Death.

[Lackadaisy]

Is death like anuddah shoah?

Maybe once God gets off his lazy ass and decides that we're worth it. /p much what it says in the Torah

 

[Daughter of Cernunnos]

I believe in reincarnation. That doesn't mean it's real. Just that I personally think it is. I think that your mind and your soul are two different things. Your soul is the energy that gives you life. Your mind is the spark of consciousness that makes you who you are. The mind is physical. It's a lump of nerves and cells and synapses that just so happens to be engineered to make use of your soul. Maybe evolution started to develop brains to make as much use out of that energy as possible. Everything else could just be a fluke as minds developed more. When you die the life energy gets recycled into something else. If you are lucky enough to be human again or at least some form of sentient being, then what's in your brain is what makes use of that energy and forms a personality. So in essence you are conscious yet again. But you just don't realise it's not the first time. I think maybe it's like having amnesia every 80 years or so. Maybe it can leave a residual impression if people who claim they remember past incarnations are for real.

I'm not religious though. I don't really care about the gods or the God or whatever. I honestly don't think it matters if they exist. For all I know we die and then wake up on a higher plane only to find we're still countless levels below where everyone wants to be. God could be God to us but a peon to something way bigger on another plane. Who knows. I think we all think smaller than we realise because it keeps us sane.

Interesting idea. An Orphic conception of the afterlife was that after death the unitiated become shades, pale shadows of their former shelf. Their minds degrade, they thirst and hunger especially if descendents to not give them offerings.

Despite the degradation of the mind, the soul itself is intact and is reborn when the souls drink from Lethe in their thirst. But they have no memory of their former lives because Lethe is the river of obivlion and forgetfulness. People initated into mysteries traditions sometimes have a special oppourtunity to drink from the well of Memory and escape the cycle of obilvion, suffering and rebirth.

https://bakcheion.wordpress.com/prepare/the-story/

 

[The Kebab and Calculator]

I am not scared of death at all. Indeed in some ways it is a rather comforting prospect.

I am not so keen on the prospect of the pain which may be the precursor to death... I do not do pain well at all.

 

[nonnewtonian]

The inevitability of death doesn't really scare me. I've made my peace with the fact that one day I'm not going to be here anymore. What gets me is the unpredictably. I don't know when I'm going to die. I don't know how I'm going to die. Like most people I want to go peacefully in my sleep at an old age, but I could bite the dust tomorrow in a car accident and feel nothing but agony in my final moments as I bleed out on the pavement.
That's what scares me.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

reincarnation

Living as a limited mortal over and over again isn't an appealing idea.

Spoiler

And with reincarnation, there's the risk of being born in a life like that of CWC or ADF.

 

[bbpoison]

I think death doesn't exist. I think our consciousness is weaker than we perceive it to be or rather it is an illusion that other people tell us that we are each an isolated identity. Our minds pop in and out like subatomic particles but on a more complex scale that gives an illusion of concreteness but still follows the same pattern. Our bodys are engineered for survival in our evolutionary journey, hence why the concept of death exists. Our environment, existence itself, has formed humanity and now the technological tools that humans created for the improvement of survival are now reorganizing our lives into higher forms of structure (ie: the internet) I believe in the possibility that any form of our static selfs at any given time can be recreated and the infinite possibilities of selves yet not created can be formed as well with future technology. Humans lives ultimately become technological tools. This does not lessen the human experience . Many who glimpse at this realization but still are grounded in traditional understanding of human value see horror and meaninglessness, nihilism. But I believe everthing that happens is part of the process. No matter how isolated you percieve a phenomena to be it is all connected and functioning as one. I believe we are existence itself trying to wake up. There are boundaries that I,as the traditional individual, cannot pass but I with this new found knowledge can transcend them and have no choice but to transcend them for I cannot go back. Of course parts of me forget this but I get reminded again and again.

 

[IAmSad]

Being dead doesn't really scare me, I'm more worried about how I'll die. Burning to death/drowning/bleeding to death/etc... all would suck pretty hard. I think I would be okay with pretty much anything that happens after I die, nothing would be nice since I could finally rest and people could move on from me, heaven/hell would be interesting, the only thing I wouldn't really want is reincarnation. Life is hard, I'm not sure I would want to do it again if given the option...

 

[Shibaru]

Death just Surrounds me in Fear.
My Dreams are Haunted by Death, My Thoughts are Haunted by Death, Even the Happiest thought I Could think of can get Interruped by Death, Death is just Everywhere, I Need Help.