By the time I get there I'll probably be begging for it.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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Because I forgot what it was like
Can't forget something that doesn't exist.
It did but you wasn’t aware of it at the time
I have never experienced unending nothingness, only noted the nothingness after it was over
That's a good point, though I think it's also fair to say that you won't experience unending nothingness after death from that perspective, either. I can see how coming to accept that the world existed before our experience began could help one confront the world will continue to exist after our experience has ended.
I'm looking forward to the nothingness, the first 14billion years was nice enough. It's the time between everyday life and nothingness that worries me.
Just had a friend die of a heart attack while working in construction with his friends. Didn't make it to the hospital.
That's how I want to go. Just times up one day.
So sorry for your loss. You're right - your friend is "fine" now. It's the people we leave behind that can have a hard time with it.
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Idk, sounds kinda scary. Idk what it was like before, because I lacked consciousness to experience it. And the idea that it all ends, back to nothingness forever. We live a few years. Pretty much nothing, if we consider the forever before, and the forever after our existence.
It's something I recall fearing as a kid, due to the scary unknown. Glad to have enjoyed a decade of bliss. Too bad the fear has come back to haunt me. It's not constant, though. Sometimes it comes, outta nowhere. Real strong. Not fun. But I don't live day to day in fear.
The thing is, once youre dead, there won't be consciousness, you will not have any perception of a void, you won't know anything because you will not be.
Marc Maron put it into good perspective. He was hiking in the hills and passed out. He noted that he could very well have been dead, and that would have been that. He wasnt scared because he wasnt conscious.
You can't be afraid when you dont exist and you will not be aware of anything.
I don't believe in God nor am I religious, but consciousness just feels so fucking weird man. Everything in the world can be explained through science and physics, cause and effect, hell even our brains and actions are just a chain of atoms interacting. But consciousness just feels so out of place. Why am I? Why am I even aware of my own existence? Why has a set of atoms resulted in my non-material consciousness? It feels so out of place. Why isn't it just a bunch of atoms bumping into eachother, why am I capable of feeling and thinking?
You are the construct of a million cells, an evolutionary "trick" that allows all the pieces to act as one. Your task is to percieve your environment and survive in it.
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I think about this more than anything in those quiet "run the brain's existential dread garbage collection routine" moments.
Self aware consciousness is just so wild. Like you say, how does it even exist? But it's also so common on our little planet here (even if we only count the humans) that it is as commonplace as it is spectacular.
It feels like this magical "extra" thing, but at the same time the evidence kinda suggests it's just something that naturally happens once you get complex life.
You might find some answers in Julian Jaynes The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
Short version: consciousness is kind of new. We aren't really good at it.
Also, Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright is very good. Less about Buddhism more about how we think and why it works.
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Because there is no coming back.
Cannot step in the same river twice. Nor with the same feet.
We only get one ride in this rollercoaster and half of us want to make the ride living hell for the rest of us.
Half? Try an alarmingly small number and they are damn good at it.
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apparently I literally tried to strangle myself on my umbilical cord in the womb but my take on that was that I knew what was coming.
Bought the ticket. Take the ride. Came here with purpose, despite the trepidation.
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The After is not what we fear. It is the pain of the transition
Having grown up with the concept of an eternal hell hammered into my head since day 1, I spent many years fearing the after much more than the transition.
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Afraid? Hardly. More like
Nothingless void is as believable as afterlife. From scientific point of view neither make sense, it's like we're giving ourseleves some metaphysical distinctiveness from the rest of universe but are merely physical bodies inside of it according to our scientific knowledge. And according to that we precisely know what's after death: we rot in grave, and that's it. But that answer is not satisfying for us, because what we call our consciousness will stop existing at some point, and we try to find logical state of us, when there is no longer us. I don't really think it's possible to describe how's that like at all.
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The key is to accept that the end of consciousness is a feature of existence, and not a bug.
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We live and we die, but we don't start or stop existing. Everything that is us is still here. And in time, what was us becomes something new and different.
The miracle of life is a rare and magical opportunity for a bit of our grand panoply of matter to direct its own future. And, I believe, the horror of death is in that return to idleness and loss of control. We don't want to return to the sidelines, to be put back on the shelf. We don't want to become mere stuff again. We want to keep playing the game.
Because now I know what I'd be missing.
Times like that, we experience it in one direction only
Tbf nobody has ever experienced either because experience is exclusive to being alive and conscious
This is a very deep and true post for a shitpost. It’s basically when you go to sleep and don’t dream, but you don’t wake up. It’s just a black void of nothingness.