Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts

Friday, February 10, 2017

Scared of eternal life

First time I've ever heard of this.(video at the link)

The Crippling Fear of Everlasting Life
While many dream of an afterlife, people with apeirophobia are terrified of eternal existence. Where does this fear come from? “I suspect that, in apeirophobia, one comes to the realization that after death you will live forever—if you believe in the afterlife—and in simulating that experience in your mind, one realizes that there is no way to project ahead to forever,” says Martin Wiener, a neuroscience professor at George Mason University. “That experience is, inherently, anxiety-provoking.” In this animation that explores apeirophobia, people who struggle to grasp infinity confess their uncertainty about what happens after death.~snip~
I like to believe that we go on after we die although I'd really like to have an idea of what it would be like. I mean what would your everyday activities look like?
I was raised Christian and Jesus promised a place for us in his fathers house and I like the idea that we'll be united with loved ones in the afterlife.
But how will we occupy our time in eternity.
Will we have a job or hobbies? Is there any kind of job or hobby you'd be happy to do for eternity?

That kind of uncertainty makes me a little apprehensive but it would and is silly to be fearful of something that you can't do anything about.

But then again that's what phobias are really about, being extremely or irrationally fearful.
Not the politically correct crap that the media or grievance groups try to pass off to us.

Monday, January 16, 2017

Eugene Cernan Dead at 82

John Glenn and now this, I guess it's about that time that we start losing our modern explorers. The men who went to the ultimate "no man has gone before".
I honestly believe that the next time humans walk on another planetary body no on will be alive from the first.

Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on the moon, dead at 82

Cernan, an early NASA astronaut who was the last man to set foot on the moon, died Monday, NASA announced in a tweet. He was 82.
Cernan was the commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972 – the last lunar mission and one of the final Apollo flights. When Cernan stepped out from lunar module “Challenger” he became the 11th person to walk on the moon. His lunar module pilot, Jack Schmitt, was the 12th. But as commander, Cernan was the last to re-enter the module, making him the last person to walk on the lunar surface.~snip~

Friday, January 13, 2017

Exorcist Author Dies

Saw the movie, I never read the book.
RIP

William Peter Blatty dead aged 89
William Peter Blatty’s death was confirmed on social media by the film’s director William Friedkin this afternoon.
He is survived by his wife, Julie Alicia Witbrodt.
The writer won the Oscar in 1973 for his screenplay, based on his own book that was published in 1971 which told the story of a child possessed by a demon.~snip~