Naturalismo

What makes us fear death? What do we fear upon the void that will come to us In the eve of our death? As the poet Lucretius said, He who fears the void that will come upon his death Must think of the billions of years of nothingness that passed before his birth. No paradise, no purgatory, no hell, No twelve virgins await you in the afterlife. Even afterlife itself will not be bestowed unto you So mind nothing but your life here on earth. What makes us fear the impending end of the world? Death and destruction too play essential roles in nature Like birth, evolution, and cycles. We owe our lives to the void And we shall return to the void. As the philosopher Heraclitus had said, Everything flows; Nothing stays. Energy is spontaneous. It keeps moving and doesn’t stay in one place. Put a cup of hot coffee on a table inside a room And later you’ll see it as cold as its surroundings. This is a law of nature called Law of Entropy. It is a tendency of heat and energy in nature to reach equilibrium And become equal in quantity in all points in the universe. This is the fate of the universe in a distant future. There will be equal quantities of heat in every corner in the universe. Nature had already written the fate of the universe. The coming future will be cold and barren of any life. Scientists once thought that the life of the universe Is a cycle of birth, destruction, and rebirth. There will be a Big Bang and the universe will be born and will expand. Then the expansion would slow down, the universe will shrink in size, and everything will be one once again. The Big Bang will come once again, the universe will expand, shrink, then the Bang again. This theory is what we called Big Crunch or Dakilang Paglutong. But according to the observations of astronomers, the expansion was continuously speeding up. This will speed up more and more as time go by to the point that everything will be literally ripped off. The electrons, protons, and neutrons in atoms will be disjoined. This theory is called Big Rip or Dakilang Pagpunit. Maybe we’re just too crazy about the idea of forever, Especially when it comes to love. Love too is an energy that flows and doesn’t stay. Make the most of every moment you have with someone you love. Give him or her all that you can give so wouldn’t regret in the end For people too weren’t permanent. Even roses turn old Even milk goes stale For everything has an end. Even the heat goes away And the pleasant smell goes foul Even love comes to an end. The world flows And it doesn’t stop. The only constant thing is change. Your skin will soon turn saggy And your body will rot Even the world comes to an end. Joy will turn into melancholy And energy will be equal In every corner of the universe. You can longer fix A paper you already shredded. The heat goes cold, Things go away And will never come back again. This is a law of nature. Love too will go away, doesn’t it?