God made the human species. He made us as the only species with an innate awareness of self. We are the only species in existence that can ponder its own existence. And are the only species that can ponder, or even simply be aware, of the fact that we will one day die. Yet death does not consume most of us.
Despite this unique awareness, most of us manage to not think about death much. We go on and we live our lives without thinking much about it. Well, we do think about it sometimes. I think about it sometimes. But, for the most part, we go on and live our lives as though we are going to live forever. Most of us live our lives as though we will not eventually die. Death does not become us.
This is true despite the fact that we go to funerals. We see people die. Yet death is something that occurs to other people. It does not occur to us.
And that right there is all the proof of creation you ever need. Those of us who believe in Heaven don't worry about death. We don't worry about it because death is just the beginning.
So, part of this self awareness is a knowledge that we will one day die. Yet it does not consume most of us. This is how we live our lives. We don't think about death. We think about living. We live our lives as best we can so we can get to Heaven.
We have this virus going around. We have car accidents. We have strange accidents. We have abortion. We have cancer deaths. We have all sorts of things we can die from. We do not know what we will die from. We do not know where we will die. We do not know when. But we do know we will one day die. But, again, thinking about it does not consume us.
We have people with severe end stage cancer or COPD or heart failure. And yet I have seen people with these diseases with the best attitudes. There are times the person dying in a bed is the happiest person in the room. I have seen this true with adults who are dying. I have seen this to be true of kids when they know they are dying.
So, we cannot stay cowered in our homes forever. We must get out and live our lives. And, this is why I discussed what i just did, the few people who are afraid of death, I think, are the ones who do not want mitigation to end. They want to hide until a vaccine is found. And it doesn't matter if the economy is destroyed in the process or not. They are afraid of death. They are afraid of dying. This life, to them, is all they have.
And I cannot speak for these people. If anything, I feel sorry for them. They tell you you can't eat certain foods or you will die. You have to drive no fun cars or the planet will die. You can't have caffeine or you can't have beer for this reason or that reason. You can't ride in a car without wearing a seatbelt. You can't ride in the back of a truck even though you are being safe.
These people don't think you are smart either. They have to tell you how to be safe. They have to make laws pretty much forcing you to quit not wearing your seatbelts. They may not be able to force you, bu they nudge you in that direction. They don't want you to smoke, so they raise taxes on cigarettes so high you can't afford them.
And you have a right to be safe. But you also have a right to be stupid. If you want to have some fun sometimes in lieu of safety, oh you can't do that. That's not good for you. You might increase your risk for dying. So we are, for your own good, going to do everything in our power to make you safe. We are going to do it for your own good. And all you have to do for this safety is give just a little itty bit of your freedom.
Most of us don't get consumed by death. Until something like COVID-19 happens. And politicians tell us we need to hide. So we give up our freedom. We exchange our freedom for safety.
We do it out of fear.
But then, as we learn how to be safe on our own, we yearn to get our freedom back.
And then when those in power get used to, and fall in love with, that power, they don't want to give it back.
And then, those who yearn to get their freedoms back, are called the bad guys.
Go think about that.
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