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by anonymouse71 6y ago
My philosophy professor would say exactly that, and then counter it with the fact that without desire you can’t make the most of anything because you can’t do anything that you’ll find meaningful. To desire is a very human thing to do and d
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
It is oddly comforting to see it written out like this. Probably because this is mostly mirroring my thought process. I also think about the people who didn’t (won’t have? will not?) make it past whatever medical breakthrough allows us to r
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
Thank you. Yeah HN didn’t let me put everything I wrote in the post so I see a lot of people are seeing only the third that made it into the post and not the main parts. Definitely anxiety. Definitely need to address that regardless. Unlike
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
Thanks. I sampled a good number of religions and spirituality. I know for a fact I can train my brain to believe that I have an invisible soul that will live on. Or only if I die in battle. Or only if I wear a cross that has been blessed by
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
I did this a while ago and came out on the other side feeling like I fully explored this field as an option. I can’t quote you the Bible, but I understand the principle of the thing. Same with other spirituality and different philosophies.
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
But I am aware of their existence, no? If not, would we be discussing them?
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
They aren’t in the same category. You have a choice of which wedding to go to. It may be annoying but your ability to choose something isn’t taken away, you are forced to make a choice. If your life stretched infinitely mathematically, you
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
Thanks. Clearly this is a thing that has motivated at least some subset of our species to try to figure it out. Part of it is that I feel like there is no purpose. Each of us is an accident of one of a few hundred billion sperm produce on a
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
Thank you. This is super interesting. And hopeful.
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
I don’t remember it but I am aware of it. After death there is no awareness.
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
You describe perfectly the experience I had at one point many years ago. I don’t want to experience every cubic meter of the universe. And I lived my life for at least the past decade with the idea that I will chart my own path of what I wa
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
I have thought about whether this is my body telling me something. That’s why, as I put in my large comment, I have an appointment with my primary care next week. I have cut out news about two months ago, but I get triggered by a lot of dif
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
I don’t really know what to say except this is what I already know and it’s not helping. I know I’m not in a good place Brian chemistry-wise. But even when I feel happy and put together and logical, I don’t want to die on general principle.
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
The problem is that this is the exact perspective I don’t want. I missed out on half the eternity and really don’t want to miss out on the other half.
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
My problem is that I can do this but I know all it will do is make me temporarily forget, not fix the fundamental problem I feel I am facing. I am afraid of self deception I guess. Just now I wrote up all my thoughts on this here: https:&#
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
I am well aware that with the state of the world and the winter’s short days are clearly affecting my reactions to these thoughts. I know that and am taking steps to try to fix my brain chemistry. I have an appointment with my primary care
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Ask HN: How do you deal with your mortality?
26 points by anonymouse71 6y ago|65 comments
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by anonymouse71 6y ago
The part about always dying... I have struggled with this concept since I was a child. If anyone has any words of advice on dealing with that that aren’t “just accept it” or religious in nature, that would be helpful.