This is such a braindead take.
Elaborate, enlighten the masses!
The thing that currently calls itself me wants to see the third Spiderverse movie before it ceases to exist. If the future “me” doesn’t want to see the third Spiderverse movie then “I” have died and it’s basically the same thing. Don’t leave me on a cliffhanger bro.
Instant surprise switch to nonexistence after my kids are grown up and have their own lifes would be totally fine.
Preferrably in synchronization with the life partner.
It’s not the being dead that’s the problem, it’s all the nasty stuff connected to the transition process.
void is not empty but boring. won’t know you are there 🐝
After you die, someone else will be born. It’s literally reincarnation without some kind of persistent self or magical scorecard.
You’ve already experienced
Have I though? I don’t think my ability to “experience” existed prior to my birth.
can’t experience without being alive. 🧬
You’ve experienced falling asleep. Same difference.
Oh? Based on what evidence?
You haven’t fallen asleep?
When you sleep there is a time where you are not conscious, that is what a “nothing” afterlife would be like, which we’ve all experienced.
that is what a “nothing” afterlife would be like
Based on…?
“Experienced” is a poor term to use when describing nonexistence. You weren’t there, there was no mind, there was no you, thusly there is no memory and even if there were, it would be of nothing.
The notion is more that because you did not exist, you had no mind, no consciousness and thusly there was simply nothing. Not you, not an experience for you to absorb.
it’s a weird concept because there is no way to really describe it that relates to anything we know. We know ONLY of existing. We can’t know of not existing because not existing precludes the ability to be cognizant of it.
It’s one of those things you just have to accept. When we die, we simply cease to exist (unless you believe in an afterlife). The closest thing that I’ve experienced to being aware of non-existence is being put under general anthesia. You are lying there with doctors and nurses peering down at you over their masks, wearing their funny little hats, they tell you to count backward, by the time you get to two and a half, you’re gone. When you do eventually come back around, you just have a big empty spot that you time traveled through. No dreams, no thoughts, no awareness, just nothing.
The only difference with death is the whole not coming back around bit. Of course, since you will not exist, you will not be concerned with that part because you will not be.
chill, isn’t this like a shit post sub
Why u think I’m not shitposting?
big words and thoughts for my stupid little brain to comprehend.
And do you think that you will somehow still be conscious after you die? Your ability to experience will not exist when you die either. I thought that was common sense, but apparently not.
Right, which is exactly what makes the middle period of existence, while brief, extremely appealing.
One thing that has helped me get out of this nihilistic trap sounds a but mystical but bear with me: The self and your perception of it is a construct of your brain. In reality all conscious beings are the same. You are me and I am you, we experience as one, just with different experiences. Future generations will experience the world for us just as we are experiencing it now for the past.
You now understand EXACTLY what death will be. Your ability to “experience” will no longer exist.
Right, so “you’ve experienced nothingness void before” is bullshit
I don’t remember what being 6 months old was like either, but I’m told I screamed and shit myself the entire time, so maybe the experience actually wasn’t great.
Because existence outside the void is glorious and beautiful and painful and strange; the Void is just empty nothingness, forever, and should not be cherished.
Humans ruined that too. They made life a punishment.
I dont even think my life is very good and I still would rather experience it than not
My motorcycle begs to differ you miserable nihilist.
Looks out at my 14 acre farmstead Not all of us.
I’m afraid of dying while people are still using common phrases incorrectly.
It definitely begs the question of what’s in the afterlife.
embrace linguistic descriptivism
Intellectually I do, but the devil is into details!
Read that as ‘white people’
Read that as a command to read it as ‘white people’.
The bug fact’s what?? Don’t leave us hanging!
You didn’t experience either tho
I can handle being dead, and I won’t even complain about it, but dying sounds like it sucks.
I’ve done it once, it wasn’t that bad
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More like living in the ICU for six months and having a very bad time
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I’ve attempted it many times (at least 10). And I’m pretty sure I died at least once too.
Anyway, hope you’re doing better now <3
Yeah, it’s only **the story of **[insert name here] that ends. What you essentially are has never started or ended.
Meh. Dying in your sleep, surrounded by loved ones or doing radical stuff sounds fine to me.
Just save me from Alzheimer/Dementia. That way to go sucks in a major way. I want to die as Me, not as some husk that wears my face.
Assuming you’re lucky enough to go off in your sleep.
When I die I hope I go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in fear and agony like his passengers.
Lovely subversion of expectations
We have already experienced the endless void, why do you think we are so afraid of it…
Last time I didn’t exist, I existed. I’m terrified it might happen again.
Hm. Hot take!
