🧵 Would never existing feel the same as being dead?
Anonymous at Thu, 25 Jul 2024 06:43:51 UTC No. 16295719
Can't wrap my head around this crap.
In this universe, I could have not existed, like the offspring of, say, Nero and Marilyn Monroe (because they lived in different time periods, and so, could not have possibly mated, etcetc).
Well, I exist now, and am going to die one day. That day, I stop existing, right? So, when I stop existing, do I enter the same pure lack of consciousness like the person who never was, or do I get "frozen" in the last moment my consciousness had something left of it?
Like some sort of instant of deep dreamless sleep, after all my thoughts, feelings, memories are gone and I'm just a husk and there's next to nothing in my mind in that last instant?
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Anonymous at Thu, 25 Jul 2024 06:59:19 UTC No. 16295729
>>16295719
you sure do seem to like talking about yourself on social media
Anonymous at Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:02:52 UTC No. 16295732
>>16295729
This is the only thread I've made about this topic.
Anonymous at Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:34:41 UTC No. 16295763
>>16295719
You can go through life believing there's some form of "you" after death, and it's probably beneficial to an individual to have this mindset; hence there's a lot of resistance towards the contrary. Self preservation and ego have helped us evolutionarily, so you'll see a million different copes of an afterlife out there. Consciousness is a dated term people shove their own mystical woo on, but it's born from the illusion our nervous system constructs for us to interpret and navigate the world so we can survive and reproduce. The simplest answer is once that goes, your experience is over.
Anonymous at Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:53:02 UTC No. 16295777
>>16295732
that bot has been spamming that for years
Anonymous at Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:01:19 UTC No. 16295786
>>16295719
Tried to talk philologically, and miserably failed to do so
Anonymous at Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:41:54 UTC No. 16295908
>>16295719
What are you, 7 y.o.?
Anonymous at Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:54:31 UTC No. 16296051
>>16295763
If the “you” doesn’t exist, then it can’t cease to exist upon death. It’s all just atoms, so what exactly is dying at birth? Atoms change every second, you die every second. There is no (you). You will be born again as some other form of conscious life forever and ever. We are all the same.
Anonymous at Thu, 25 Jul 2024 19:17:36 UTC No. 16296341
>>16295719
You just die man, you don't exist anymore. I guess you're just scared like everyone else. You simply just don't exist like you were never around caveman times, it's not that hard to comprehend once you get older lol.
Anonymous at Fri, 26 Jul 2024 03:00:02 UTC No. 16296852
>>16295719
No. Both would be undescribeable because 1) dead bodies cannot feel 2) never existing cannot feel. So neither can feel and we cant know if that the same feeling because they cant feel
Anonymous at Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:14:58 UTC No. 16297132
>>16296852
So can we actually experience death? I know we die, but I honestly don't think we "experience" anything but only existing and dreams. Have you ever experienced anything different than that?
Anonymous at Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:04:49 UTC No. 16297158
>>16295719
The reality is "you"(the awareness that you are alive, not your memories or physical atoms) are just a subsection of the consciousness of the universe. "You" are everyone and everyone is "you". So technically "you" are gay, actually the ultimate gay, because "you" are all gay people. Also technically "I"(who is also your dad) have fucked your mom.