• 𝕛𝕨𝕞-𝕕𝕖𝕧@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    i’ve never understood the western obsession with equating the pursuit for immortality with vanity. you tell me you hear you’re gonna die one day, lights out and that’s it no more you forever, and you don’t even have just a little thought in the back of your mind, constantly begging a solution to the inevitable?

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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      7 hours ago

      Nope.

      Why beg for something that is impossible and likely to add to my pain later in life? I see no reason to hold onto that dream or to beg for it.

      I don’t understand what is worth sticking around indefinitely for either when it’s the fact that the present is slipping by so quickly for so many. You don’t get it back for living longer.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
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      8 hours ago

      I have the opposite little thought in the back of my mind. Knowing that my life will end one day gives me the energy to keep going. If I had to live forever, I would need a few 100 year naps or I’d go insane.

      Like if I die and “wake up” in the afterlife and I gotta keep existing. Fuck that. Send my energy back to the source and let it just vibrate.