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Originally Posted by 70Chip

It depends on whether you have failed to absorb the obvious fact that the present reality we inhabit and everything in it is losing momentum and will one day collapse on itself. Only someone who has drunk a lot of kool-aid about the perfectability of man and other kindergarten fairy tales would be shocked to find out that planet Earth will not go on forever as it is right now.

Knowing something and realizing the implication of it are two different things. Everyone knows their parents are going to die but not everyone realize it until they're actually dead. From secular-humanist-none-magical-place-believer what is frightening is not that the earth is going to die someday but that mankind is done for once it does and there will be no recovering from it. I guess what I'm really trying to get at is that the mortality of the entire human race frightens me more than my own mortality.