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Originally Posted by tame_deuces
Perhaps there is some truth in this in some perspectives, but death is viewed very differently across cultures (and individuals). A good way to approach that is to ask "what is more important than life" and then try and ask this question from different cultural / ethnic / religious / philosophical paradigms.
What happens after death is viewed differently indeed.
What's not different is the conscious awareness of the inevitability of one's own death: shared by all humans.
What specific beliefs one holds about what happens post-death are less important I believe, although they would determine the type of institutions that would spring-up from time to time.
What is of crucial importance to explaining the emergence of all institutions (and all bodies of thought - except for nihilism maybe) I believe is simply the awareness of the inevitability of one's own death. The awareness of the futility of one's fleeting subjective experience and the meaninglessness of it all. The awareness that drives us to manufacture importance, to create meaning; to make life worth living.
Last edited by VeeDDzz`; 12-21-2015 at 11:02 PM.