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[Anonymous No.6108892]

>tfw every time you think about your impossibly short life and the utter non existence after death you get scared

[Anonymous No.6108893]

>>6108892
/lit/ - literature

[Anonymous No.6108897]

>>6108892
That's why i want to get into gerontology
>DFW hope to stop ageing, and by that death

[Anonymous No.6108914]

>you will never read every book

[Anonymous No.6108920]

>Tfw every time you think about your impossibly short life and the utter non existence after death you are reminded that every second is precious and that you should get off your ass and write that fucking book already

[Anonymous No.6108922]

That scares people?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6108930]

>>6108922
I guess some people are just like rabbits.

[Anonymous No.6108932]

>tfw my life feels too long and the agony of living is only abated by the knowledge that it will eventually end

[Anonymous No.6108950]

>>6108892
>not being a mystic

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6108966]

>>6108950
EH-HEH EHHH

Spooks

[Anonymous No.6109089]

>>>/r9k/

[Anonymous No.6109305]

>tfw every time you think about your impossibly short life and the utter non existence after death you realise the only thing you want is for it to end

[Anonymous No.6109318]

>>6108892
iktf anon. It's fucking terrifying, but I guess that's just life. I find immeasurable joy in merely perceiving the world, and I don't want that to go away.

[Anonymous No.6109330]

Iktf

I try not to think of it, I've had moments in which this thought kept me awake at night, shivering.

[Anonymous No.6109384]

>>6108892
>>6108893
>>6108897
>>6108914
>>6108920
>>6108950
>>6108932
>>6109305


>tfw people are stupid enough to believe that non-existence in the future will somehow be permanent, unlike the non-existence prior to their birth...

>tfw people are so stupid they don't even understand that their non-existent states are as temporary as their existent states

>tfw people aren't aware of the future lives they will live as violent aliens, starving african babies, murder victims, giant galactic beings that live for eons in other dimensions...tapeworms in the anuses of gay men, etc..

>tfw only a select few will ever wake up from this bizarre nightmare only to realize they are all the same being who doesn't even exist

[Anonymous No.6109410]

>>6109384

yeah man, totally! What if, like, we're all one consciousness? Far out, right?

fuck off with this new age hippie bullshit

[Anonymous No.6109422]

>>6109410

the last bit about consciousness is irrelevant hippie stuff, the terrifying part was the beginning which is absolutely true.

[Anonymous No.6109429]

>>6108892
>utter non existence after death

ya, like the utter non-existence before birth. How did that work out for us?

I'm so glad that non-existence is a guaranteed safe haven, can't wait to return to it! :^)

This time it'll last forever, for sure! :^) :^)

If only life was that fair and just and peaceful...

[Anonymous No.6109499]

>>6108892
It's a good feel for me. Life is so exhausting. I'm only a quarter through my life supposedly but it feels good knowing that I'll eventually be able to sleep forever.

[Anonymous No.6109512]

>>6108892
Embrace it and become a Diogenes.

[Anonymous No.6109514]

>>6108920
I get the exact opposite feeling. A short life followed by eternal oblivion ruins my motivation.

[Anonymous No.6109532]

>utter non existence after death you get scared
Why would you ever get scared about an empirically unverified gossip?

Are you 14?

[Anonymous No.6110372]

>>6109532
What else would there be? The only reason you can perceive is your consciousness. Your consciousness is created from your brain. Once your brain stops functioning, so does your consciousness, and also you.

[Anonymous No.6110392]

>>6108897
But David Foster Wallace killed himself?

[Anonymous No.6110394]

>>6108892
How does this bother you, exactly? This only upset me early in my teens.

[Anonymous No.6110403]

>>6110372
Not if its re-instantiated in some other substrate at some point following. The horror of knowing you can never die.

[Anonymous No.6110404]

>Be me
>Mom gets home from her date and comes to check in on me
>Tell her I need her to make me some chicken tendies right now
>She says it's late and she's tired and the date didn't really go so well
>I punch a hole in my bedroom wall and start screaming
>MOTHER YOU KNOW I HAVE OVER 50 GOOD BOY POINTS SAVED UP FROM WHEN I CLEANED OUT MY PISS JARS YOU OWE ME. MAKE THE TENDIES NOW.
>She stats crying
>I ask her what she's waiting for
>She wipes her eyes and sulks off into the kitchen to turn on the oven
>Tendies were delicious

[Anonymous No.6110409]

>>6108892
>Not embracing non existence
>Implying I should want to be stuck with all you fags in some sort of after life

[Anonymous No.6110417]

>>6110404
>piss jars

i don't get this, there's a homeless bum that lives outside my apartment that saves pee in used water bottles, sometimes he has as many as three in his coat pockets at any time, then sometimes he just opens one up and splashes it on the sidewalk. last time i snowed there was this giant patch of yellow snow and i was like what kind of man or beast could piss that fucking much? then i realized the hobo probably dumped out two or three of piss bottles, i don't get why people do this

[Anonymous No.6110436]

>>6110417
if you`re smart you sell your piss to people on parole who need clean piss.

[Anonymous No.6110439]

>>6110404

She probably did an extra good job because she was sorry for mouthing off to you.

[Anonymous No.6110441]

>>6110436
or at a highly competitive tennis academy

[Anonymous No.6110453]

>>6109514
but you can like, live eternally through your book, man

#art

[Anonymous No.6110455]

>>6110404
>MOTHER YOU KNOW I HAVE OVER 50 GOOD BOY POINTS
>needing good boy points to get your mother to make you tendies
>not having a mother who understands her natural role as tendies maker and accepts it enthusiastically

Fucking normie. I bet you're monolingual too.

[Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo No.6110473]

>>6108892
Megakek, pleb; you're not scared, no one feels fear towards logical phenomena that they understand, you just still feel hope that it might not be the case, hence your fear and trembling.

You wouldn't fear at the fact that if you eat too much, you're gonna throw up, wouldn't you? --- because you know it for sure. If you dropped all that petty hope of yours, you wouldn't feel no fear at all. Bitch ass niqqa.

[Anonymous No.6110494]

>>6108892
lol you're probably just clinging to shit like possibility of fame, possibility of fortune, and the possibility you will never get any. nigga just think about all the shit you wont be able to do its literally impossible to do everything

stop holding onto stuff just as finite as you, physically and in your head, and thinking that it's infinite or more important than you or will lead to some weirdass idea of happiness.

plus, if you really believe in nonexistence, then you believe you won't feel anything at all afterwards. Which means you won't feel despair or be able to fear death anymore

your also probably retarded or a pussy or both

[Anonymous No.6110501]

Can we agree that fear of death is the most plebeian thing around?

[Anonymous No.6110504]

>>6110501
Yes.

[Anonymous No.6110505]

>>6110501
We can.

[Anonymous No.6110509]

>>6108892
>tfw when you know shits going on after you die and that is what make you shitscared

[Anonymous No.6110518]

>>6110509
That painting is intense.

[Anonymous No.6110520]

>>6110518
>>>/r/eddit

[Anonymous No.6110523]

>>6110509
It doesn't have to be that way.

[Anonymous No.6110528]

>>6110523
Mammonist Idolater, please.

[Anonymous No.6110530]

>>6110528
An accuser eh?

[Anonymous No.6110533]

>tfw you realize you aren't actually alive and there is no distinction between the inorganic and organic

[Anonymous No.6110536]

>>6110523
Infinity torments me

Is the feeling of not being able to get used to whatever comes next that makes my anxiety get anxieties

[Anonymous No.6110542]

What's there to be afraid of? Death is just the cessation of life. We don't experience anything of it... makes no sense man, seriously.

I can understand being afraid of getting sick and old, but being afraid of dying is a sign that someone has totally misunderstood what death is. It's easy for our mind to let the idea spiral out of control into some kind of horrible event we're going to endure, but that's just the mind being silly. Remind it that death is not something we experience, and that we have no reason to fear what we won't experience.

[Anonymous No.6110545]

>>6110536
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
- Matthew 11:28

[Anonymous No.6110547]

You are too attached to what you have now. Your body, your sense of personality, the illusion that you are separate from all else, the illusion that this process that is yourself is actually all there is. Death is a transformation, a radical transformation. In life you can see how changing from a city to another can be scary, but nevertheless you understand you'll still be the same person. In death, what you lose is this person and only that. Your death won't mean non-existence, the universe continues afterwards just like it continued after so many deaths. You'll get back to this ocean and lose your form, but your consciousness dissolves itself just like your body dissolves itself. The only reason to be afraid of death is this absolute clinging to who you are, your name, your accumulated knowledge, your memory. Those are all too small and unimportant for you to worry so much about.

[Anonymous No.6110551]

>>6110545
is god some form of bed?

[Anonymous No.6110555]

>>6110551
God is a person.

[Anonymous No.6110557]

>>6110536
Infinity can't torment you. You don't even know what infinity is.

[Anonymous No.6110564]

>>6110372
>The only reason you can perceive is your consciousness.
>Your consciousness is created from your brain.
>Once your brain stops functioning, so does your consciousness, and also you.

Invalid argument with all premises being false. Premise one is false, because without any given sense organ you wouldn't perceive anything at all. It also begs the question by taking consciousness to exist without any concrete evidence (say, supporting premise); not even a definition is given. Premise two is, well, to borrow from the previous elaboration, patent question-begging. Your hypothesis is also incompatible with various philosophies of mind (panpsychism, substance and property dualism, to name a few). The conclusion, is, of course, absurd, but not just for the above-stated reasons; but also, in addition, for muddling up the already-ill-formed argument by committing the mereological fallacy (you are clearly confused as to what counts, and what the term 'you' can sensibly be referring to).

In any case, thanks for admitting your age.

[Anonymous No.6110566]

>>6110536
You can't prepare yourself for the next moment, because you don't know what will be brought to you. You can prepare yourself to handle situations that you were not prepared to handle though. If you do first and think later, if you learn to enjoy this mystery, you learn how to accept death.

[Anonymous No.6110592]

>>6110547
>>6110566

Kinda feel better now, anons
Are there any books related to this?

[Anonymous No.6110594]

>>6110372
Where does people get the idea that consciousness is in the brain? What the fuck. Your brain is a little machine that handles electricity and makes certain organs spill chemicals, certain muscles to twitch and so on. It has nothing to do with consciousness, or, at least, just as much as your heart, your eyes, your feet...

It's not as if the energy your brain handles vanishes from the universe once you die, it is merely dispersed. In the same way that you see no distinction between your brain and your hand when you move it (it is all "I"), and between your hand and your car when you are in it and you feel yourself as the car. Nothing dissapears at your death, what happends is that these delimitations you like to imagine make no sense anymore, your body feeds nature, the air in your lungs return to the atmosphere one last time, your fluids dry to the skies, your electricity moves some place else and that's it.

[Anonymous No.6110600]

>>6110592
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEX5mBqa554

[Anonymous No.6110605]

>>6108892
Don't worry, OP: After you die you will wake up, unknowingly living your life over again.

[Anonymous No.6110611]

>>6110542

WHY IS NOBODY RESPONDING TO THIS? YOU GUYS ARE DELUSIONAL.

[Anonymous No.6110694]

>>6110494
this post sucks

[Anonymous No.6110747]

>>6108892
>implying I'm going to die
Prove I can die. You can't.

[Anonymous No.6110759]

>>6108892
just get over it. you will eventually. i found that understanding, that if i am cremated, i will then be spread over earth and born again into multiple plants or other organisms, calms me down.

[Anonymous No.6110806]

Why the fuck would you be scared? An infinite amount of time before you were alive not being alive didn't bother you so why would being dead bother you in even the slightest sense of the word? It makes no sense to me.

[Anonymous No.6110817]

[Anonymous No.6110847]

>>6110817

[Anonymous No.6110860]

>>6110847
is this the version for the mentally retarded?

[Anonymous No.6110908]

>>6109410
>new age
It's been new age since the 60's, man.

[Anonymous No.6110918]

>>6110860
no, that would be the original, which suggests you become an ubermench to solve your problems.

[Anonymous No.6110922]

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

Vladimir Nabokov

he chose to spend this brief crack of light becoming a god

[Anonymous No.6110959]

>>6110564
Best post thus far.

[Anonymous No.6110994]

>>6110564
And the conclusion that you draw from this is?

[Anonymous No.6111031]

>>6110994
That you're an idiot. Now go do your English homework so you can get into Community College.

[Anonymous No.6111052]

>>6111031
>Makes an elaborate objection that is worthy of a high-quality intellectual conversation.
>It was to prove that you are a retarded and moronic child ;^)
Why must 4channers be like this?

[Anonymous No.6111134]

>>6110564
>>6110959

[Anonymous No.6111170]

>>6111031
Jeez man, I'm not even that guy.

Cool your tits brosephine.

[Anonymous No.6111940]

>>6110564
Idiot.

[Anonymous No.6112457]

>>6108892
>muh death
>muh shortness of life
What are you, 12? That's some basic shit.

[Anonymous No.6112487]

>>6110847
>tfw I actually attempted the original flowchart trying to find some kind of meaning and ended up like that chart

Fuck.

[Anonymous No.6112493]

>>6108914
Good. Imagine all the shitty manuscripts tucked away under some 50 year old spinster's futon

[Anonymous No.6112500]

>>6108892
I just don't want to die in my sleep.
I wanna be there for my death.

[Anonymous No.6112508]

>Tfw ambivalent towards everything, even death, because I smoke so much weed

Yeah, uh, Idk if this is healthy or not.

[Anonymous No.6112645]

To the people treating fear of death as absurd: you are literally autistic, and what are you doing on a literature board?