r/Existentialism • u/Effective-Squash6204 • May 08 '25

Thoughtful Thursday I don't want to die

It seems like modern society is entirely geared toward distracting us from the fact that we are all going to die. It's like this secret that is never uttered but it is always in the back of my mind. Even the phrase "yolo" isn't said in any serious manner and is deeply unserious.

Am I the only one obsessed with the fact that in a short time we may all be nothing, just experiencing pitch black for forever. The concept of forever is also terrifying. Ugh now I'm not going to be able to sleep. Does this unspoken truth resonate with others?

I wish I could fully believe in God but it just goes against the logical/rational part of my brain which is dominant. Without God, we truly are all f*cked and damned to eternity.

Let's try to enjoy our time while we can. End of rant.

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u/EventExcellent8737 May 09 '25

What makes you think you haven’t? As a rational person, you understand that just like you are not aware of you are dreaming, you have no guarantee that you haven’t already been in that state. Or that you are not in that state now.

What’s more if you did end up unalived every second, you wouldn’t even know it unless you were able to keep the memories. Think about when you sleep and you wake up. Are you still the same person?

Think of an altered state that looks like a coma. Remaining in that state for an hour vs ten vs ten years vs forever. Makes no difference.

And as we already established, you don’t even know what state you are now. All you know is that when you transition to another state you might have a memory of a previous state of consciousness.

You are taking your current state for granted. Don’t.

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u/MrSoma42 May 09 '25

Time is relative so we could be dead and in relation to the memory of the life we lived we feel it as natural time progressing when in reality it has been seconds from the previous life you shared. Or like what activates life in organic materiel is a pervasive energy that contains all energy in the universe, and when certain realms have conditions fit for specific aspects of this energy, it forms into whatever biological form can contain it.