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What is there to fear about oblivion?
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March 6th, 2011
More than one scholar has concluded that people created the notion of the “afterlife” in order to come to grips with the unpleasant, scary, and somewhat inconcievable notion of the absolutely eternal nothingness of the oblivion that follows death and the disappearance of our awareness of existence.
But let’s face it.
Every person ever born spent eons in oblivion right up to the moment of their birth.
It is not as if any of us are strangers to the condition. If I live to be 100, it will be nothing compared to the probably infinite time stretch that preceded me.
So when we die, it is sort of like going back to the familiar old neighborhood, in a manner of speaking.
So why the fear associated with the oblivion of death?
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