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DON’T DIE WITH YOUR DEAD

DON’T DIE WITH YOUR DEAD

by | Nov 17, 2025 | Mad Musings, philosophy-religion

Source (Quora): LINK

Did you know that when you cry for your dead, you cry for you and not them?

You cry because you “lost them” because you don’t HAVE THEM by your side. You think it all ends in death. And you think they are NOT anymore.

So if your dead are gone, where are they?.

Yes they have left, or they are now in another place, Is that place better than this?.

Yes, definitely that place is better than this; so Why do you suffer for their departure?.

When you have finished accepting that they are no longer “NOT here”, but they are still in another place even better than this, for there where they are no longer sick, or suffering.

Then you’ll stop mourning them and you’ll get them back in memory so they keep accompanying you with the joy of all that you’ve lived.

If you truly loved them LOVE them AGAIN and this time with greater strength, greater purity, with greater delivery.

Today, there will be no more reproach of any kind.

Only LOVE will be the essence between you, between us, and between them.

I respect your pain and the way you express it. I know you cry and you will cry without comfort.

What are some ugly truths of life?

by | Apr 22, 2020 | philosophy-religion, Reflections

I just love this list that I lifted from Quora – written by Jasmin Mous, 

  1. Evil exists. There are people who have chosen to destroy everything and everyone that comes into their way.
  2. Empathy is NOT a motto to live by. It is a skill for you and you only. If you live by being full of empathy for everyone it becomes a blind spot for people to use against you.
  3. If you stay too long anywhere, you usually end up wasting time without realizing. Job, relationship..
  4. People don’t want to hear the truth. They want to hear what sounds “good” and “reasonable”.
  5. Education makes a nation great. College is not overrated. When it is turned into a commodity then question the system and not the college experience.
  6. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
  7. If you never go out of your comfort zones, you will stay very simple thinking you are very complex.
  8. Sometimes you do have to be the bigger one and no one will be there to applaud you for it.
  9. It takes courage not to offer confusion but solutions to this world.
  10. Contrary to popular belief vulnerability does not equal weakness. It equals strength.
  11. Manipulation is shunned yet everybody manipulates every day. Better to be aware than to ignore.
  12. Love does not hurt. Idealizing does.
  13. Nothing will get you through life like mental resilience can.
  14. Whether you believe in god, karma or pure consequences, this life will give you everything back you put in. Nothing more, nothing less.
  15. If you chase pleasure instead of pain, you will look back with regret. The easier route never leads to anything.

What successful people have in common?

by | Apr 21, 2020 | Frugal-Me, Money Matters, philosophy-religion

The below list was lifted from Quora and is authored by Adam Fayed Founder of Global Online Financial Advisory Firm.  I really like this list a lot.  I think just successful is enough though – not just ultra successful.  I am even sure what ultra successful means.  I suppose there is something to be said about degrees.

The ability to delay gratification

  • Focus
  • Determination
  • Persistence
  • They are less influenced by the majority
  • They are readers
  • They invest in themselves
  • They invest in financial projects
  • They are open-minded
  • They also take care of their health and other things which aren’t directly linked to their wealth
  • They take personal responsibility
  • They are less focused on losses, and more on gains, or a realistic view of gains/losses. Most people are more focused on avoiding loss.
  • Focus on the long-term
  • They learn from their mistakes
  • And the mistakes of others

Do not weep for your dead: how to mourn as the Stoics did

by | Aug 24, 2018 | philosophy-religion, Reflections

Imagine you are at a child’s funeral. The child is yours. The air is numb with silence. An ache so deep you can barely breathe moves through you, until it bursts and you cry out loud. Somebody passes a tissue; another rests his hand on your shoulder.

In time, your eyes run out of tears. But now there is a hole in your heart in the shape of a child, and it feels like it will never heal. Maybe it shouldn’t, you think to yourself. You lost a child. This stays with you. It’s supposed to stay with you.

Source: Do not weep for your dead: how to mourn as the Stoics did
My Comments: Interesting piece on Stoicism.  Well worth the read.

Dread accompanies me through life but it is not without consolation

by | Feb 21, 2018 | Deep Thoughts, philosophy-religion, Reflections

One morning, my father died at home. I awoke to a call for help – my name shouted once, loudly, desperately, fearfully, by my mother – ran into my parents’ bedroom, and found my father convulsing in the throes of a massive heart attack. His body bucked on a deadly trampoline, his chest heaved, spittle flecked his lips and the sides of his mouth as he desperately sought to fill his lungs with air.

Source: Dread accompanies me through life but it is not without consolation
My Comments:  A really good exploration of in the inner self.

Bad things happen for a reason, and other idiocies of theodicy

by | Feb 2, 2017 | philosophy-religion

The problem of evil is a classic dilemma in the philosophy of religion. The relative ease with which the problem can be stated belies the depth of the challenge that it presents to traditional monotheism. Roughly, it can be summarised as follows:

If God is omnipotent, then He has the power to create a world without evil.

If God is omniscient, then no moment of evil goes divinely unnoticed.

If God is omnibenevolent, then He has the desire to rid the world of evil.

Source: Aeon
My Comments: Really good insights into some of these problematic themes that religion and philosophy has grapples with (and still continues to) since man has had enough sense to contemplate his relationship with nature.