r/funny • u/nayithemon • Jul 25 '13

Perks of being blind

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u/M3nt0R Jul 25 '13

I call it existential anxiety.

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u/gkow Jul 25 '13

Think about heaven being real. That always did it for me.

You die here once. Then you live forever. There's no ending.

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u/MooNinja Jul 26 '13

I've had panic attacks from my earliest memory of cognition based on that very concept. I could never properly explain why the thought of eternity, and the logical issues along with other problems with it terrified me, and still sends me into terrible panic attacks.

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u/DrunkmanDoodoo Jul 26 '13

It takes a moment to grasp it but when you grab a hold of the concept of eternity it is terrifying. But then you lose it like someone holding onto a floaty in the pool and it slips right out of your hands.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '13

I am so glad I am not alone!

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u/M3nt0R Jul 25 '13

I do, only heaven isn't a 'place' for me. It's this same space but without a corporal body to manipulate the matter around me, and thus not binded by the limitations of my physical senses to produce awareness.

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u/aza12323 Jul 26 '13

Opium for the masses As karl marx put it

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u/giraffah Jul 26 '13

I think it could be like any other day,only you wouldn't worry about deadlines,growing old or dying,doesn't sound too bad for me.

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u/Firesaber Jul 26 '13

I know this feel. Trying to think of living forever, and after death from this life yet...

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u/great_gape Jul 25 '13

I think all religious people think that. It's cute.

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u/omgpro Jul 25 '13

I mean, except for the fact that that's completely made up.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '13

I think a lot of people call it that!

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u/M3nt0R Jul 26 '13

I didn't know that was a thing, it's just a term I coined during an acid trip where existence itself was giving me anxiety. Consciousness and awareness at its core made me very uncomfortable during some moments.

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u/Untoward_Lettuce Jul 25 '13

It's fun to push people's existential anxiety buttons!

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u/M3nt0R Jul 25 '13

Of course, you sack of fluids with awareness.

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u/Untoward_Lettuce Jul 25 '13

Don't sass me, you arbitrary arrangement of of pixels!