By the time I get there I’ll probably be begging for it.
Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!
Submitted 5 months ago by Godric@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 months ago
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I had nothing to lose before I was born. There is the difference.
Geodad@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And there’s nothing that you can do to keep from losing what you have.
Acceptance is the way to a happy life.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I’m happy. I’m just pointing out that there is a difference.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Because it was terrifying to be in a state of nonexistence. Thinking about not having what i currently have or even the fact that I’m very much likely not even going to have a state of being where i can even remember the things i had done in my life is truly fucking terrifying to me.
Saarth@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I wasn’t burdened by the curse that is awareness before I was born, and hence now as a result of this awareness, I am scared.
Godric@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We are not cursed to know, we are blessed! We are a fantastic arrangement of atoms that so happen to be arranged into people instead of rocks!
We are, at the end of the day, infinitely small chunks of the Universe able to see, experince, know, and look back into ourselves!
I may be hammered, and the world is in an especially frightening place at the moment, but damn is it good to have my atoms arranged into a person instead of a tree
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I did not choose to be here and I resent that there are expectations put upon me when I wasn’t the reason I am here now.
I also resent that I was born just to die one day.
It is also fundamentally horrifying that so many people are born into painful awful experiences and then die, with that being more or less mostly all they knew while alive. And that some people live happy lives on its own doesn’t justify the horror in my eyes at all.
That said, I wish I could be drunk right now but I’m at work.
_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
wow so cool!
richardmtanguay@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Everyone should be afraid of the judgement in the Realm afterwards!!! :-(
Godric@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Which judgement? Are we reincarnated into a form based upon our virtue? Are we trying to die a glorious warrior to feast with Wotan? Does “the god” demand blood sacrifice, killing all? Do we turn the other cheek to vibe with Yaweh? Do we simply sink into the potter’s ground, destined to have our current atoms remade, even though we are a single drop of rain, or shall we remain?
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Idk if I follow the logic.
“There may be something after death.”
- “There is more than one religion people believe in so therefore no.”
zululove@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
ngl i plan to be a digital being by 2060
Godric@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Art become reality, ye are the 21st century digital boy
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid of the part before that.
Godric@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Same, let’s try and make that bit before that less shit, hey?
noxypaws@pawb.social 5 months ago
what about the cool bug fact?
fucking apostrophe abuse
Godric@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The shitpost’s will continue until morale improves’
noxypaws@pawb.social 5 months ago
look here you little 'shit…
tan00k@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You can’t “experience” nothingness. Even if you could, you can fear things you’ve experienced before…
OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The previous billions of years of void was a grandiose buildup to the world’s largest nothing-burger, followed by an eternity of void again.
diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
What a great fact, I love it.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I’m not afraid, I’m annoyed. I’ll never get to finish my unfinished books. >:(
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Or my Steam library.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I remember what it was like, that’s why I am afraid of it.
GalacticTaterTot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This strangely made me feel a better about the concept of death.
Sometimes I think about it and fall in a few seconds of existential dread. But this kinda…makes it make sense?
Godric@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It brought me some comfort too.
flango@lemmy.eco.br 5 months ago
And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don't mind Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
DarkSide
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Let me go back to my eternal slumber
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I’m not afraid of death. I’m afraid of dying
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
If I knew for a fact that I was going to die instantly, without even knowing it happened, I’d be worried about how my loved ones would feel, but okay with it as far as I’m concerned.
sausager@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Came to say the same thing. Dying sounds painful, even in most of the best case scenarios
fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Cool bug fact is
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What I really don’t understand is bringing more people into temporarily existing without the ability to get their consent and calling it a “gift” that now they get to face the lovecraftian horror of future non-existence.
Pre-birth is not like post death. The arrow of time doesn’t reverse.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I dont get it either. Guess we are wired different.
ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You know. This oddly actually makes me feel a bit better about this.
Godric@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Me too!
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
We are genetically configured to survive at all costs. That fear is simply the wiring in your head ensuring you do what you can to survive.
You can safely compartmentalize it. store it up there with your irrational fear of clowns.
Geodad@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s not true. It doesn’t explain noble sacrifices. The teacher in the US who is willing to put themselves between their students and the mass shooter is one example.
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Yeah, the teacher wasn’t afraid at all. Nope, no gin and ex-causing that teacher to be afraid. /s
hedge_lord@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My current self wants to look at more cute bees and sniff more sunflowers. It doesn’t matter if my future self wouldn’t care (on account of not existing), my current self still really wants to do more of that.
Michal@programming.dev 5 months ago
And came out screaming, so I’m on the fence on this one
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
what i’m scared of is not getting to experience things, the fact that i missed out on history isn’t much better but at least that was rather difficult to do anything about…
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Living in recent times, there’s a lot of historic events happening I’d rather not be around for. Just wait until the climate collapse stops playing around with foreshadowing and the dildo of consequences arrives
Digit@lemmy.wtf 5 months ago
About 22 years ago or so, after not taking psilocybe mushrooms for a couple years, fasting for 24 hours, I took an uncounted tens of grams of dried, fine-powdered, strong psilocybe semilanceata, hot, in just lemon juice, and chugged that pint of thick mushroom super-lemony brew down as fast as i could. It started coming on FAST and STRONG. Ran the 3 strides to the bathroom sink with need to purge, which didn’t last long nor purge much of it… clinging to the sink as I slumped down, with the trip immensity roaring at the doors bursting in at all the seams, I tried to steady myself, I meditatively focused on a drop of water, empathising with it likewise clinging to the underside of the sink. I empathised my way instantly to know where every molecule, and every atom, of the water in there, had ever been, and it was a short jump from there to realise I could do that with everything. My experience is that every atom, every subatomic particle, have omnidirectional infinite sense of the entire cosmos… and this was only in the beginning seconds of the hours long trip, the ability to see behind things, to know from every perspective, everybody, all time, all times, all dimensions, all realms, all places, all interacting potentials… I cant speak to it really, only to say I remember I did experience it. Cannot take it all back with you.
First exchange with other people after I came out of the toilet, friends had come around, one asked “how was it?”, and with it all still being fresh, the immensity of having experienced omniscience, sought to offer what I thought was the most beautiful thing of it all… I said, with all glowing reverie “I know death”. The look of horror on the poor dear’s face though. Ho ho ho.
But yeah, get that… we mere mortals, many, all around, can experience omniscience.
And many are, and ever have. Say hi.
Wav_function@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you know you know
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
KittyCat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Unless the universe is truly infinite, then from the point of view of your continuity of consciousness, you will never die, because they will always be somewhere in infinity where you’re exact current consciousness picks right up after you die without a blip.
lemmycdatass@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Your comment reminds me of a video, might have been Tyson, that said something like ‘if you look in any direction far enough, you will find another solar system with the exact same properties as ours’. That’s infinity. There are infinity possibilities. In that solar system, is there an exact copy of you, and are they reading this comment right now?
Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
I keep having this recurring dream…
I’m sitting…I don’t know…“outside” of time? Observing it all as if you would a timeline while scrolling through a video… I get to a point where the character on screen, which is also me, dies and I pause the video, slap in another stream from another reality where I don’t die and I keep going…
Your statement sounds almost identical to my dream…
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I don’t think that’s how infinity works
KittyCat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In an infinite universe every configuration of matter that can possibly exist will just due to the laws of statistics. Meaning in an infinite universe there’s are infinite identical copies of this solar system exactly as it is, isn’t, and everything in-between. Since you obviously can’t observe your life if you’re dead, in such a universe you will always experience your point of view from the position of a living copy somewhere else that was identical up until that point. Now of course its not the other you physically. But if the mind is exactly the same it is you mentally.
Its more or less the star trek transporter problem taken to a logical extreme. If you step into a star trek transpoter and are reassembled with identical memories elsewhere, are you still you? If its yes, it must also be yes for the universal thought experiment.
zexyqag@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Something about “there’s an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1, but none of them is 2” idk
daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m not
unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Amen
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
My thoughts immediately go there on abortion: before birth, I never had the consciousness to experience & want life, so I’m incapable of caring about missing out before that capacity to care could even start. If I were aborted, I wouldn’t care. So why are others caring more than I would?