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84. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life Is Meaningless and Amazing

People I (Mostly) Admire

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You Have No Meaning

i was haunted by a pervasive fear of death. The way that i disabused myself of this idea is an undergraduate course from e o wilson, the biologist at harvard for you. By understanding i was meaningless, i was able to shed this fear of death and go on with my life. I know history. There is no way that there will still be a state of israel and a jewish people. On an even simpler level, you're dead. How do you know the people are singing songs in your honor? Once you're dead? It's not like you're lying in the ground and you can hear the songs coming from above.

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