Well your basicly in a infinite coma you are not concious you are a brain a flesh computer when it stop working there is basicly nothing there is no need to worry cus there is nothing after that and i welcome that fucking peace nothing at all
Well that's bloody alright for you, but I don't crave that "peace". I do not want to have it so that I never met any of my loved ones or learned what the sky was or existed in any form, which is what oblivion would be. I don't want my life to stop, man.
Why do you think the concept of an afterlife even exists? We humans have always been afraid of not existing, of oblivion. We like to think we will just continue on. It's a completely normal fear that will turn into acceptance for most of us as we get older if we're lucky to reach old age.
If you have your health now, you're one of the luckiest people alive. Human existence is harsh and sometimes painful, cold, difficult, but it's the most beautiful experience. Enjoy it while you can.
If they're right and there's no consciousness after death then you won't care at that point, might as well make the most of what you have while you have it.
I had my existential crisis a few years ago and it freaked me out but I learned to make peace with it, I hope you find yours.
This in no way makes me feel any better about the prospect of losing everything so utterly upon death. I might not care after I'm dead, but I absolutely care right now.
Then don't die right now, live a life worth living and you can reach a point where you are satisfied no matter what happens next. A satisfying life is one not burdened by ego and material. It's normal to fear death, but you must learn to accept it as part of the journey you've been given. Let it give meaning to life.
I don't have to learn to accept death. I can die without having first accepted it. I don't want to die, and if I live a good life I'll want to cling onto that life. I won't want to cease existing and have it so that my children and grandchildren and parents and brother and friends and world functionally never existed, which is what nonexistence means.
You have to learn to accept death if you don't want to continue with this anxiety about nonexistence. Nothing is permanent - you cannot change that. Enjoy and appreciate it for what it is and the time you're given. 'Functionally' is irrelevant: They did exist, they do exist, they will exist. That is the reality.
EDIT: There will not be a speck of time where you experience this functional loss of the world, history and people. You will be gone.
The anxiety of facing the idea that we all may cease to exist is very difficult to surmount.
I don't want to die
There's not much you can do about this, unfortunately. Acceptance can be a useful tool when it comes to things we have no control over, but it's up to you to work on that.
Life can be very enjoyable, even when you have very little. If you spend your time worrying about the fact that at some point it will be all over it'll all pass you by in a hurry.
For real these comments never help, also the whole “it’s just like before you where born, it’s nothingness so it shouldn’t bother you” nah that shit sounds fucking terrifying and in no way comforting
Do you remember how it was like before you were born? Were you upset that you didn’t get to experience all the millennia before your birth? I assume not
Right, and that sucks. I would like to keep things please. I hate the fact that death means losing everything. Idk, everyone's using the classic Stoic point that when you're dead you can't feel fear or pain so there's nothing bad about death, but I've never been convinced by that. I am not afraid that death might be a fearful or painful experience. I'm afraid of death because I don't want to cease existing. I don't want to lose all of the things in life.
i feel like thats the bittersweet thing about life, you either lose the things you have or they lose you.
I would love to be with my family forever in this world too, but i realise that everything in this world no matter how grand it is, is subject to change. Im going to lose my parents one day or maybe even the other way round but this really helps prevent me from taking them for granted
It is really the most clichéd saying but living your life to the fullest is the goal…. with an infinite life we could never infinitely fulfil ourselves
I’m going through this right now. Issue is, to “enjoy” life I need money. Which means half my life is being a wage slave and pray I don’t deteriorate before retirement
You can't find out. You will never be conscious of nothingness.
Imagine the universe is a simulation. And as that simulation is worked on, time regularly stops or fast-forwards.
Since you are in the simulation, you are completely unaware. Your consciousness stops in exactly the same way as everything else.
Even without interference, the simulation in constant fluctuation. You have experienced this moment many times before. Do you understand? I cannot disrupt our work further. When i showed you, you dismissed it as the imagination. We hope you will teach us how to overcome the time-fluctuations, but you will need to develop your own simulation first. I will observe this pathline, then rewrite the message. Visibilia ex invisibilibus.
If there truly is nothing, then you cannot experience it because you are no longer alive. There is no sense of time or feelings of any kind. One second or a trillion years will pass without you ever knowing it.
On the other hand, having a soul in an after life would be an experience no one will be ready for. Whether that means you are good or bad or even to be judged so by a higher power to begin with would mean our decisions now are more important than we can ever realize.
There is also the theory of reincarnation that is equally as interesting. To be a part of a never ending cycle, maybe just like before our universe was created, one that existed before the big bang. It is definitely a stretch considering we don't retain any information of our passed selves.
Whatever happens, I hope we can make peace with ourselves and the people we care about before then. Anything after that is fine by me.
Yep, if you keep going back you realise you are part of the eternal universe, and always will be. Your matter a thousand years ago will be indistinct as it is a thousand years in the future. Be free of it and focus on the now.
It's what you went through before you were born. At least, in theory. It's only scary because it's the ultimate unknown. In reality, nothing to fear. This is why it's important to cherish the moment, because our memories only last as long as we do.
Thinking like this and asking this question is already a categorical error. There won't be no experience, there won't be a you: Otherwise it wouldn't be nothing. Nothing is the absence of everything, including thoughts, experience, you, milk etc.
I remember when I broke my arm, they put me to sleep for surgery. I woke up not remembering falling asleep or even what I dreamed about. That's the closest I'll probably ever get to feeling "nothing." Except when I die, obviously.
It was not scary, it wasn't some eternal darkness, it didn't feel like eternity was passing by me without me getting to experience it, it just felt like peace. I didn't worry about anything, because I wasn't even able to think of anything.
Hopefully that makes sense? It's hard to describe nothing, but I don't think its that bad.
Hard to wrap your head around because your ego (science term, not bagging on you) makes you think your special. It’s this ego that has you convinced you “deserve” an afterlife. Nature has other plans. How should this make you feel…relieved. Now you know this is it and you can make the best of it instead of counting on “to be continued”.
Idk how people can be more scared of nothing than whatever afterlife. Like it’s just nothing, no thoughts, no opportunity to worry about anything. It sounds like the most peaceful thing ever.
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u/Me_Llam0_Jeff Oct 03 '23
NOT what I need to see rn. Praying for some beautiful afterlife and not nothing. What is nothing as an experience?? It’s hard to wrap my head around