link said -- By living in the present you are already living an eternal life.
Quote:If I have a 'new' thought, it is that my world, or what I started off calling this, seems to occupy a 'timeless present' analogous to that traditionally ascribed to the Deity. Wittgenstein once wrote, 'Eternal life belongs to one who lives in the present.'
As I've seen family & friends leave this vale of tears, there have been several moments of considering my own demise. Who hasn't had that moment of lying awake wondering what death will be like? Lucky, you are, if you haven't wondered in illness, "Is the moment close at hand?"
For me, there were moments of sheer terror, hand-clutching fear, because it will come. There is no stopping death.
Meanwhile, it is better to keep on keeping on -- be as happy as possible and try to make the lives of those around you as easy as possible. If that means easing my own way out, at the very end, I would do that. I hope it doesn't come to that. Meanwhile, I'm trying to live in the present.