Im going to be dead soon. Some day I will cease to exist, simply gone. Just like the 100 billion other humans who died before me, crumbling to dust and leaving as legacy only the most esoteric and indefinable impacts on the future of humanity through my impacts on the humans around me which will be passed on to their decnedents. And I won't even be remembered for my art just my influence, if I'm lucky
like, what the fuck am I supposed to do????
edit: I forgot to set the community and it defaulted to !earth@hexbear.net so I mean whatever I guess fuck you
I will avenge you when you die and kill whoever did this to you.
Thank you for your service in the struggle to attack and dethrone God.
"Chase Eros, Run Away From Thanatos" have been parallel motivations for humanity for as long as humanity has existed. There is no definitive satisfactory answer even though philosophy itself was primarily established to try to ponder one.
Even some sort of theoretical clinical immortality would have its own problems and unforseen consequences. I'm not even sure that if people could live forever if that would make them really that much happier. Not like techbros wouldn't try to lord over us forever while being increasingly fucked up and weird and monstrous over passing centuries. :no-mouth-must-scream:
Even some sort of theoretical clinical immortality would have its own problems and unforseen consequences. I’m not even sure that if people could live forever if that would make them really that much happier.
I don't think something could exist for 1 million years and not have an extremely spotty memory. There's no way they would remember every single 365,250,000 day of their life.
Even in human lifespans, the perceived passage of time gets more and more compressed as someone gets older because of how much was previously remembered, causing the brain to filter out more and more experiences as redundant.
If you think the ruling class is absentminded and uncaring now, imagine a few centuries or a few millennia later. :no-mouth-must-scream:
All you can really do is accept that there's a yawning void everyone eventually vanishes into and live your best life
I'm in my mid 40s. At some point, I got so fucking tried of literally everything. The idea of death is less terrifying and more peaceful. Like, at least I can stop going to work and worrying about family.
Maybe you'll go through this stage?
Late 40s, and I feel pretty much the same way. I've seen and done pretty much what I'm going to in this life, the rest is just trying to live as peacefully as possible while shepherding some younger people through the dramatic parts. The ongoing climate/warfare/pandemic catastrophe makes that harder, of course, but I've really accepted that while I'll do my best for the young people, I'm going to be an early casualty of the Jackpot, and that's okay.
You're not supposed to be remembered, you're supposed to live a good life and bear witness to the universe.
You will die, and after that you'll be forgotten. Enjoy it while you're here, go hang out with your friends tonight and cherish your time together. Remembering your mortality is a gift of lucidity, of being reminded how important each day is.
like, what the fuck am I supposed to do???
For me it’s take antidepressants, drink, try to overthrow capitalism and try not to think too hard about it
Yep. I have some hope of medical science advancing enough to extend our lifetimes but that will obviously be restricted for the rich. Best thing to do, then is to overthrow them so the means of immortality serum production can be used for the common good of all.
That's the beauty of life
It'll soon end so try to make the most of it while you still can
This seems to be a really common thing when you're still youngish. Middle age and beyond is when it becomes less daunting sometimes. Another user here mentioned being increasingly tired to the point that it does seem like it'll be the much needed release when it comes. But it really all depends on how you come to terms with it.
Something modern cultures lack that I've noticed is the inability to pass down oral histories of their families. They just casually wave them away like they're insignificant and get bothered if you try to pry a little deeper. Learning about your family history and how it's shaped where you are today really expands just how much each seemingly insignificant person has played a role in creating the society we currently live in and it's a tragedy that the practice of remembering them ("Ancestor worship" as the anthropologists stupidly call it) isn't common anymore.
The more spiritual approach isn't really about an afterlife either in the way it's been popularized with the Abrahamic faiths. Afterlife as I grew up knowing it was more that you would lose sense of your being as a human and merge with the overall energy of the earth, becoming a part of it on your own. All attachments you had in your life as a living being dissolve as the Earth takes your being and absorbs you with it. There are some complications with spirits and apparitions that only a select number of people can actually see or interact with, but this is reaching territory that probably sounds hokey to those who haven't lived in the culture.
Just don't obsess over it too much to the point it takes over your mind. Keep living and doing your thing, or take a step back to evaluate your life. Your impact will be felt whether you know it or not.
The more spiritual approach isn’t really about an afterlife either in the way it’s been popularized with the Abrahamic faiths. Afterlife as I grew up knowing it was more that you would lose sense of your being as a human and merge with the overall energy of the earth, becoming a part of it on your own. All attachments you had in your life as a living being dissolve as the Earth takes your being and absorbs you with it. There are some complications with spirits and apparitions that only a select number of people can actually see or interact with, but this is reaching territory that probably sounds hokey to those who haven’t lived in the culture.
As a fantastical counterpart, Final Fantasy's Lifestream seems to make more consistent sense than the average Calvinist "the rich are rich because God preselected them to be the bestest boys and they will also live forever in a magical land because they were preselected for that too" ideology. :ecoterrorism: :an-tifa:
I find peace and purpose in trying to extend my ego or concept of self to include others, particularly working people. I exist as an individual and pretty soon that individual will die. But I also exist as part of a class of people extending into the past and future that will outlive my individual. So fighting for a better world can still be self-interested, even if my individual self may never experience the fruits of the struggle, because my larger social self hopefully will.
We are a species first and foremost. We are all a part of the whole through time, no more and no less than any other. There is peace in seeing the younger people rising up to take my place and love what I loved. It's that love that is most important to me more than anything else, whatever form that love takes I am content.
Or if that's too much of a commitment just watch this one:
I don't think this applies in literally ever case here or to everyone so don't take this is me trying to diagnose anybody or anything but I used to get weird almost like panic attacks about this but only late at night falling asleep, or if I was especially alone at the time and just kind of left to my own thoughts for too long and reminded about it.
Never full blown panic attacks of any kind but just that mental loop that resulted in these crazy horrible feelings, that thing that kinda builds up before one if you know what I mean.
Anyway, my point is when I got properly medicated for ADHD this COMPLETELY went away. Like 100%. I've had medication be unavailable a few times since then as well, and without fail if I am un-medicated for few days to a week in a row it starts happening again.
I think at least in my case it was entirely related to that whole time blindness and being unable to accurately conceptualize how different a few days and a few decades really are, and constantly feeling like I hadn't accomplished anything since x date that is "simultaneously years ago and seemingly yesterday" that always kind of plagues the lucid parts of the ADHD struggle.
When medicated not only can I properly chronologically order things with adequate separation in my head and understand year long achievements aren't meant to be done in days, and more time slots exist than "Now" and "Not now", but I also don't struggle between the "Infinity and oblivion" false choice for every memory I have when rationally calming my mind down about this mental loop. I still have things I'm worried about, or concerns about achieving things, or not wanting to die one day, etc. But I can just choose to think about other things, or break down the thing I'm really worried about right now and go start doing something about it, or convince myself to go to sleep and start tomorrow and actually do that.
Like I said I'm not diagnosing anyone because I hate the trap of just recognizing everything only through the lens of your own conditions thing, but if a LOT of this resonates with you, maybe follow up with a doctor if a bunch of other things do too.
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