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You're not dreaming big enough. "Accept death, it's beautiful" is cope. It's not beautiful. It's suboptimal horror. I find it offensive that so many "universe
by echelon 1y ago
You're not dreaming big enough.
"Accept death, it's beautiful" is cope. It's not beautiful. It's suboptimal horror.
I find it offensive that so many "universe experiencing itself" entities willingly accept a return to dust. Our sun dies, and with it everything on this planet will become metal inclusions in a decaying solar body. You know what doesn't matter in light of that? All other perspectives. Every other conception of death and meaning tends to zero.
I accept death personally. It's 99.9999manynines likely. But I would love to spend my limited energy trying to conquer it or to push forward the societal envelope. Something from earth should conquer the vastness of spacetime and physics.
It's not like how any of us spends our time matters anyway. We're all already dead, geologically timespan speaking.
And who knows. Maybe the gods of the future will reverse simulate the light cone down to your femtosecond neurotransmitter flux. Maybe that's you right now. And maybe they'll pull you forward into an eternity of bliss instead of a read-only memory or sadistic eternal hell simulation. But probably none of those things given how more likely we are to accept doom.
- saulpw 1y agoConsider that some people have gotten past it, and that it's not a "cope". Enlightenment is real even if it horrifies you because you aren't there yet.
- kiba 1y agoSure if it helps you sleep at night, but it also leads to a lot of unhealthy behaviors such as drinking, smoking, and not taking care of yourself.
- tick_tock_tick 1y agoEnlightenment is cope. It's literally coping so hard you enjoy the cope itself.
- username135 1y agoI've visited that space before. Its greatest tragedy isn't the ideas it births, but how seductive the nihilism becomes. You recognize its smallness once you've outgrown it.
- saulpw 1y agoIf it's nihilism, it's not enlightenment! There is still/more meaning in impermanence.
- hiAndrewQuinn 1y ago>Something from earth should conquer the vastness of spacetime and physics. I hear this claim often, but I never hear any particular reason for why it's so important compared to e.g. letting Alpha Centauri colonize where the lightcones overlap.
- weregiraffe 1y agoThere no one on Alpha Centauri
- seletskiy 1y agoYou are not alone in this. Though I would say it is absolute horror, not just suboptimal one. Practically speaking, I have no idea what I _personally_ can do except of accepting the inevitable.