furthermore

This relates to the Film Recommendation posted yesterday.  It seems to exemplify a portion of the theme.

The film explored, among other things, our intimidation by anything that's different from our way of thinking and therefore threatening to our existence.

It made all the sense in the world to me.

It explains hatred. 

Anything that puts us farther away from death.  But we all have to survive and maybe if we realized that we really are all the same, we could HELP each other survive, and maybe in so doing reach our highest self.

We try doing things that keep us from death or even challenge death.  Sky-dive, perform, put other people down so that we might rise.

But death is never more than a few inches away.

The meaning of life isn't earthly.  You might succeed in leaving a name behind, whether famous or infamous, but even that will fade over time.

Great monuments have been built to the fear of death.  The Pyramids, for example.  Even these will crumble.

Forget it.  We're all going to die, one way or another, sooner or later, so we might as well try to live a life where someone will miss us when we are gone.  That's as close to immortal as we can get.

 

"In interactions with others, instead of trying to be right, why not be kind." -- Dr. Wayne Dyer