My worst fear is death being a constant feeling of nothingness. Couldn't imagine that for all of eternity.
You wouldn't be feeling it though. So...that's better? I dunno.
My worst fear is death being a constant feeling of nothingness. Couldn't imagine that for all of eternity.
When death occurs, you are no longer able to perceive time; just how you did not feel 13 billions years pass before your birth, you will not feel the billions of years to follow.
Knowing this, you will in effect, experience the end of time, instantaneously upon your total death.
I believe that our conscious minds are bound to this time by the order of the universe. Assuming the universe is cyclical, or reaches some kind of end, reason would lead us to believe that the universe would begin again, an infinite number of times, until you are inevitably birthed again, in the same time, bound to the same life, to be repeated for all eternity.
Whatcha think about that??
When death occurs, you are no longer able to perceive time; just how you did not feel 13 billions years pass before your birth, you will not feel the billions of years to follow.
Knowing this, you will in effect, experience the end of time, instantaneously upon your total death.
I believe that our conscious minds are bound to this time by the order of the universe. Assuming the universe is cyclical, or reaches some kind of end, reason would lead us to believe that the universe would begin again, an infinite number of times, until you are inevitably birthed again, in the same time, bound to the same life, to be repeated for all eternity.
Whatcha think about that??
I think death is like how it was before you were born...just nothing.
Same. Same. It's entirely impossible to fathom and absolutely terrifying.Death being "eternal nothingness" is probably the single scariest concept imaginable to me. I can't fathom it, I get the idea behind "it's like before I was born" but before I was born I was eventually born you know. I just can't come to grips with it on a mental level.
I seriously hope some day I have a revelation that will make me suddenly not so scared of dying, because it's something we all have to do no matter what so I really hope my intense fear of it at least simmers a little bit.
honestly, not to sound like a dork, the chances of us uploading our consciousness to a server is more likely than an afterlife.
This analogy is interesting because a lot of traditions would claim that the fire existed as a potentiality before it was actualized or ignited (a potential that is perhaps inherent in everything as possible fuel that fire can sustain itself on), and with the consumption of the fuel the fire reverts back from an actuality to being a mere potency again.
Buddhist philosophy actually uses this analogy to demonstrate its denial of both eternalism or annihilationism. What happens to the fire that has burnt out? We don't really know, but we can perhaps claim it neither definitively dies, nor persists eternally, because it reduces itself back into a common base potentiality that inheres in broader or universal processes. Thanissaro wrote a really interesting essay on this topic called 'Mind like fire unbound' fwiw.
No. I firmly believe there is an afterlife and that it probably feels more real than this temporary one.
My default and logical position is that I was born once from nothing, therefore if it happened once then why should it never happen again? Why would it only be once?
Now, I'm not saying that I'll necessarily be born again on Earth, or within a short time frame after the end of my current life, or even within the same universe, but somehow it is my natural intuition that it will happen, and I don't really understand why people default to the "nothingness forever" idea.
I also don't remember being 6 months old crawling around, or even 3 years old for that matter. This argument is weak imo and means nothing.
That's what you believe. I see it as hopeful, because there's a chance for something better if this isn't all they have left.So a person who barely has any recollection of who they were dies and then lives another life in that state? or is it a utopia where your consciousness reverts back to when you were healthy? Life and consciousness are so temporary that it feels insulting to everyone who suffers these horrific brain conditions that its all temporary when in reality this is what they have left.
That's what you believe. I see it as hopeful, because there's a chance for something better if this isn't all they have left.