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I actually found death a lot easier to deal with after I stopped being religious. The idea of existing for eternity is more terrifying to me than anything else
by snegu 6y ago
I actually found death a lot easier to deal with after I stopped being religious. The idea of existing for eternity is more terrifying to me than anything else I can imagine. I can deal with things ending.
- katzgrau 6y agoExisting as a human forever would suck, but I'm sure an eternal being could find other ways to keep himself occupied.
- ianai 6y agoThis. I hope being human is merely something we’re doing to experience human existence as one of many options.
- ReactiveJelly 6y agoIt would be weird after a trillion years when your human life was just a tiny sliver of your whole life. I can't handle that thought any more or less than the thought that I'll die - As a cartoon dog said, I just distract myself with pointless stuff, it seems to work.
- katzgrau 6y agoNot to get too esoteric, but at some point a trillion years is meaningless. Nothing really matters or doesn't matter - it's how you want to look at it. And distracting yourself with pointless stuff is totally valid. In fact, it's probably what we're all doing in one way or the other.
- pmarreck 6y ago> The idea of existing for eternity is more terrifying to me than anything else I can imagine. But the presumption here is that the same “time passage” we’re familiar with here, exists there, and pretty much 100% of NDE accounts (depending on whether you believe thousands of witnesses of it constitute credible eyewitness testimony) state that there’s “no time” there or that “time is weird”. Here’s a simple question: Do you think there are immutable aspects to your person? Aspects that have remained unchanged your whole life thus far? Because those are apparently the things that continue on to the next adventure, as it were. And yet, this is supposedly a learning experience of some sort...
- srtjstjsj 6y agoTimelessness in Near Dearh Experience has more to do with the experience of dreams and anesthesia than with whatever the afterlife may be.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoI can't find it now but there's an interesting dialogue by Asimov, a dialogue between God and the brilliant scientist God chose to grant infinite afterlife to. I won't spoil what they discussed.
- notsureaboutpg 6y agoThis doesn't make any sense to me, but I guess it just goes to show the vast diversity of human thought and experience.