People should live with some kind of meaning and purpose and not think that because death is inevitable that there is no point to living. However, Thomas still never offers any reasons to live life beyond the concept of simply existing. Compelling people to have purpose and meaning seems itself purposeless and inconclusive in the face of a certain death. Consequently, his message can be considered inconclusive, unless perhaps he is pointing beyond this reality to the idea that there must be more to life than what one makes of it and the end merely death. Perhaps there is a reality beyond this time and space that offers hope for those with life ahead and for those facing death. This would make sense of death not being a low, but the height of one step in reality, leading to another magnitude of
People should live with some kind of meaning and purpose and not think that because death is inevitable that there is no point to living. However, Thomas still never offers any reasons to live life beyond the concept of simply existing. Compelling people to have purpose and meaning seems itself purposeless and inconclusive in the face of a certain death. Consequently, his message can be considered inconclusive, unless perhaps he is pointing beyond this reality to the idea that there must be more to life than what one makes of it and the end merely death. Perhaps there is a reality beyond this time and space that offers hope for those with life ahead and for those facing death. This would make sense of death not being a low, but the height of one step in reality, leading to another magnitude of