Instant-contentment perspectives
I've been thinking about instant-contentment perspectives lately. I was first introduced to these by my dad. He's 67 years old, and he tells me this kind of story:
If you were 87 years old, and an angel offered to return you back to 67 in exchange for 90% of your wealth, wouldn't you do it? I try to imagine that I've made that deal, that I'm 87 returning back to 67, and appreciating life anew.I came up with my own, sci-fi/philosophy style version of this. It goes like this:
Imagine you've been dead for 1,000 years and an angel returned you back to this life right at this moment. And this angel stitched in your old memories together to this present moment such that you feel like you've lived continuously up to this point. There's no way to know the difference between that series of events vs. the one we usually believe is happening now.
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