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Topic	If death was a dream that never ended, would you be okay with that?
Josiah_Is_Back 01/29/21 10:29:43 PM #4:	MKScorpion posted... Yeah that's better than what actually happens. Which is nothing. It's going to be like what it was like before you were born. That's weird and hard to comprehend. I know what you mean. When I was young, I would try to comprehend the absence of the universe -- complete oblivion. Not sure why that was on my mind at a young age, but it was, and I suppose it's psychologically equivalent to trying to comprehend my own demise, but on a grander scale. Superficially one can say "yeah, the absence of the universe, okay, so there's nothing, duh, easy to understand." But I would seriously focus on it, close my eyes, and meditate on nothing. No space. No time. Just nothing. And sometimes I felt like I would get close, inching a bit toward understanding an unfathomable notion, something my mere mortal mind is incapable of comprehending -- but even that tiny, infinitesimal foray into grasping oblivion left me with such a profound sense of... I can't even really describe it. Philosophical terror, awe. It's an ineffable sensation. --- Venmo @JosiahP17 (Send some cash my way because I said so) <cite>Josiah_Is_Back posted [p:950073696] in If death w... [t:79267531]...</cite> <quote>MKScorpion posted... </cite> <quote>Yeah that's better than what actually happens. Which is nothing. It's going to be like what it was like before you were born. That's weird and hard to comprehend.</quote> I know what you mean. When I was young, I would try to comprehend the absence of the universe -- complete oblivion. Not sure why that was on my mind at a young age, but it was, and I suppose it's psychologically equivalent to trying to comprehend my own demise, but on a grander scale. Superficially one can say "yeah, the absence of the universe, okay, so there's nothing, duh, easy to understand." But I would seriously focus on it, close my eyes, and meditate on nothing. No space. No time. Just nothing. And sometimes I felt like I would get close, inching a bit toward understanding an unfathomable notion, something my mere mortal mind is incapable of comprehending -- but even that tiny, infinitesimal foray into grasping oblivion left me with such a profound sense of... I can't even really describe it. Philosophical terror, awe. It's an ineffable sensation. --- Venmo @JosiahP17 (Send some cash my way because I said so)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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