(May 31, 2019 at 2:40 am)TristanJ Wrote: Hello, I've been looking for a place to discuss my thoughts again I've never gone to church's as an adult or anything i'm not devoted to anything i basically told everyone i didn't believe as a child and as a teenager. But for a while iv'e had a fear of "Hell" that's always succeeded to scare the crap out of me even though this has been rehashed and debunked over and over again but iv'e not had that problem for a while because i'm not focused on it and i believe it's just some kind of mental thing i have to learn to get over it. What iv'e recently been struggling with is actually entirely different i'm getting to the point where i want to let go of the idea of "Spirituality" as in the supernatural and that's something i'd never thought i'd find myself admitting or saying. I realize this is silly but i'm scared of letting go and there being "Nothing" if that makes sense? any advice or help with this fear would be great.
Iv'e been trying to convince myself that nothings not the end but it sorta is, and isn't....i don't want to see myself as dust to be honest....i'm supposed to be comforted by this yet i'm not. I'm more angry i can't get over this as quickly as i'd prefer because i feel it's been long enough and i'm going in a repeated cycle brake out of the fear of hell? jump into the fear of letting go and realizing the end is truly the end that should be motivating right? Now i'm rambling and i'll let people reply or not reply.
(I'm sorry for my bad grammar and spelling)
I fear death too, but I don't fear not existing. I also was not around 4 billion years ago.
You don't need a fictional forever to be motivated to live. Think about mundane things in your life you do that also you know end.
You go to a movie knowing it ends, but you still go and enjoy it. You go to a music concert knowing it plays a last song, but you still go and enjoy it. You go to a sporting event knowing one team will win, one will lose, and you still go and enjoy it. You read a good book knowing it has a last page, but you still read it. You get a pet cat or pet dog, you enjoy them, but you live longer, and even after they die, you might get another one and enjoy that one too.
Saying that life ends does not have to make you depressed nor is it fatalistic or pessimistic to accept that reality. What you have now is important, and life while you are alive is what you make it, not what others say you have to believe or do.
You can still feel love, you will still have some pain, but you wont be tortured for eternity by anything.
I fear prolonged pain, I fear my loved ones missing me. But again, I have no fear of fictional punishment anymore than I fear life before I was born.
I still see lots of good in life. I still have family and friends I love. I simply do not assign anything good or bad that might happen in life to old mythology.
