/lit/ - Literature

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I'm pretty heavy on the shoegaze: for other asian stuff check out any of My Dead Girlfriend's stuff, "Like Our Life" by Kinoko Teikoku, and I found an interesting self-titled EP by kugatsuhascome with a first song that gives me a deep feeling I don't quite understand.

When The Sun Hits by Slowdive is my favorite shoegaze song. That sublime, spacey feeling that gets down into your bones.

Don't forget classic rock. Jimi Hendrix's cover of "All Along The Watchtower" is a fucking pinnacle.

Not to even mention Time by Pink Floyd.

So, this post chain is getting long enough. I didn't intend to write this much shit, but to be honest I'm fucking smacked on stimulant drugs right now--it makes it easier to write. I hope it also conveys to you the complexity of your fear and the topic you're trying to discuss: you can't really get truly deep discussion on an imageboard, because to untangle the shit you're dealing with it takes a several hour conversation with a lot of nuance to even make a dent.

But I hope what I'm trying to get through here is at least somewhat intelligible. Nobody has definite answers for you, it is unlikely that anybody will be able to take away your fear of death and your existential terror. It's part of being alive, and we live in an age of profound and near-total uncertainty that calls into question the most foundational parts of our existence. And if somebody isn't distracted by the rat race of self-obsession in our modern society, they are typically without solution or insight and are just as profoundly terrified of these questions as you are. You don't have many worthwhile friends in this battle.

And you will die. More than anything, as biological entities, we fear death and the cessation of our consciousness. Our greatest fear will come true, and as I said earlier, you will die knowing far less than when you arrived, and that whatever you gain, you cannot take it with you.

But despite (or because of?) all this, and in some way that I perceive as deeper than just blind faith, I guess I am a profoundly religious man. I have no faith in an afterlife (though I believe there are some plausible arguments), I believe that meaning is ultimately a futile concept, and I believe that nihilism is undefeatable.
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