Thinking about death

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Tinfoil Papercut: Jul 27, 2016; by Athanatos

I was on the toilet and thinking about my own mortality (again) and getting that weird sense of dread you feel in your chest. Does anyone else get that? It's when I think about there being nothing after death and that it's inevitable.

But then I had a funny thought: I already was dead. I was dead before I was born and it didn't bother me in the slightest. 4 billion years I was dead and it was no problem. So I guess being dead isn't so bad.

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Whooping Crabs: Apr 13, 2010; Sorry for the derail but I fuckin love me some racoons

If you can distract yourself long enough from the fact that life is meaningless and death is inevitable then life isn't so bad.

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Hardawn: Mar 15, 2004; Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates; College Slice

Yeah but then I cum inside your mother and relief washes over me

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Skypie: Sep 28, 2008

"Thinking About Death" is the name of a quest in Destiny 2

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Kosmo Gallion: Sep 13, 2013

Being dead isn't the scary part, it's the dying.

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Grevling: Dec 18, 2016

Billions of living things have been alived and died. But only a few of them had the chance to register and post at forums.somethingawful.com

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Hairy Right Hook: Sep 9, 2001; Hee to the ho

Getting blackout drunk to simulate my inevitable fade into oblivion

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qkkl: Jul 1, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

I get that feeling from time to time but it always just ends up being gas and goes away with some forced burping.

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ClamdestineBoyster: Aug 15, 2015; Can't post for 10 years!

Time to poo poo or get off the pot buddy. :shrek:

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BigBadSteve: Apr 29, 2009

qkkl posted:

I get that feeling from time to time but it always just ends up being gas and goes away with some forced burping.

You can do this to a dead body too.

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DrPossum: May 15, 2004; i am not a surgeon

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

I was on the toilet and thinking about my own mortality (again) and getting that weird sense of dread you feel in your chest. Does anyone else get that? It's when I think about there being nothing after death and that it's inevitable.

But then I had a funny thought: I already was dead. I was dead before I was born and it didn't bother me in the slightest. 4 billion years I was dead and it was no problem. So I guess being dead isn't so bad.

i usually get a sense of relief on the toliet op

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Kazak: Jan 10, 2012

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

I was dead before I was born and it didn't bother me in the slightest. 4 billion years I was dead and it was no problem. So I guess being dead isn't so bad.

Lot of assumptions you got here, how do you know you were dead and conked out before birth?

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Who What Now: Sep 10, 2006; by Azathoth

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

I was on the toilet and thinking about my own mortality (again) and getting that weird sense of dread you feel in your chest. Does anyone else get that? It's when I think about there being nothing after death and that it's inevitable.

But then I had a funny thought: I already was dead. I was dead before I was born and it didn't bother me in the slightest. 4 billion years I was dead and it was no problem. So I guess being dead isn't so bad.

Way to steal a quote from Mark Twain (supposedly).

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jemand: Sep 19, 2018

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

I was on the toilet and thinking about my own mortality (again) and getting that weird sense of dread you feel in your chest. Does anyone else get that? It's when I think about there being nothing after death and that it's inevitable.

But then I had a funny thought: I already was dead. I was dead before I was born and it didn't bother me in the slightest. 4 billion years I was dead and it was no problem. So I guess being dead isn't so bad.

Eat more fiber op, toilet time isn't meant to be that bad...

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adamarama: Mar 20, 2009

If it's any consolation OP, there is no you in the first place. Your very sense of self is merely a by product of electrical signals in a particular brain. Consciousness is an evolutionary adaptation. It's quite liberating to know that life is meaningless. It lets you relax and enjoy the little things - family, nature, alcohol.

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Tinfoil Papercut: Jul 27, 2016; by Athanatos

Kazak posted:

Lot of assumptions you got here, how do you know you were dead and conked out before birth?

Well I wasn't alive. How is being dead any different than before you were born?

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bring back old gbs: Feb 28, 2007; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

thinki bout thos big goth titties

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Kazak: Jan 10, 2012

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

Well I wasn't alive. How is being dead any different than before you were born?

Do you remember the womb/infancy? Or precisely everything you did after your brain became able to recall the past?

You were there even if you don't remember being there, saying you weren't somewhere just because you don't remember doesn't mean it's true

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ClamdestineBoyster: Aug 15, 2015; Can't post for 10 years!

You guys ever get some right guard deodorant and think to youreself, did I just get ripped off here? My left pit is still going to stink because I didnt get left guard. So you go back to the store half stankin and ask the stockboy where the gently caress the left guard is and he says �were all out srry bub�. And then an old man overhears you and pulls you aside and says, �you know what deodorant is? Bar soap in a plastic tube. You can literally just use dry bar soap for deodorant it�s the same poo poo sodium laureth sulfate or whatever�. And then all the lies you have been told over the years begin unraveling and you start seeing the world through bitter and cynical eyes, questioning everything from French fries to eye shadow. Is it a huge conspiracy, are we all just blind? So blind that we buy deodorant that only works for one arm? :thunk:

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Kazak: Jan 10, 2012

Lol clam

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Tinfoil Papercut: Jul 27, 2016; by Athanatos

Kazak posted:

Do you remember the womb/infancy? Or precisely everything you did after your brain became able to recall the past?

You were there even if you don't remember being there, saying you weren't somewhere just because you don't remember doesn't mean it's true

My point was only that:

Prior to me existing - I did not exist.
After existing - I will no longer exist.

The way I see it, not being alive is the same as not being born yet. As such, I already went through the first phase of non-existence. This is only if you hold time as a real thing.

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Tinfoil Papercut: Jul 27, 2016; by Athanatos

I think they frontload the perfume on the first 1/8'' of a deodorant stick, which is why you notice the scent so much at first but not as you use it more.

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Over There: Jun 28, 2013; by Azathoth

all the drat time OP

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Over There: Jun 28, 2013; by Azathoth

When you really think about it, it's a near drat impossible chance that you're here. Everything had to go exactly a certain way for you to gain consciousness.

If infinity goes both ways towards the past and the future, how is it even possible that you're experiencing this right now?

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Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Grevling posted:

Billions of living things have been alived and died. But only a few of them had the chance to register and post at forums.somethingawful.com

I don't think 200k is a "few" buddy

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Kazak: Jan 10, 2012

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

My point was only that:

Prior to me existing - I did not exist.
After existing - I will no longer exist.

The way I see it, not being alive is the same as not being born yet. As such, I already went through the first phase of non-existence. This is only if you hold time as a real thing.

My point is you are defining the boundaries of existence by what you remember, everything outside your memory is non existence. It might be, but it might have been an existence you can't recall.

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spacetoaster: Feb 10, 2014

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

I was on the toilet and thinking about my own mortality (again) and getting that weird sense of dread you feel in your chest. Does anyone else get that? It's when I think about there being nothing after death and that it's inevitable.

But then I had a funny thought: I already was dead. I was dead before I was born and it didn't bother me in the slightest. 4 billion years I was dead and it was no problem. So I guess being dead isn't so bad.

My parents are atheist and I was raised to believe that death was just oblivion. When I asked them about it (I think I was 5 or so) I was told that death was just like being in a dreamless sleep and it won't matter that you don't exist anymore because you won't be able to care.

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Who What Now: Sep 10, 2006; by Azathoth

Kazak posted:

My point is you are defining the boundaries of existence by what you remember, everything outside your memory is non existence. It might be, but it might have been an existence you can't recall.

And pixies might fart out french fries, but you're still retarded if you think that's true.

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Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Who What Now posted:

And pixies might fart out french fries, but you're still retarded if you think that's true.

cant say that.

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Tinfoil Papercut: Jul 27, 2016; by Athanatos

Kazak posted:

My point is you are defining the boundaries of existence by what you remember, everything outside your memory is non existence. It might be, but it might have been an existence you can't recall.

Oh that's fine with me.

Would anyone else be absolutely STOKED to see a ghost? Imagine being that poor ghost:

Ghost: *Ghost appears all scary like*
Me: "YESSSSSS WOOOOOOOOO! Thank CHRIST!"
Ghost: "...Wh....What?"
Me: "OH GOD! This is so good - oh this is such a relief!"
Ghost: "What the hell are you talking about?"
Me: "Oh there's an afterlife! an AFTERLIFE!"
Ghost: "So not scared at all?"
Me: "NOPE! Why would I be?"

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Linnear: Nov 3, 2010

Just take a poo poo and wipe your rear end.

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Dixville: Nov 4, 2008; I don't think!; Ham Wrangler

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

Time to poo poo or get off the pot buddy.

Or you could be like Elvis and die in your bathroom!

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Grevling: Dec 18, 2016

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

Oh that's fine with me.

Would anyone else be absolutely STOKED to see a ghost? Imagine being that poor ghost:

Ghost: *Ghost appears all scary like*
Me: "YESSSSSS WOOOOOOOOO! Thank CHRIST!"
Ghost: "...Wh....What?"
Me: "OH GOD! This is so good - oh this is such a relief!"
Ghost: "What the hell are you talking about?"
Me: "Oh there's an afterlife! an AFTERLIFE!"
Ghost: "So not scared at all?"
Me: "NOPE! Why would I be?"

Ghost: but I am in constant pain

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Dixville: Nov 4, 2008; I don't think!; Ham Wrangler

Grevling posted:

Ghost: but I am in constant pain

Existence is suffering hth

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Colonel Cancer: Sep 26, 2015; Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Identity and time are mere illusions so laugh at that fool who is no longer you.

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Dixville: Nov 4, 2008; I don't think!; Ham Wrangler

This thread needs crossover with World Toilet Day 2018 imho

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Colonel Cancer: Sep 26, 2015; Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

I can't wait to get flushed down the Universal Toilet

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ClamdestineBoyster: Aug 15, 2015; Can't post for 10 years!

Dixville posted:

Or you could be like Elvis and die in your bathroom!

At least he died doin what he loved! (poopin) :shrek:

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Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

When you die, you become a cool skeleton

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Colonel Cancer: Sep 26, 2015; Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

This clogs God's toilet. So he has to let you out and that's how skeleton army gets its recruits.

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