Trigger Warning What if we have it all wrong about death?

[M1sterEd]

What if life is not the wonderful ideology we are told it is and death is the favorable state to astride for? That would indicate all along we’ve been lied to by the innocence of fear portrayed by death. Life is a precursor to death could it be death is the joy of living and not life itself.

This does not mean we should hurry death along on the contrary we must wait for death to choose us and only then are we prepared to be fulfilled by death. No one really knows what happens when our physical bodies close down and fail to regenerate. Does consciousness continue and to what purpose does our conscious serve without a brain and body to move about? It seem egotistical and vain to assume our consciousness is stored or continue to be useful in the grand scheme of things, after all we are merely creatures like animals born on earth waiting for….death?

What is it worth to live if not to live fully without regret? Regret is like living under a wet blanket where to the spark of life is snuffed out before you can grab it and run with it. Guilt is the same as regret it stifles the mind and slows growth. You must shed this baggage to live fully and consciously. The world is not open to a closed mind. Death may not be the final frontier, one step at a time until…are we there yet? Perhaps death is the wonder we strive for?

 

[Jeanpauldash]

sometimes nothing is better than something. i think it is a lack of quality of life, though. i imagine going to sleep and not waking up is better for some. there's a lack of dreams. i always worried my dreams were manufactured by the government though, so maybe it's better to be free from them. just imo.

 

[The_Selecter]

This is interesting. Please give me some time to think about this

 

[M!$TER-ED]

sometimes nothing is better than something. i think it is a lack of quality of life, though. i imagine going to sleep and not waking up is better for some. there's a lack of dreams. i always worried my dreams were manufactured by the government though, so maybe it's better to be free from them. just imo.

What if food carried a variety of experiences? Say if you eat an eggplant or something purple you would trip on purple haze? Strawberry fields would be forever and candy canes would be like experiencing the multi universe?

 

[Jeanpauldash]

What if food carried a variety of experiences? Say if you eat an eggplant or something purple you would trip on purple haze? Strawberry fields would be forever and candy canes would be like experiencing the multi universe?

don't ask me, i'm just bulimic. i'm j/k. you are entirely fucking correct.

(then you are living for binging and purging. or at least i do)

 

[M!$TER-ED]

don't ask me, i'm just bulimic. i'm j/k. you are entirely fucking correct.

(then you are living for binging and purging. or at least i do)

Sorry to hear that, it would be nice to trip on food though.

 

[ageingpartyfiend]

If there is nothing then it cannot be 'better' because there would be no awareness of the betterness

 

[M!$TER-ED]

maybe there is nothing in death but ironically suppose life is misunderstood to be the thing we live for and all of this time it is death that gives us our kicks?

 

[ageingpartyfiend]

perhaps there will be talking horses beyond the veil

 

[M!$TER-ED]

sometimes nothing is better than something. i think it is a lack of quality of life, though. i imagine going to sleep and not waking up is better for some. there's a lack of dreams. i always worried my dreams were manufactured by the government though, so maybe it's better to be free from them. just imo.

Are dreams a product of imagination based on reality? Can the dream state be activated without sleep or substance?

 

[M!$TER-ED]

perhaps there will be talking horses beyond the veil

Of course

 

[steewith2ees]

I have been shit sacred of dying my whole life and still am. The only time I can accept my mortality as no issue is when using classic hallucinogens, especially acid which allows me significant ego death more reliably than mushrooms.

 

[ageingpartyfiend]

I have been shit sacred of dying my whole life and still am. The only time I can accept my mortality as no issue is when using classic hallucinogens, especially acid which allows me significant ego death more reliably than mushrooms.

I honestly think death looks kinda chill - it's life I seem to run into issues with!

I doubt it will happen but am hoping to be aware of the dying process - I won't be holding on to suffer a few more days if in pain that's for sure. I'm really good at 'letting go' into psychedelic experience and ego death states so I reckon that experience will stand me in good stead! Maybe I can be better at dying than living and finally set a 'good' example

I know the survival instinct in humans is powerful af and that probably helps make us afraid of death (so we keep away from hastening it maybe) but, logically, what is there to fear? The unknown maybe, but the inevitability trumps that in my psyche anyway

It will either be absolute unawareness (my hunch) which cannot be in any way uncomfortable because there is no awareness, with our (unconscious) 'energy' perhaps dissipating to be part of everything. Or, in the 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance that a religion is 'correct' there will be reincarnation (we are unaware of it again, but can I please, please request being sent to some planet where the dominant species is a little less fucked up than here? Thanks in advance) or some kind of afterlife where we all meet again and frolic for all eternity (cool...nice fantasy). Even if we get plunged into the depths of Hell (we won't, its imaginary / social control construct) well, all me mates will be there too and I hear the Devil has all the best droogz and music. Better than harps and clouds etc imo (I do like harps actually, just not for all eternity...now that would be hell

Nothing whatsoever to fear, billions of people have managed to die just fine, and we may as well try to accept the situation because there aint no escaping it!

 

[steewith2ees]

I hones

I honestly think death looks kinda chill - it's life I seem to run into issues with!

I doubt it will happen but am hoping to be aware of the dying process - I won't be holding on to suffer a few more days if in pain that's for sure. I'm really good at 'letting go' into psychedelic experience and ego death states so I reckon that experience will stand me in good stead! Maybe I can be better at dying than living and finally set a 'good' example.

I know the survival instinct in humans is powerful af and that probably helps make us afraid of death (so we keep away from hastening it maybe) but, logically, what is there to fear? The unknown maybe, but the inevitability trumps that in my psyche anyway

It will either be absolute unawareness (my hunch) which cannot be in any way uncomfortable because there is no awareness, with our (unconscious) 'energy' perhaps dissipating to be part of everything. Or, in the 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance that a religion is 'correct' there will be reincarnation (we are unaware of it again, but can I please, please request being sent to some planet where the dominant species is a little less fucked up than here? Thanks in advance) or some kind of afterlife where we all meet again and frolic for all etenity (cool...nice fantasy). Even if we get plunged into the depths of Hell (we won't, its imaginary / social control construct) well, all me mates will be there too and I hear the Devil has all the best droogz and music. Better than harps and clouds etc imo (I do like harps actually, just not for all eternity...now that would be hell

Nothing whatsoever to fear, billions of people have managed to die just fine, and we may as well try to accept the situation because there aint no escaping it!

I am one of the classically deluded - I was raised as a Roman Catholic and despite my understanding of cosmological physics I still retain some of the psychosis of God being definable. But Im pretty sure being dead will feel exactly the same as I did in the summer of 1975, four years before I was born.

 

[ageingpartyfiend]

I am one of the classically deluded - I was raised as a Roman Catholic and despite my understanding of cosmological physics I still retain some of the psychosis of God being definable. But Im pretty sure being dead will feel exactly the same as I did in the summer of 1975, four years before I was born.

Yeah, that shit runs deep eh

Interesting how you retain that in the full knowledge that it's bollocks innit? Anxiety and logic just don't share a pillow, to say the least. Just shows how absolutely brainwash-abusive the catholic church is, scaring the living shit outta little kids. Sorry you went through that man , the whole shebang makes me feel proper sick