Not only that but we dont understand time and the nature of the universe. Say youre driving down a road and see a sign . It gets bigger and bigger, then, when you pass it, gets smaller and finally disappears. Does it mean it no longer exists? Or maybe you can go back and see it again.
Depends. Some people have lives that are a constant misery, and probably don't realize it.
*chuckles*
There has been that emptiness lately...
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After Heidegger's "Being and Time" I have to wonder that the "nothingness" here is the inability to experience and remember anything..
Whatever you do, whatever you say, whatever you think, who ever you befriend, it all disappears. Forever.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
It's fine to say "I believe this, I have no evidence or logic to support it with, it's only based on faith so there's no debate to be had". That's a respectable and honest position.
But it doesn't make the claim undebatable, it just means you don't have a foundation to support it.
If you mean it's so obvious that there's no point debating it, then presenting the evidence that makes it so obvious would end the debate pretty quickly. Problem with that claim is that no one is able to produce such evidence.
No science, no philosopher, has ever not admitted that nihilism is the absolute believe you could currently have. Heidegger wrote so much terminology to carry this message... for nothing indeed. The first and most powerful madness you can fall to is "I AM". lol.
Wither and die, that's what mankind should do, honestly.
I guess it simply ends. It's just like how it was before you were born
Like sleep except there's no dreams. It's scary to think about but its also kind of calming tbh. To know that eventually every little thing you've worried about and dealt with won't actually matter in the end.
when you are young you are terrified of death and the thought of not existing some day. once you get old and start having health and other issues you will welcome it
This is where reincarnation comes to my mind. It's like when you go to sleep. There's that moment when you fall asleep and you seem to like fast forward to morning. You have no recollection of what happened between the time you were still awake and when you woke up. Another example is when you go for your wisdom teeth pulling and they knock you out with that stuff. When I got mine pulled I just remember laying in the chair thing and then next thing I knew I woke up at my house sitting in my living room chair with my head hanging down. It was like I was a walking mindless zombie before I came to.
That's why I sort of kind of believe in reincarnation. I think at some point during the "nothingness" you wake up as a kid again but have no recollection of your past life. Like you're obviously not the same person anymore but you get to control a different body and mind and in a different time or hell maybe a different planet. It's really interesting to me to think of this.
No one knows what happens when you die so you can't just say "there's nothing, game over" because you can't say that with certainty. For all you know maybe we wake up next to Morpheus and our fight against the machines begins. I just find it hard to believe that there is just nothingness forever. There has to be something.
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to be sincere: the idea of your very own mortality IS horrifying and usually nobody sane enough likes to think it through.
Isn't nothingness devoid of everything? What else is there to say about it? You can't be there to experience nothingness because then it would have something.
i'm mostly agnostic, believe there's most likely something out there. it's hell, it's not easy. i fear death more than anything, because i don't know what i'm going into. i hope it's just the end, i'd be so happy about that. but i'm worried it's one of the many versions of underworlds.
i can actually imagine nothing. when i do it, it's only for a half a second and i slightly panic and snap away from it. it's scary, but at least it's peace.