Psychological death

[no-one-particular]

Aging is not just physical. Its also psychological. Physical aging ends in physical death. Psychological aging ends in psychological death.

As you age your subjective self-image of yourself as a young person begins to seem unrealistic. You begin to awaken to the fact that you were just dreaming that you were young. You begin to become old. You continue to get older and older till (psychological) death at which point you fully awaken.

Now it is indeed true that you were just dreaming that you were young. But you are also just dreaming that you are getting old. And when you die and wake up you will just be dreaming that you are waking up. And the dream will reset and start all over.

Birth - aging - death - rebirth.

As a finite mortal you only have a finite amount of time. When your time is up you wither and die like a tree without water. The Tree of eternal life is the tree of infinite time.

People living in the barren lands believe that the sun is deadly

People living in paradise believe that the sun is life giving

 

[Lion IRC]

...and when you wake up after a long sleep you feel refreshed.

 

[Politesse]

People living in the barren lands believe that the sun is deadly


People living in paradise believe that the sun is life giving

Well now, I don't think that's at all true. How many desert peoples have you actually talked to about this? You have to have a healthy respect for the sun living out on the flats, sure, but it is hardly conceived of as an enemy by anyone. It is still the source of life; simple observation shows you how critical it is to living things... Winter is as hard on the desert as anywhere else.

I also don't see what psychological death has to do with the supposed second death of Jewish eschatology, as your link suggests. Psychology is the study of the mind, which presumably dies along with the body that hosts it. One death is enough to destroy everything that a psychologist is able to study. If you're talking souls and the like, that's fine, but not the realm of psychology, which is a science and as such rooted to the empirically testable.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Mick Jagger is immortal.

 

[DBT]

Which raises the question: what is the nature of self?

 

[bilby]

Which raises the question: what is the nature of self?

It's what books shit on.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Let's go back to that rebirth part. Did you get that from an elf, the Bogwhan, or wine coolers?