What if it's all pointless?

Lucid Lounge
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Ok, depressing but real.

In a reality (loose term) where there is no afterlife…

Try picturing for a second that you were to die, no coming back. In a split second which would seem for an eternity, your life flashes before your mind’s eye.

Every memory of a feeling, smell, place, being, or person you knew was all combined into a single fraction of a second, all layed out before you, like a giant mosaic.

And suddenly you looked at yourself, your life in retrospect.

And one by one, all those things before started imploding before your eyes, you try to salvage as many as you can, focusing on one, and all at the same time, but seperatly.

Slowly things faded to black, exponentially.

There was no stopping it.

The more that went, the more confused and scared you got.

And suddenly, you just stopped being, you had no conciousness, no memories left, no senses, no family. Nothing.

What if this was the case? It would suck wouldn’t it?

This is the problem I am facing, this could be a situation we are all in. Some of us take it for granted, some don’t. Some don’t realise that this may be the situation. No heaven or hell, just nothing.

Bleak huh.

Well, there’s no answer 'till your there.

“I know what it’s like to be deaaaad…”

Scary.

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Not scary. I can totally live with that, in fact I’ve been living with that for some six years now. Feels empowering. Seriously, if it sucks that much, then you’re begging the question somewhere.

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I’ve often considered that possibility and it doesn’t bother me either. If you were to become nothing, it wouldn’t suck, it wouldn’t rock, it just wouldn’t anything

The only point in which you could feel bad emotionally about such a thing happening is when you’re alive. If you stopped being with no consciousness and no memories, you wouldn’t feel fear, confusion, or sadness. Non-existence is very neutral in my mind.

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:grin:

do you know what happens when you split an atom ?

just try to make consciousness cease to exist, I dare you

by THE WAY,
beliefs are DANGER-US
,
it is easy to string together a large tabernacle of depressing thoughts and get trapped within them, thinking them to be truth ?

when the causes and conditions for you to exist are sufficient, you come into manifestation, time is not linear, it is a circle,
recommend “No Death, No Fear,” by Thich Nhat Hanh
birth = death :yinyang:
:yinyang: death = birth

when a word is invented, it is duality,
and contains its contrary point,

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No one knows what mysteries lie beyond death, prepare yourself for anything and everything :tongue:

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i think i would far prefer total nonexistence to reincarnation. any reality in which you’re doomed to re-live it for eternity like a scratched record would be hell in my opinion.

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Agreed, coincidentally that’s my worst fear in a nutshell

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Why worry about something that you can never have any control over? It wont change anything and you’ll end up wollowing in big puddle of stinky fear and that’s just silly. :tongue:

Enjoy yourself while you have the wit to do so. :content:

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the answer is simply, it wont end that way.
No sense in worrying what wont happen.

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You cant think like that… Well actualy you can if you want thats what makes life so cool. I choose to think that the afterlife will be awsome. What if the after life is whatever you believe happens happens. Maybie everyone has there own personal afterlife acoording to what they believe. If your Athiest no afterlife, if your Christian… Welcome to heaven, and so on. Even if what you say is true, as you see your life dissapearing forever as you die, it will only hurt for a moment, then youll feel nothing. Forever, and ever, and ever…

Stop the presses… Think about this if that were true that we would dissapear forever. What are the chances that we would excist now. In the sceam of things, and this unbelieveble huge, huge universe. The chances of us excisting at all are very, very slim, and yet… Here we are on this awsome planet going through life. Wondering if there is life after death. So I think the fact that we are here now, more then proves there is life after death.

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If there’s no reason living I can’t possibly do it wrong. If living is dying I’m just stalling myself.

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Ultimately you are living for the survival of humans. Maybe you dont live for very long, but its your contributions in that time that help keep the human race going.

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I also agree with Kava, if everyone got what they were expecting everyone would be happy. Personally i think its abi of a different plain of existence if you know what i mean. Kind of like acension.
Lately ive been thinking its just like a dream, when we die we ‘wake up’ and we’re in another type of world. My guess its abi more spiritually developed.
I also believe ghosts exist, pretty much know it really through experiences, so i kind of think thats where all the passed away are when they havent acsended.
Who knows, im guessing someone on his thread is wrong, nice if we were ALL right though :tongue:

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Another thing that makes me believe in a afterlife is that we dream at night, now if dreams didnt excist, and we just fell asleep, and never dream. I might concider the fact that there is no life after death. So dont worry WCH, I think there is just way too much evidence to support the fact some kind of life after death. Intelligent design everything is just a little to perfect, and wonderfull. Eat a peach. Take a walk on an Cool Fall day, look up at the starts, lucid dream, look to the future, embrace whats to come. Its hard not to feel Gods love. I think we are all safe, and we are all loved, and there is no reason what so ever to be afraid. I know this. Things are going to get really entersting.

Now for something somewhat random… This is a great end of the world song.

youtube.com/watch?v=of8TRBdCsKA

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There is no afterlife in my opinion.

Live life while you have it.

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I happen to believe in an afterlife, but (coincidentally) I was considering this just today. It would be bleak to have that looming over you, but in my opinion, if I’m on death’s door about to fade from existence, I can rest in peace just so long as I know I’ve lived life with no regrets. There’s no stopping it if that is what happens, so we may as well enjoy what we have now, right?

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No-one has a clue at what happens after you die, and so for anyone to be certain that one thing or the other is true, that is possible over-the-top optimism/pessimism, and definite closed-mindedness. I would hope it doesn’t just end, I tend to think that it probably does just end, but I really don’t know, and neither does anyone else.

There is a slim chance that we may find out one day. I’m not placing any bet on that however.

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I believe that theres an afterlife, but since I cant think in eternal circles I get scared, maybe theres an afterlife, but what if theres no afterlife after the afterlife? :scared: this thought is scaring me, not the thought about this life.

Also, it seems pointless for me if we lose our memory in the beginning of each life :grrr:

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I think that to a certain extent, the people saying that what you believe happens, happens could be heading in the right direction.

Energy cannot be extinguished right? And we’re all made up of energy particles of one type and another. Since energy can only ever be transfered or dispersed does it not make sense that at the point of death, the energy powering our bodies disperses into the universe? We become everything at once. Some particles may remain cohesive dependant on the strength of personal image and/or faith the person had in life and therefore remains in some form of consciousness within the energy creating a signiture which can form thier will. Some don’t belive that they’re dead=ghosts. Some believe that they will be reborn and their energy will move in that manner=Reincarnation. Some believe that they will go to Heaven/Hell and construct that reality for themselves. Whichever frequency we end up vibrating at (belief we hold) will attract us to others of the same or similar and we then construct another ‘reality’ to contribute to.

Why? Because we are at our core an arrongant race, believing that everything has been gifted to us to do as we please. What should happen is that we all disperse back into the universal energy and allow the Universe itself to decide where it needs energy to be expended in order to restore and maintain the balance that we’ve so comprehensively screwed up.

I myself will be giving it up to the Universe the second I’m dead, I don’t intend to hold onto anything of myself because I think it would be selfish to do so.

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Well, I’ve decided that since we don’t know for sure that we have a purpose in life, I assume that basically, we have none, so basically, you might as well live life to the FULL! Spread the lovin’, make it an adventure and create memories to treasure :smile: Helping others is a great purpose to life as well if you want a purpose to life.

So yea, peace out doods!