[MD] The MOQ and Death

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Steve]
However, even though you are so utterly cosmically insignificant, you are also
completely unique.

[Arlo]
How do you know? There have been, and very well may, billions and billions more
people before and after you... how do you know you are "completely unique"? 

[Steve]
You have felt such experiences transform your world in profound ways. You have
experienced love so all-encompassing that the only way to describe it in such a
way as to give it justice is to talk about being literally IN love.

[Arlo]
What has always amazed me is the arrogance that we think what WE feel is
somehow the first time a human has ever felt love, loss, pain, fear...

The things you describe, rather than evidence for eternal isolation and
separation, point instead towards a commonality of experience, a shared
condition with every other being in our species that has lived or will live...

When you look to the stars, in love or in grief, you ask the same questions
humans have been asking, in every occurrence of our existence, since we entered
the stage...

Ten thousand years ago, a father, or a mother, stared at those same stars and
felt the same love we feel for our children... Ten thousand years ago someone
looked up to those night stars and vowed their eternal love for someone...

Years ago, in a different place, I had the fortune of spending a night watching
the constellation Scorpio cross the night sky... In thousands of years of
history, I am no different than those who came before me, as I held my child
and tried to explain the grandeur, she ran off and chased shadows and other
childhood fun-things, and I laughed as I was only, perhaps, the latest voice in
a story eternally retold... 

That right there, a hundred, a thousand, more, years past a father watched his
child do the same thing... looked up at Scorpio and asked the same questions,
loved his child the same way, feared death, loved, mourned, celebrated... Our
love and our pain and our questions are all things experienced a thousand fold
by humans deep into prehistory...