The point is that without the looming threat of a negative (meaning death) the positive (meaning life) becomes meaningless. It is an old argument there are positive and negative aspects, you simply can’t appreciate a bi-polar condition without any knowledge of the opposite polarity, since each defines the other. You cannot experience yin without a yang, or white without black, good without bad.
Spiritual columnist Mukul Sharma has a very interesting take on this Рhe states that even religion is also cannily clever when they guarantee immortality and a heavenly paradise in the afterlife. The complete assertion of suffering may sound great on scriptural paper, but compared to what? Without the comparison, bliss become blas̩, and eventually boring.
Like the man who attained Satori and had nothing more to look forward to. Religion tries to scare people by depicting hell as a place of excruciating physical torment – something that can hardly be perceived as boring – even through the opposite of bliss should only be an extreme agony of the mind.
The opposite of horrific bodily pain is ecstatic bodily bliss. Then paradise may sound like a heavenly place for delightful sex.That would be stultifying as sex is taboo for religion. Science is also trying to achieve immortality by arresting aging for immortality which too would be equally boring
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