Tobacky

2y

So what is the existence after our life on earth ends?

Prez

2y

it's unknowable. even though it seems like you're living this moment right now, and the past is past and the future is yet to happen, you might be living every moment of your life at all times. or maybe living it in a perpetual loop. idk.

Tobacky

2y

This makes me sad and hopeful at the same time

Prez

2y

the idea of after-life is flawed. not trying to use fiction to make my point but I believe in some true detective szn 1 or Loki type s***, meaning our perception of time as linear is not the whole story. life and after life only makes sense conceptually based on linear time. so yea I believe there is more to our existence than this life, but I don't think of it in the way of "after life"

Prez

2y

to some extent, even consciousness has to be a makeup of atoms. whether that's human consciousness or animal or plant consciousness, it's all just atoms, or some even smaller or unknown substance that we aren't privy to yet. so while yes something happens when someone dies and their consciousness shuts off, the atoms themselves don't go away. they get absorbed into the universe (in our case the earth) and go on to do other things.

Tobacky

2y

Wait what? So I’m still living the past and the future? Huh or the future has already happened?

maxx

2y

i like true detective because in the end rust abandons his pessimism

Prez

2y

well yea, if you could step outside of time (the 4th dimension), things would look a lot differently. but it's impossible for us to perceive how it would look since we live in the 4th dimension i.e. we are beings who perceive time linearly.

americana

2y

Don’t need one don’t want one

Tobacky

2y

So outside the 4th dimension we would know what the future holds for us?

Tobacky

2y

But what if your peace is to be reunited with your loved ones?

Tobacky

2y

So depressing! Imagine grinding all these years just to end to sudden darkness forever

Tobacky

2y

So depressing! Imagine grinding all these years just to end to sudden darkness forever

Tobacky

2y

So depressing! Imagine grinding all these years just to end to sudden darkness forever

Tobacky

2y

Wait what? So I’m still living the past and the future? Huh or the future has already happened?

fakerickhoodie

2y

yea ktt3

Campari

2y

I don't know, reincarnation and an infinite loop sounds exhausting yet sudden darkness forever sounds scary. Just be the best person and enjoy your time on the planet, whatever happens next, happens, that's for another time to worry.

americana

2y

cc @KFA

I can’t live my life hanging on an unknown “maybe” that would require me to submit my entire known life to experiencing it. What if it ends up that there’s no afterlife and my work was wasted, just like you said? I wasted my life for nothing!

No! I know that I am here and I am alive now. All my cards are on the table, I know that I have my agency, my self power, and my goals. Everything I do now should be to be the best person I am in this life. I make sure I enjoy every day, I make sure I do work that I enjoy, work that helps my family, work that helps my community, work that helps the world. But I will never submit myself to my work. Because there is NO excuse to suffer anymore.

My passed loved ones may be gone and it’s a bummer, but an afterlife would only make me long for their presence more. These days I take the time to appreciate what they left behind. They may not be here, but everything they did has had an irreversible effect on me and the world around me and being able to appreciate that has made me much less sad about their loss, especially the ones who loved king and fulfilling lives.

It’s just made me a much more proactive, decisive, appreciative, outgoing, and more positive person because what I am here for is my own experience, my own health, and my own nurturing as I know it

Prez

2y

it wouldn't be exhausting because you wouldn't be aware of it