"I've come to see the lack of an afterlife as comforting and you should too!">Doesn't actually describe a comforting scenario, willingly ignoring the multiple issues that arise>Also [pseudoscientific babble about consciousness being NOTHING MORE than atoms dancing around]>Also it is BIOLOGICALLY proven nothing happens, you just die!>Why do you think you're entitled to something?I thought people posted these things because they were venting, but the way they get butthurt when questioned about their pseudoscience or shallow existentialism, and the confidence they speak of these things too, it makes me wonder if it's a desire to have others feeling the same pain as them, or if it's a search for validation.
No afterlife make more sense, where was you before you are born? Also is actually more fair too. Does animals also have afterlife? As well retards too?
>>42335961I think the question hinges on such a fundamental existentialism that it's mostly unproductive to even appeal to logic. You could argue it's the most logical just as much as I could argue there are mechanisms beyond our understanding, much like Popperian scientific induction considers. The same thought process applies for concepts like fairness or universality, it's possible to play around with ideas but each degree dives deeper and deeper into pure speculation and/or faith. What I don't really get is the end goal: hardly anyone talks online to try to convince others, so is it mostly trying to alleviate some frustration? I assume not all circumstances allow for someone with such (dis)beliefs to express themselves accordingly.
>>42335916some of us have been so tortured and unhappy that ceasing to exist is the only thing we want from an "afterlife".
The afterlife is real and is something we will get to experience one way or another. No sudden cessation of consciousness despite what atheists will say. But normal fags will disagree.
>>42335984Why you think that there is a afterlife? I am not asking for a proof but why you think that should be more after this life? Would you rather have guarantee no afterlife or something but you wouldn`t know what?
>>42335987I see. All in all, I'm not too fond of people imposing their beliefs without much thought into how much they are invalidating others' experiences, your suffering included. I like to think there's a sandbox which allows us to see the universe in its full glory. Being able to interact with crazy objects that exist out there, or even doing impossible stuff like being on the surface of a neutron star or seeing the myriad of night skies that must exist out there: seeing galaxies close-by and from atop, or seeing a black hole spinning in the distance much like our Moon. It sounds like a good way of relaxing, despite all the rest, too.
>>42335961>Does animals also have afterlife?My pet has been with me in lucid dreams for two decades, and has recently gone into a body to become my child.
>>42336027Honestly, it's not a question I've had to answer before in such a straightforward manner. When dealing with such existential doubts, we can often take the stance of being the most cautious as we can be, and for many that would include hoping for nothing instead of some unknown element. I like to see life not as the control of knowing or the fear of the absolute worst, otherwise I'd shit myself constantly thinking about everything I will never understand or all the meteorites that could conveniently fall over my house. Yeah, there could be something bad after this life, but it's not like thinking about that possibility will change anything, nor will it make me suffer any less. As for the "why something instead of nothing", I might as well ask the inverse. We're here already, so there's that. Although I suspect my answer could be seen as more pragmatic, you tell.
>>42336029I thought I wanted to die too, until I realized that what I truly wanted was to live. I did not seek to not exist anymore, I sought to exist in a world that didn't want to torture me. The world gives you an ultimatum between permanent oblivion and meek obedience to itself which it insists on, and many do not see a third option, or buyers remorse takes them. There IS a third option though. This is a great dream that you have, and I hope you see it through; it's not their dream though.
>>42335916I don't give a fuck what happens when I die. I'd much rather enjoy the time I spend alive than obsess, to the point of madness, on something 'more than'.
>>42335916Its a comfort. Some like the idea of not needing to exist, some just like not needing to worry about it. It also allows more justification for actions here because YOLO and all the like. A lot of the responses defending no after life are really just done as a defense mechanism so they don't have to go back to that unsafe feeling of something greater looming or the threat of their being more existence. When you consider how many people on this board go on and on about horrible reincarnation loops and demons and demiurges its no wonder people would prefer nothingness compared to existence. They've just victims of doomposting and demoralization.
>>42336166>>42336110I think it's interesting that there seems to be a degree of external social forces that apply such a huge pressure over us, whether it's from the paths the world imposes on us or the density of dumb shit we're exposed to on the internet. This may make us feel lonely in our own paths, but it's also a process of learning when to recognize such forces and to internally reduce their noise. That and, at least for the path we're heading, avoiding making too many assumptions. It's a sure way of getting desperate and trying to control the uncontrollable.
it's not even an "afterlife"the term implies that we're alivewe're notwe're in a state of death right now and what comes after is just life
>>4233600557% of people believe in the afterlife. Another 15% is unsure.What normal means is average behavior. So by that, not believing in the afterlife is quite literally abnormal.
