The paradox of life is that we fear death, yet we’re more haunted by the question of why we exist at all.
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The fear of death is the silent architect of everything else on that list. It’s the quiet architect behind every human impulse... I mean, without mortality breathing down our necks, meaning wouldn’t matter, love wouldn’t burn so fiercely, and knowledge wouldn’t feel urgent. We chase purpose because the clock is ticking.
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The fear of death is what made EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING. Chemistry was formed by people trying to find the elixir of life, which extends into everything
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I would like to add being spiritually aware of our lives and others around us. Makes it challenging and engaging socially.
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I find myself circling around the idea of meaning as if it were a quiet star whose light I can sense but never quite touch. Perhaps meaning isn’t discovered, but distilled drawn slowly from the way we notice, the way we endure, the way we love. It shifts like water, taking the shape of whatever vessel we offer it. Maybe the search itself is the meaning the silent dialogue between what is and what we hope it could be.”
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The pursuit of knowledge and want for meaning. The other things are done by non humans, nothing specifically defines humans but from what we have observed the want for knowledge that is unrelated to survival is something rarely seen in other animals. And the want for meaning is something we can’t determine if another being really feels it. The fear of death sparked the want for knowledge but now it is acting independent from simply surviving
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I think you find the ability to love, along the way on your search for meaning. Your knowledge builds as you learn and grow on your search for meaning shrinking the fear of death until you’re one of the lucky few who does not fear it.
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Many living creatures can learn, love, and fear death, but only "humans" search for the meaning behind why it all happens.
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The search for meaning is unique to humans in my humble opinion. Everything else is shared with other species, but the persistent desire to know one's life's purpose is a trait of man and only man. The funny thing is, many humans give up on the main human quest line in exchange for convenience and certainty. And then on their deathbeds, they question whether they lived a good life and whether they would do it all again. No risk, no reward.
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The fear of death, or at least the knowledge of death, forces us to search for knowledge and meaning and to love those that fit our criteria.
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The search for meaning ..... Only to get to know that to love , is the meaning of life .
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Animals can love and fear death. They are curious to different depths and degrees but comprehending meaning and purpose may be out of their league. It would be so cool to understand how they think on a deeper level.
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Just because searching for meaning is unique to humans does not make it definitive, IT IS THE FEAR OF DEATH that defines being human and it is the sole reason we search for meaning at all.
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How do people not understand their purpose. We are here because God wanted friends 😊
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I think you could plausibly make an argument that non-human animals demonstrate a fear of death, as well as the capacity to love so I'd say it has to be one of other two. Meaning is really a second order type of concept, one that I'm not convinced animals are capable of. I'd go with that.
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None of the above. Emotional expression is what defines our experience..
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Which of these do you think defines being human the most?
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