Denial of Death

[Smilla]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death

This explains a lot of our behaviors.

 

[Buddyluv19]

I saw this yesterday and it gave me pause. This book, 'The Denial of Death', was assigned reading for a class I took in college. It was a philosophy class I took as an elective. I remember the title more than the contents.

As it regards my behaviors, I would have to read further into the book - but the wiki summary high-lights some interesting points.

It's a complicated subject, but I'm glad someone called it to my attention.

 

[Buddyluv19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death

This explains a lot of our behaviors.

I went back and re-read the 'synopsis' in Wikipedia (I couldn't find the book in my library - haha - this is funny since I have ALL of the heavy textbooks from my major field!)

In a nutshell, it appears I should have paid more attention to this Book as it seems my 'immortality experiment' has been a dismal failure. According to Becker, this result was to be expected. At least this is some consolation.

 

[Smilla]

I went back and re-read the 'synopsis' in Wikipedia (I couldn't find the book in my library - haha - this is funny since I have ALL of the heavy textbooks from my major field!)

In a nutshell, it appears I should have paid more attention to this Book as it seems my 'immortality experiment' has been a dismal failure. According to Becker, this result was to be expected. At least this is some consolation.

We were reading that at exactly the same time—spooky action at a distance! Also interesting that Becker is the lone missing book in your arsenal...

Becker's work is oddly comforting, I agree.

 

[Temporarilyabsurd]

I read this book a few years ago , after my fathers death , and ensuing compassless turmoil in my life .

I nick named him " Becker the Bulldozer " , as the ideas were scorching my earth of all the preconceptions and half baked ideologies I have clung to .

After flailing around for a while , I am looking at consciousness itself as some how a thing / experience in itself that transcends so much bullshit.

Just 'being' is brainwashingly under rated . ( Objective materialism co-opted by industrialization has de-natured humans in civilization )

Terrence MacKenna saying 'Culture is not your friend ' ( for me , a Becker idea )really switched me on to inner world / potentially super natural , transcendent possibilities , outside the prescribed religious traditions .

I don't really hanker after psychedelics or meeting the mechanical elves / wasps / mantis's ... I'm just beginning to see what being might be like with less neurosis .

The Awakened Ape by Jevan Pradas has some collated insights about our troubled existence in civilization compared to our tribal beginnings .

 

[LoNatural]

Yeah, that's why people reproduce, because It's the closest thing we know to immortality

 

[Pulpit2018]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death

This explains a lot of our behaviors.

I will check it out,always interested in these type of books.