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Grief gets an expiration date, just like us

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461 points LaurenSerino | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 14:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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catigula ◴[18 Sep 25 16:58 UTC] No.45292054[source]▶
>There’s no modern cultural framework for dealing with death

Correct, secularism can't deal with death, it doesn't work.

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weregiraffe ◴[19 Sep 25 04:52 UTC] No.45298072[source]▶
Sure, only an imaginary friend can deal with death.

/s

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catigula ◴[19 Sep 25 13:17 UTC] No.45301357[source]▶
It's is immensely epistemically arrogant to so confidently opine on this topic when every single day you experience consciousness, which is impossible to explain at all using Physics and likely simply impossible to ever explain within that framework (Edward Witten, the greatest living Physicist, shares this belief).
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1. weregiraffe ◴[20 Sep 25 11:27 UTC] No.45312366[source]▶
>It's is immensely epistemically arrogant to so confidently opine on this topic when every single day you experience consciousness, which is impossible to explain at all using Physics and likely simply impossible to ever explain within that framework (Edward Witten, the greatest living Physicist, shares this belief).

Look, you asked for it by setting up secularism as the problem. The opposite of secularism is commonly understood to be religion, and religion is self-delusion. The fact that you can't explain consciousness via a materialistic framework, doesn't mean you have to invent an imaginary friend to explain it. It's like saying that since you can't fly an airplane to the Moon, you should take a train (with no wheels).