If we were immortal, then life would be meaningless, because nothing would be of consequence. Certainly one way of taking the edge off the prospect of our inevitable demise is to ponder how much more horrendous it would be if… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
“Although we typically take our cultural worldview for granted, it is actually a fragile human construction that people spend great energy creating, maintaining, and… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
“We can reflect on the fact that each of us is, in Otto Rank’s lovely words, a “temporal representative” — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality. Either literally,… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
“Take all the cultural trappings away and we are all just generic creatures barraged by a continuous stream of sensations, emotions, and events, buffeted… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
If we were immortal, then life would be meaningless, because nothing would be of consequence. Certainly one way of taking the edge off the… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
