Death

[Napoléon]

Trees are alive but more than likely don't know it.

But what difference does it make if they do or don't. The point still remains

[houseofcantor]

In a nutshell: If everything you are is gone when you die, then how is it possible to even experience life? We would not remember it.

Better?

No. Probability assumes greater causal sequence than all the Planck time in the universe. The eternal now is merely twelve minutes. Besides, who gives a fuck? If you ain't dead, you prolly shouldn't be talking like you know death.

[Thorham]

If one day everything is just gone, then why do we experience life as it is?

How do you even know this?

[R-e-n-n-a-t]

Seven billion individuals simultaneously exist right now, all experiencing consciousness, plus however many billion conscious animals - why am I the consciousness in THIS body, right here, right now, and not any of the others right now or in any time previous? Why aren't I YOU, reading this post, or both of us, or nobody at all? It's all a bit freaky when you start to wrap your head around it but of course there is no real answer.

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Ah ha! Someone else gets the 1st person viewpoint conundrum. I tried to explain this to the rest of my class once, but their brains were utterly destroyed by the concept. It is rather tough to explain. It's not so much an explanation of why as of how, however.

This seems to reinforce the notion that time is not a linear progression. Strange...
I shall have to contemplate this for the next fifty years.

[Christian]

If one day everything is just gone, then why do we experience life as it is? Most people have their first memory at around age 2-3. You have no recollection of your life as an infant, so it seems to you that one day you just pop into existence because you can't remember anything prior. So if one day all of our memories cease to exist, then how is it that we are living life now? Wouldn't it work the same way as it did as an infant? Where I would not remember all these years and just cease to exist? If that's the case then we shouldn't even experience ourselves as "alive". Thoughts?

Death is just a pathway for eternal bliss.

[fuckass365]

Death is just a pathway for eternal bliss.

Then why don't you just kill yourself?

[KichigaiNeko]

This should be good suicide by religious Methodism methods...

[Epimethean]

The Killing Method(ist) ...

[KichigaiNeko]

Death Cults!! FTW!! What a joke!

[cdabamsworth]

Not strictly topical, but I like what Penn Jillette said:

"I say to people who are scared of death, 'You weren't alive in 1890. Does that scare you?' They say, 'No, why would it?' I say, 'So why does 2090 scare you?'"