I was convinced that death would not be my end, that I would survive the destruction of my body and continue on, unaffected by the world, no longer apart of it.
In a sober mindset, I know that’s bullshit, there is no afterlife.
Not to make you second guess yourself but it always trips me up when people say they know that there is no post death experience. It seem gnostic.
The shrooms statement could be true for some perspectives and is impossible to proof either way. The idea can be used practically, to understand that death is nothing to worry about and even comfortable can make it easier to live life in the moment. But i have no idea why a healthy person would seek it out because it’l happen on its own for everyone anyway. Might as well live out the magic of this reality now as i experience it.
Not to make you second guess yourself but it always trips me up when people say they know that there is no post death experience. It seem gnostic.
I hate to break it to ya, but I’ve tried Chaos Magick, Buddhism, Christianity, and New Age… and all the time, it felt like I was lying to myself. That I was desprately clinging on because I was so afraid of death. But the truth is, there is no God.
I really want there to be a God, but our universe is well documented and contains no sign of design or purpose. Life was not created, it evolved, and I’m not so sure it was a good idea to develop conciousness. What cruelty is it to give life to something that knows it is destined to die, the universe is a harsh mistress.
Mankind has dreamed of a light we go into after death, to seek an even greater purpose and fulfillment than we had in life, but it is just a dream. Neurology has proven conciousness is all in the brain, once the brain goes, so do you. How I wish I could live the “life” of a spirit, unattached from the world and unable to be harmed by it; free to go where I want and do what I will.
Believing in magic made sense in the Bronze Age, but in the modern day we have measured and labeled the things of the world, and not a drop of that inventory includes the mystical.
I wish I could offer an empty platitude about how life has more meaning because it’s finite, or how the wonders of the natural world are good enough. I’d be lying if I did however.
The Universe is eternal, matter and energy are never truly created or destroyed, it merely changes form. Our conciousness however, is an exception to this, it started when we were born and it will end with our death. The universe is eternal, but we are temporary.
I take no joy in telling you this, but it is a horror that we must learn to accept.
No worried, i am agnostic, spiritual but not at all religious.
I wouldn’t recommend to put much actual trust in any of the human myths you previously studied
I am asking because, i find it noteworthy that within atheism you are still clinging to gnosticism.
Gnostic means you believe something and seem absolutely certain about it.
Agnostic means you are inclined to believe some things, under the knowledge that you could be wrong.
When you say you know how most of the universe is infinite, but then consciousness is without any actual proof an exception to this, then i would interpret that as a religious belief of some kind.
Anyway there are a near infinite ways to interpret reality. To me everything appears emerged from a singular point that factually expanded into many smaller things that can then interact with eachother, from which more interactions emerge till at some point all possible interactions between all possible things have occurred. I call this maximalisation of reality and it came from the tough experiment of if i had infinite space, time and knowledge what would do with it all. The answer was to experience that all. Good, bad, no judgement or goal, just all.
You don’t need to concern yourself with that neither do i suggest you take it as truth but you seem like an open minded person and i think the concept of agnostic spirituality could serve as an inspiration to enhance your view of life without having to pick a fixed truth you cant deviate from.
This is why the statistic on gun ownership and suicide is so true, also please find some cool tripsitters before you do this again
I was convinced that death would not be my end, that I would survive the destruction of my body and continue on, unaffected by the world, no longer apart of it.
In a sober mindset, I know that’s bullshit, there is no afterlife.
Not to make you second guess yourself but it always trips me up when people say they know that there is no post death experience. It seem gnostic.
The shrooms statement could be true for some perspectives and is impossible to proof either way. The idea can be used practically, to understand that death is nothing to worry about and even comfortable can make it easier to live life in the moment. But i have no idea why a healthy person would seek it out because it’l happen on its own for everyone anyway. Might as well live out the magic of this reality now as i experience it.
I hate to break it to ya, but I’ve tried Chaos Magick, Buddhism, Christianity, and New Age… and all the time, it felt like I was lying to myself. That I was desprately clinging on because I was so afraid of death. But the truth is, there is no God.
I really want there to be a God, but our universe is well documented and contains no sign of design or purpose. Life was not created, it evolved, and I’m not so sure it was a good idea to develop conciousness. What cruelty is it to give life to something that knows it is destined to die, the universe is a harsh mistress.
Mankind has dreamed of a light we go into after death, to seek an even greater purpose and fulfillment than we had in life, but it is just a dream. Neurology has proven conciousness is all in the brain, once the brain goes, so do you. How I wish I could live the “life” of a spirit, unattached from the world and unable to be harmed by it; free to go where I want and do what I will.
Believing in magic made sense in the Bronze Age, but in the modern day we have measured and labeled the things of the world, and not a drop of that inventory includes the mystical.
I wish I could offer an empty platitude about how life has more meaning because it’s finite, or how the wonders of the natural world are good enough. I’d be lying if I did however.
The Universe is eternal, matter and energy are never truly created or destroyed, it merely changes form. Our conciousness however, is an exception to this, it started when we were born and it will end with our death. The universe is eternal, but we are temporary.
I take no joy in telling you this, but it is a horror that we must learn to accept.
No worried, i am agnostic, spiritual but not at all religious.
I wouldn’t recommend to put much actual trust in any of the human myths you previously studied
I am asking because, i find it noteworthy that within atheism you are still clinging to gnosticism.
Gnostic means you believe something and seem absolutely certain about it.
Agnostic means you are inclined to believe some things, under the knowledge that you could be wrong.
When you say you know how most of the universe is infinite, but then consciousness is without any actual proof an exception to this, then i would interpret that as a religious belief of some kind.
Anyway there are a near infinite ways to interpret reality. To me everything appears emerged from a singular point that factually expanded into many smaller things that can then interact with eachother, from which more interactions emerge till at some point all possible interactions between all possible things have occurred. I call this maximalisation of reality and it came from the tough experiment of if i had infinite space, time and knowledge what would do with it all. The answer was to experience that all. Good, bad, no judgement or goal, just all.
You don’t need to concern yourself with that neither do i suggest you take it as truth but you seem like an open minded person and i think the concept of agnostic spirituality could serve as an inspiration to enhance your view of life without having to pick a fixed truth you cant deviate from.