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Or does it?

I know we were once nothing, but it is still terrifying and depressing to me to think about returning to this. In fact, as of late, I've been unable to not think about it: the loss of all experience and all memories of everything, forever. All the good times we had, and will have, with anyone or anything ever will totally annihilate into nothingness. All our efforts will amount to nothing because the thoughtless void is ultimately what awaits everything in the end.

The only argument against this would have to be supernatural, like another cause of the Big Bang or somehow proof of reincarnation, but if my consciousness won't exist for me to experience it, then what does it matter either way?

There is no comfort in Hell, either. The anvil of death weighing down, infinitely, on all values and passions is becoming unbearable for me, so I could really use any potentially helpful thoughts about this matter.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm talking about our consciousness, though. It doesn't matter what the individual atoms do if we individually end up losing our own capacity to experience the best that our lives have to offer (unless you're beset by some major chronic illness, of course, but that's not what I'm talking about here).

However, if you believe death isn't the end, I'd love to read your thoughts because I'd love for it to not be true. All the evidence suggests that it is, though...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

It doesn’t matter to our current consciousness as it can’t perceive anything outside of that. We do not know what is beyond our rudimentary understanding of what makes us who we are.

Something like this seems far more likely to me than consciousness being finite.

https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI

Keyword being like this, as in whatever is actually going on is far beyond our comprehension, but it’s a nice palatable story that gives it shape. Consciousness might exist beyond death as part of a universal ‘field of awareness’ and reality could be a holographic projection from a deeper non local field of information. Upon death the quantum information could “return” to the universe (orchestrated objective reduction), Monadism, fractal consciousness, pantheism, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I read that short story years back, yeah. I am also aware of the possibility that we could be in a lifelong simulation, which actually sort of falls back in line with Christian thought about this life just being a prelude to the real one.

I guess I just wish we had to go off more than merely hypothesizing...