Mortality discussion (I'm not emo I swear)

[Fennis]

So I was just reading the nostalgia thread and it made me think about how little time we really have to experience the world. This thread isn't like a LOL POST YER BUCKET LIST MEGATHREAD LOL DETH or anything but just share your thoughts about your own mortality and maybe we can help each other.

A couple of months ago I had the big old epiphany about death, how it's totally inevitable and that there will be a time in the not too distant future that I won't get to appreciate waking up. I mean I still have a bunch of time left on the planet because I'm only 18 but I think I am going through a quarter life crCIA type thing. I did well in high school and I'm doing well in college, and if things turn out right for me I should have a great job and great life.

But realizing I will become nothing again when I die? It's just sort of like, why even? I realize I have been given a lot of privileges and opportunities that most people won't get and I am going to take life by the horns and live it to its fullest (I hope) but I just can't shake this feeling that... it's kind of like people who mix all their food together instead of eating it separately. It's all going to the same place so why bother. Even if I have a great life I am going to die, so why bother?

I'm not suicidal and I don't constantly think about dying, but it does flit by in my mind at least a couple times a day. I have so much time left but I just worry that maybe these past 18 years I missed something. Idk. And if I can upload my brain to a computer before I die I'm totally gonna do it because then when my great great great grandkids try to delete me I can hack into their phones and light their shoes on fire or something.

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[Tokerovin]

I think the universe will take you down the path you belong on and there's nothing wrong with dying because you are still part of energy forever. Energy is never created nor destroyed. It's just changed.

[Naked Human]

You're not dead.

Enjoy life while you can ;)

Sure were all gonna die one day. But that doesnt mean we should all be glum and dull, theres much more in life than thinking about dying!

[TrollBoat]

but was if life was not kil?

[Naked Human]

but was if life was not kil?

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[TrollBoat]

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sp00k

[Maxwell.]

I don't understand why I, or any other creature, can be possible.

When I think about it, the entire universe is all atoms which have no set path or direction and its just energy interacting with other energy to do something. We were part of that, cells were made from atoms as a mistake of them interacting, cells only do stuff because of atoms interacting. It makes me think we were all just an accident or that maybe this was set out, as in we can't control how we think and choosing to do it was just meant to be done.

Then there's OP's matter, I'm going to die so what's the point in getting a job or future? How largely will I contribute to humanity and what if I don't get to do it? I'm at school for 1/4 of my life, and it just seems like as I get older time passes more quickly. If I relived my school life 4 times I'd be dead, and it doesn't feel that long.

[Naked Human]

sp00k

omg that video lol

[Count]

I think this is one of those cases where religion helps me.
I hate to bring it up, but the promise of something after death, whether its true or not, really keeps me going personally. And if that doesn't work out for me, I always think about how if everyone just didn't do anything cause they knew they would die, the world would be a really stuffty place. So, by doing your part by living, going to school, getting a job, etc. you are doing your part in making the world what it is. Just my opinion on the matter.

[TrollBoat]

I think this is one of those cases where religion helps me.
I hate to bring it up, but the promise of something after death, whether its true or not, really keeps me going personally. And if that doesn't work out for me, I always think about how if everyone just didn't do anything cause they knew they would die, the world would be a really stuffty place. So, by doing your part by living, going to school, getting a job, etc. you are doing your part in making the world what it is. Just my opinion on the matter.

[Ceist]

sucks for you mortals. i can only die if i will it!

from a certain perspective, life is just the universe experiencing itself.

I had a extremely deep discussion with Zealot about this kind of topic.

[Naked Human]

I think this is one of those cases where religion helps me.
I hate to bring it up, but the promise of something after death, whether its true or not, really keeps me going personally. And if that doesn't work out for me, I always think about how if everyone just didn't do anything cause they knew they would die, the world would be a really stuffty place. So, by doing your part by living, going to school, getting a job, etc. you are doing your part in making the world what it is. Just my opinion on the matter.

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[Doughboy]

life is not about getting to the end

[TrollBoat]

sucks for you mortals. i can only die if i will it!

from a certain perspective, life is just the universe experiencing itself.

I had a extremely deep discussion with Zealot about this kind of topic

this is where you went wrong

[dudeman162]

the promise of something after death, whether its true or not, really keeps me going personally.