Fundamentalists/Atheists: Thoughts on Death

[sylas]

Which as a rationale for some to have children. A form of immortality.

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying."

Woody Allen​

For myself... I know I have a finite duration; like pretty much everything else. This doesn't bother me. I know it doesn't bother me because about ten years ago I was given about six months to live -- a preliminary tentative diagnosis which turned out to be incorrect. I did not freak out at the time and I don't expect to freak out if I get a more reliable early indicator of time of death either. I enjoy living and want to keep doing it; but I can't really imagine it going on forever. I think that really would make things in the here and now pointless.

I really don't get the people who say that nothing matters if you are going to die eventually. I consider it to be just the reverse.

Cheers -- sylas

 

[Marco12]

Maybe we evolved sleep to prepare us better for death. DMT anyone?

I have done some research on DMT, and let me tell you this chemical is fascinating. I understand that when we die, our brain is flooded by DMT and also when we sleep the brain releases DMT. I read a theory that maybe DMT is a connection of different dimensions for example when we dream, we might be actually living in different dimensions and when we die, perhaps we go to another dimension/dream forever or until we die again.

I didnt mean to go off-topic or propose anything without much evidence, but when I read this theory I found it very interesting...

 

[Math Is Hard]

I read a theory that maybe DMT is a connection of different dimensions for example when we dream, we might be actually living in different dimensions and when we die, perhaps we go to another dimension/dream forever or until we die again.

I didnt mean to go off-topic or propose anything without much evidence, but when I read this theory I found it very interesting...

I don't think we want to go in this direction. This is far too vague and speculative, even for the Philosophy forum.