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Goodbye Kalyves

ingelsaugusti 25, 2023Uncategorized

So, one week of an pure bliss of an vacation in Kalyves, Crete, Greece that’s been wonderful. Our time has been spent 80% on sun beds on the beach in the hard-to-find shade but temperatures has been set at to a steady +30°C everyday but the Mediterranean cooling us down a bit Kalyves was very…Read more

For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else. But we know too much to content ourselves with surviving, reproducing, dying—and nothing else. We know we are alive and know we will die. We also know we will suffer during our lives before suffering—slowly or quickly—as we draw near to death. This is the knowledge we “enjoy” as the most intelligent organisms to gush from the womb of nature. And being so, we feel shortchanged if there is nothing else for us than to survive, reproduce, and die. We want there to be more to it than that, or to think there is. This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are— hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.