
Digital Salon with John Vervaeke: The Meaning Crisis
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The Absurdity of Death
Death is a prospectival mystery to you, in contrast to how easy it is to state as a propositional fact that prospectival knowing is really crucial to you. You can't imagine what it's like to be here now dead. And so one of the things death does is it shows us the inadequacy of the propositional knowing for dealing with deep issues of meaning. That's how it is powerful and importSo i just wanted to finish that argument, because we've lost a lot of how to think about death other than as a fact. Yes, it's sort of a there are. It's truth on in experience.
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