Something to think about if you don't like enforced solitude

[conuly]

Hope
By Langston Hughes

Sometimes when I’m lonely,
Don’t know why,
Keep thinkin’ I won’t be lonely
By and by.

Comments

[nodrog]

True enough, whether you believe in an Afterlife or not.

[conuly]

I think it's probable that Langston Hughes was an atheist, so he probably didn't.

https://www.chino.k12.ca.us/cms/lib8/CA01902308/Centricity/Domain/2273/Salvation.Annotated.pdf

Re: The Undiscovered Country

[nodrog]

Well, I have to confess that it sounds like Santa Claus and his workshop up at the North Pole - a fairy tale for children.  Reality is larger and more complex and colder than such nursery tales, as adulthood - and astronomy - discovers.

If an Afterlife did exist, and our behavior had consequences therein, we would know it as fact.  The existence of poisonous plants does not need to be taken on faith, nor do the consequences of falling from a height.  Even dangers of which we are insensible, such as atomic radiation, are demonstrable, provable - real.

The very fact that depictions of Heavenland® vary so widely across time and cultures argues that it’s literally make-believe, intended to instill virtues and control, yet withal as unreal as Star Wars.


(… Unless it's not:  “Oops!” )

Re: The Undiscovered Country

[nodrog]

A further discussion on that point:

https://nodrog.dreamwidth.org/2660513.html#comments