I don't.I take a lot of comfort in the thought
Quote from: Elegiac on November 26, 2015, 01:07:05 PMQuote from: Jim on November 26, 2015, 02:02:57 AMI fear it less and less as time goes on.I figure if I'm right, I'll get to have a killer afterlife and spend it with the people I love, doing the things that I love and ALWAYS being happy.If I'm wrong, the worst that could happen is that Christians/Jews/Catholics/Hindus/Mudslimes/Whatever were right and I will go to Hell for not obeying every single trivial rule in the book. I don't see that as likely, so it doesn't bother me.The middle ground is that we are both wrong and nothing happens. My brain will just shut off and I will no longer experience sorrow, joy, or anything, so it's not like I can complain.When you look at it that way it becomes much less scary.I'm gonna suggest that calling people 'mudslimes' as a racial slur is probably hell-worthy. Probably, but all organized religions disgust me, I just don't have funny names for the rest of them.
Quote from: Jim on November 26, 2015, 02:02:57 AMI fear it less and less as time goes on.I figure if I'm right, I'll get to have a killer afterlife and spend it with the people I love, doing the things that I love and ALWAYS being happy.If I'm wrong, the worst that could happen is that Christians/Jews/Catholics/Hindus/Mudslimes/Whatever were right and I will go to Hell for not obeying every single trivial rule in the book. I don't see that as likely, so it doesn't bother me.The middle ground is that we are both wrong and nothing happens. My brain will just shut off and I will no longer experience sorrow, joy, or anything, so it's not like I can complain.When you look at it that way it becomes much less scary.I'm gonna suggest that calling people 'mudslimes' as a racial slur is probably hell-worthy.
I fear it less and less as time goes on.I figure if I'm right, I'll get to have a killer afterlife and spend it with the people I love, doing the things that I love and ALWAYS being happy.If I'm wrong, the worst that could happen is that Christians/Jews/Catholics/Hindus/Mudslimes/Whatever were right and I will go to Hell for not obeying every single trivial rule in the book. I don't see that as likely, so it doesn't bother me.The middle ground is that we are both wrong and nothing happens. My brain will just shut off and I will no longer experience sorrow, joy, or anything, so it's not like I can complain.When you look at it that way it becomes much less scary.
the one true God is Doctor Doom and we should all be worshiping him.
Quote from: Elegiac on November 26, 2015, 01:44:38 PMQuote from: Jim on November 26, 2015, 01:41:10 PMQuote from: Elegiac on November 26, 2015, 01:07:05 PMQuote from: Jim on November 26, 2015, 02:02:57 AMI fear it less and less as time goes on.I figure if I'm right, I'll get to have a killer afterlife and spend it with the people I love, doing the things that I love and ALWAYS being happy.If I'm wrong, the worst that could happen is that Christians/Jews/Catholics/Hindus/Mudslimes/Whatever were right and I will go to Hell for not obeying every single trivial rule in the book. I don't see that as likely, so it doesn't bother me.The middle ground is that we are both wrong and nothing happens. My brain will just shut off and I will no longer experience sorrow, joy, or anything, so it's not like I can complain.When you look at it that way it becomes much less scary.I'm gonna suggest that calling people 'mudslimes' as a racial slur is probably hell-worthy. Probably, but all organized religions disgust me, I just don't have funny names for the rest of them.Hmm. As long as it's more about religion than race, I guess.I despise all cultures barring of a few, so I suppose you could say I am racist because of that but I don't hate individuals for their culture, just their cultures themselves because they disgust me.
Quote from: Jim on November 26, 2015, 01:41:10 PMQuote from: Elegiac on November 26, 2015, 01:07:05 PMQuote from: Jim on November 26, 2015, 02:02:57 AMI fear it less and less as time goes on.I figure if I'm right, I'll get to have a killer afterlife and spend it with the people I love, doing the things that I love and ALWAYS being happy.If I'm wrong, the worst that could happen is that Christians/Jews/Catholics/Hindus/Mudslimes/Whatever were right and I will go to Hell for not obeying every single trivial rule in the book. I don't see that as likely, so it doesn't bother me.The middle ground is that we are both wrong and nothing happens. My brain will just shut off and I will no longer experience sorrow, joy, or anything, so it's not like I can complain.When you look at it that way it becomes much less scary.I'm gonna suggest that calling people 'mudslimes' as a racial slur is probably hell-worthy. Probably, but all organized religions disgust me, I just don't have funny names for the rest of them.Hmm. As long as it's more about religion than race, I guess.
I fear death. I fear death because for all I know it is the end of my existence and seeing as my existence is all I have it's a pretty important thing to lose. Also I fear what will happen with my family and the people I care about if I were to pass. However I'm at peace with what happens after death personally, after death my body will be returned to where it came and will become one with the Universe. There's some kind of peace in that for me.
I don't fear death, I fear dying.
Well unlike all the edgy people in this thread, yes, I do fear death. Everybody does. Your instinct is to fear it. You can override that if you feel you have something to do which you could sided more important than your own life, but other than that death is scary. Unless you're a retard and believe in an afterlife.
ITT: people acting hard by pretending they don't fear deathYou don't really have a choice in the matter; death is scary to everyone. The notion that I'll just stop existing is terrifying, not to mention the pain of dying by crime, an accident, or disease.
getting flustered over someone not being as scared as you are seems a little bit silly, doesn't it
Am I flustered? Like I said, you don't have a choice in he matter. Humans are evolutionarily hardwired to fear dying. You can feel comfort now by seeing it as an end to the stresses of life, but you can't shut out the physiological response of it.
Quote from: Christmas dinne is Murder on November 27, 2015, 08:44:07 PMAm I flustered? Like I said, you don't have a choice in he matter. Humans are evolutionarily hardwired to fear dying. You can feel comfort now by seeing it as an end to the stresses of life, but you can't shut out the physiological response of it.I don't consider my hardwiring a part of me. I'm "hardwired" to like sex, but do I actually like sex? No.inb4butyou'reavirgin