• OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    The previous billions of years of void was a grandiose buildup to the world’s largest nothing-burger, followed by an eternity of void again.

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    8 hours ago

    You can’t “experience” nothingness. Even if you could, you can fear things you’ve experienced before…

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    12 hours ago

    This strangely made me feel a better about the concept of death.

    Sometimes I think about it and fall in a few seconds of existential dread. But this kinda…makes it make sense?

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      6 hours ago

      If I knew for a fact that I was going to die instantly, without even knowing it happened, I’d be worried about how my loved ones would feel, but okay with it as far as I’m concerned.

  • rumba@lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    We are genetically configured to survive at all costs. That fear is simply the wiring in your head ensuring you do what you can to survive.

    You can safely compartmentalize it. store it up there with your irrational fear of clowns.

  • flango@lemmy.eco.br
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    13 hours ago
    And I am not frightened of dying, 
    any time will do, I don't mind
    Why should I be frightened of dying?
    There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime
    
    
  • HalfSalesman@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    What I really don’t understand is bringing more people into temporarily existing without the ability to get their consent and calling it a “gift” that now they get to face the lovecraftian horror of future non-existence.

    Pre-birth is not like post death. The arrow of time doesn’t reverse.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtf
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    18 hours ago

    About 22 years ago or so, after not taking psilocybe mushrooms for a couple years, fasting for 24 hours, I took an uncounted tens of grams of dried, fine-powdered, strong psilocybe semilanceata, hot, in just lemon juice, and chugged that pint of thick mushroom super-lemony brew down as fast as i could. It started coming on FAST and STRONG. Ran the 3 strides to the bathroom sink with need to purge, which didn’t last long nor purge much of it… clinging to the sink as I slumped down, with the trip immensity roaring at the doors bursting in at all the seams, I tried to steady myself, I meditatively focused on a drop of water, empathising with it likewise clinging to the underside of the sink. I empathised my way instantly to know where every molecule, and every atom, of the water in there, had ever been, and it was a short jump from there to realise I could do that with everything. My experience is that every atom, every subatomic particle, have omnidirectional infinite sense of the entire cosmos… and this was only in the beginning seconds of the hours long trip, the ability to see behind things, to know from every perspective, everybody, all time, all times, all dimensions, all realms, all places, all interacting potentials… I cant speak to it really, only to say I remember I did experience it. Cannot take it all back with you.

    First exchange with other people after I came out of the toilet, friends had come around, one asked “how was it?”, and with it all still being fresh, the immensity of having experienced omniscience, sought to offer what I thought was the most beautiful thing of it all… I said, with all glowing reverie “I know death”. The look of horror on the poor dear’s face though. Ho ho ho.

    But yeah, get that… we mere mortals, many, all around, can experience omniscience.

    And many are, and ever have. Say hi.