/lit/ - Literature

>>22196372
some interesting ideas

>>22196372
>le everybody is afraid of death

Bravo

i liked it

>>22196372
Jewish schizo ramblings. Early life.

Most healthy and happy people aren't actually afraid of death. It's just a fact of life, like your looks, your bank account, or the size of your cock. In all lasting societies it is incorporated into life through ritual and recollection. It's only in post-Christian ones it's suddenly a crisis, since Christianity was a masochistic death cult, and the people who took over were Fordist Utilitarian Last Men

>>22196454
shalom

>>22196454
th
so why were Roman and Greek pagans fascinated by the Christian habit of rejoicing and celebrating when one of their number died?

>>22196372
>The ideal human form is a woman with a penis
I'm being dead serious, he makes this assertion in that book

>>22196372
A fascinating book, but outdated in certain sections - like the one pertaining to homosexuality, mental illness, etc., which is to be expected since he was a Freudian. But if your primary reason for reading the book is to better understand our fear of death and its psychological mechanisms, you will get a lot out of it.

>>22198264
can you briefly summarise what the section on homosexuality consists of for being out of date?

>>22198324
In short, its heavy usage of Freudian psychology. The Denial of Death was written in '73, take into account what the view on homosexuals was back then and you'll see what I mean.

>>22197149
Overcoming all your squalor in life by imagining it's all gonna solve itself if you just die with a prayer on your lips is the definition of a death cult. You're not living, you're not trying to improve your situation, or understand the actual conditions leading to them, you're jacking off at the thought of the great coom in the sky

>>22198324
The existential terror turn degenerates towards adopting the obscene perversities so they could stand out from rest of population and cope from death anxiety by saying they're "different".

He was totally right. You're talking with a homo who is saying that it is "outdated".

>>22198678
Agree, how is this outdated?

>>22196372
Outdated assumptions of what death is treated as fact. The problem is that we now _KNOW_ that death is not the oblivion that atheists and materialists smugly think they are smart for realizing, and brave for facing. NDErs say that we are eternal and will go to heaven unconditionally when we die, and as one NDE researcher said that he does not know anyone who has read the literature on NDEs who has not been convinced by it, and the book in pic related is known to convince even hardened skeptics that there is an afterlife.

Still, atheism and materialism is more evolved and honest than religion, but these days you have to be ignorant of the literature on NDEs to seriously think that death implies nothingness.

And NDEs are more real than this world, in every way. For example, they are more consistent experiences, illustrated well by this quote:

>"For me, life is sort of like the haunted house. When you come in, you know it's just an experience. It's small, it's just one night, right? So it's just this one life. You're eternal, you have billions of lives, so knowing that you're going to come in just for one to have an experience, though it may be judged as tough, or difficult, or scary, you actually chose it because you knew it was just going to be an experience, you know it's no big deal. You understand on the other side that this part, life, is actually the dream, and you just wake up after. It's no different than one dream you had last night, out of a lifetime of dreams. This life that you're having right now is just one, it's just a blip."

So just like life is more consistent than our dreams (dreams last a few moments, life has been the same for decades), so too is the NDE reality more consistent than life (life has been the same for decades, the NDE reality has been the same for forever, for way more than trillions of years). Here this point is elaborated more on:

https://youtu.be/U00ibBGZp7o

And it is instantly evident to NDErs that heaven is real too, even atheists:

>"It's real to us when we're in it, but once I was there in heaven I realized that's more real, that felt more real, and it made much more sense to me than anything here. This is kind of nonsensical at times. In heaven, it's so clear, so real, so rational, so logical, but yet emotional and loving at the same time. Immediately I knew that was real and this was not. Immediately."

From https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mysteries-consciousness/202204/does-afterlife-obviously-exist

So heaven is undeniably real.

>>22198616
>what are good works
protip calvanism isnt real christianity it's heretical offshoot