Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

Death only has a resemblance of badness, it is not bad in itself.

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

We have believed many tales about death. There are descriptions of a prison below the earth and regions of endless night.

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

We ought to care much less about death than we do.

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

With practice, one can overcome this feeling.

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

People believe that death will lead us into darkness. AND2

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

We have a fear of darkness. AND2

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

We have a fear of the unknown. AND1

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

We don't know where we are headed after death. AND1

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

Death seems alien.

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

There is in us an innate need to survive.

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

Death is not indifferent in the same way as it is indifferent whether you have an odd or an even number of hairs on your head. Death seems bad.

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

Every object takes on a splendor not its own when virtue is added to it. Like a piece of iron is not in itself either hot or cold: thrust into the furnace, it glows red-hot; plunged into water, it cools down. So is with death.

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

The same death was glorious in the case of Cato, yet shameful in the case of Decimus Brutus.

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

It is virtue or vice that meet and handle them that makes them glorious or shameful.

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

We do not praise indifferents (death, poverty, exile), but we praise people that are not bowed down by these and take them on with bravery.

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

No indifferent is glorious in itself.

Nothing is glorious that does not involve indifferents

Indifferents are: illness, pain, poverty, exile, death.

The more you understand evolution, the more you move towards atheism

There are hundreds of religions and every religious person is loyal to just one of these.

Growth under extractive institutions is unsustainable

The five-year plans were frequently revised and rewritten or simply ignored.

Growth under extractive institutions is unsustainable

In the end, probably six million people died of famine, while hundreds of thousands of others were murdered or banished to Siberia during the forcible collectivization.