there are people who have faked their own death. to start a new life? so their family can cash in on their life insurance? there must be other reasons, too. i think a lot of people dream about it.
but what about the people who fake their own life? what's the motivation for that?
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sometimes I think people adopt the "fake it till you make it" policy with their own lives, but they never quite make it.
yeah but for me fake it til you make it is about the life you want... and about living it til it's real.
i was thinking about people who have killed their souls or dreams and are just pretending to be alive.
like people who are alive and just pretending to be dead.
That's an interesting question. Viktor Frankl (in the aftermath of his own Holocaust survival) concluded that humans are all congenitally in need of finding what he called the "logos", of finding "meaning in everything". He argues convincingly that the human brain recoils at nihilism and simply cannot accept the notion that our existence is pointless.
The Apostle Paul described "becoming alive" as death to self (Romans 6:5-9), of finding purpose in life other than serving ones own appetites. The Perfect Example of one who truly lived is, of course, the One who literally laid down His life that we might become alive.
yeah, the religious myths are interesting in how they attempt to answer a human emotional need. i am fairly comfortable in the fact that life doesn't have a meaning. it just is. better make the most of it because there isn't anything else.
"jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine." not very original but a good point nonetheless.
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