I just wish I could see how life goes on without me. How our world changes in the future beyond my limited time on this planet.
I think about people who lived hundreds of years ago. How they couldn't even imagine the scientific and technological advancements that we have. And then I think about hundreds of years into the future. What changes will be so extreme and advanced that I can't even imagine it today?
I wish there was some way for me to glimpse into that future and see where society is heading. Will we expand out to the stars? Will we be extinct long before we leave this planet? What's the ultimate future for humanity? These are questions I want to know, but will never get a chance to find out, unless everyone but me dies out in the next 30-40 years. And I highly doubt that's gonna happen.
Tried to figure out how to post this comment a couple times without it sounding like proselyting my own view point. Can't manage it. So I'll just add this here: that's not what I'm doing! I'm not attempting to convince anyone of anything. Lol.
I'm a nondualist. Panentheism, to be more specific. I believe that existence is God's way of experiencing. In other words, we are not just ourselves, and not just reincarnated as the next thing down the line, or spending eternity in heaven. But that every creature, every rock, every thing that has ever or will ever exist is you. You are Ghandi, and you're also your own mother. You're hitler, and you're Stalin. You are God. And in between, after, and before, when you're in that state of being without limitations, without boundaries and illusions of duality and separateness, you are fully aware of every thing you have been and will be. You understand all.
It brings me comfort. It has allowed me to come to peace with the fact that I will die some day. It hasn't given me peace for the people I have lost, but I try to remember them as the forms of God I love best, and the forms of God that knew me best. One day I will be gone, and I will dissolve back into the divine, and I won't be so sad about losing those forms and those people, because I will be with them, as them, and know them better than I could ever have in this form.
As a little aside, another way I like to look at this is through a Betty White quote. She once asked her mother what happens after we die, and her mother told her it was a secret. So whenever Betty lost someone she would say to herself "they learned the secret today"
The secret is that you get to learn everything, at least as far as I believe.
Almost the same except we have so many things wrong PlanetSide that it makes the stars almost irrelevant.
People needlessly suffer and die painfully simply because VERY few of us want control and many more keep repeating the lies that those few have created to control us.
Watching it play out ad naseum once you're aware of the farce makes it depressing to watch and it makes you realize how easy it is to control human behavior to the point where repeated genocides are ignored enough to allow them to happen.
I want to know if there will ever be a time when manufactured narratives & consent doesn't control the lives of humanity and it might make the nothingness of death a little bit easier to stomach knowing that it'll come to pass.
[...] we have so many things wrong PlanetSide that it makes the stars almost irrelevant.
Yeah, this has been my fear lately. As a kid in the '80s/'90s, I had high hopes for humanity. I loved space travel stories; read so many science fiction books, watched Star Trek/Star Wars, loved space films of all genres...
But lately, I'll be happy if we ever make it to Mars. The one person who had a dedicated mission to get a man on Mars turned out to be a self-destructing billionaire sociopath who seems to have abandoned that dream for political meddling aspirations instead.
If we can get capitalism out of the way, humanity might have a chance at bouncing back. But as long as a few powerful elites maintain control over society, our hopes and dreams will forever be redirected toward financial gains until the collapse of society.
On the plus side, even Rome, the most stable and advanced civilization outside of our own, eventually collapsed. Humanity survived and eventually went on to thrive once again, doing even better this time. By the historical timeline of the birth and death of civilizations, America is long overdue for a collapse. Maybe we're about to see a global change that will reset our predicament and give us another chance to succeed. If we can learn from our past.
our oligarchy now has control over a majority of this planet compared to control roman control over the mediterranean and the decline will likewise be proportionately slow and destructive as rome's was.
i suspect that the next reset is going to involve whole new climate changed induced civilizations from the fallout and that's presuming that humanity can survive another population bottleneck.
and all simply because we keep repeating the oligarchy's talking points to each other like they're unassailable logic.
OMG! So many things.
I'd probably spend months looking through the stats of my life alone.
But first, dinosaurs!
What did they actually look like?
How did they act?
What actually killed them?
I want to know if the Gnostics were right and this really is a prison planet for consciousnesses. The next thing I want to know is how to escape from the prison.
I want to know what the weirdest thing that has or will ever happen in the universe. Not necesarily what caused it, but a thorough understanding of what it was and why it was weird.
That I was able to retaliate against the billionaire class that made my people suffer. Can I throw rubbish at them while their spirits are chained in the bad place?
Unredacted epstein files. And throw in jfk while your at it. Oh and maybe I guess also if conformal cyclic cosmology is legit and the answer to the grand unification of einstenien relativity and quantum mechanics, but mostly the first 2.
I used to wonder about how my family and friends would react and what they'd do If I just stopped existing for one reason or another.
It's a pretty "normal" thought to have when you're depressed I think, and it's what sends you further down the spiral. But yeah, even as someone who wants to believe in an afterlife, I wouldn't want to know anything about what I left behind.
58 Comments
Stuart_Munto@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 257d
Nothing. I’m dead.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 257d
Finally... Phew!
cobysev@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 257d
I just wish I could see how life goes on without me. How our world changes in the future beyond my limited time on this planet.
I think about people who lived hundreds of years ago. How they couldn't even imagine the scientific and technological advancements that we have. And then I think about hundreds of years into the future. What changes will be so extreme and advanced that I can't even imagine it today?
I wish there was some way for me to glimpse into that future and see where society is heading. Will we expand out to the stars? Will we be extinct long before we leave this planet? What's the ultimate future for humanity? These are questions I want to know, but will never get a chance to find out, unless everyone but me dies out in the next 30-40 years. And I highly doubt that's gonna happen.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 257d
Tried to figure out how to post this comment a couple times without it sounding like proselyting my own view point. Can't manage it. So I'll just add this here: that's not what I'm doing! I'm not attempting to convince anyone of anything. Lol.
I'm a nondualist. Panentheism, to be more specific. I believe that existence is God's way of experiencing. In other words, we are not just ourselves, and not just reincarnated as the next thing down the line, or spending eternity in heaven. But that every creature, every rock, every thing that has ever or will ever exist is you. You are Ghandi, and you're also your own mother. You're hitler, and you're Stalin. You are God. And in between, after, and before, when you're in that state of being without limitations, without boundaries and illusions of duality and separateness, you are fully aware of every thing you have been and will be. You understand all.
It brings me comfort. It has allowed me to come to peace with the fact that I will die some day. It hasn't given me peace for the people I have lost, but I try to remember them as the forms of God I love best, and the forms of God that knew me best. One day I will be gone, and I will dissolve back into the divine, and I won't be so sad about losing those forms and those people, because I will be with them, as them, and know them better than I could ever have in this form.
As a little aside, another way I like to look at this is through a Betty White quote. She once asked her mother what happens after we die, and her mother told her it was a secret. So whenever Betty lost someone she would say to herself "they learned the secret today"
The secret is that you get to learn everything, at least as far as I believe.
West_of_West@piefed.social · 5 pts · 257d
When you lost Age of Empires and the fog of war disappeared and you could see everything for the rest fo the game. That's the goal.
mp3@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 257d
I don't want just to see the future, but the past as well. Would be nice to witness some unadulterated historical moments.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 256d
Almost the same except we have so many things wrong PlanetSide that it makes the stars almost irrelevant.
People needlessly suffer and die painfully simply because VERY few of us want control and many more keep repeating the lies that those few have created to control us.
Watching it play out ad naseum once you're aware of the farce makes it depressing to watch and it makes you realize how easy it is to control human behavior to the point where repeated genocides are ignored enough to allow them to happen.
I want to know if there will ever be a time when manufactured narratives & consent doesn't control the lives of humanity and it might make the nothingness of death a little bit easier to stomach knowing that it'll come to pass.
cobysev@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
Yeah, this has been my fear lately. As a kid in the '80s/'90s, I had high hopes for humanity. I loved space travel stories; read so many science fiction books, watched Star Trek/Star Wars, loved space films of all genres...
But lately, I'll be happy if we ever make it to Mars. The one person who had a dedicated mission to get a man on Mars turned out to be a self-destructing billionaire sociopath who seems to have abandoned that dream for political meddling aspirations instead.
If we can get capitalism out of the way, humanity might have a chance at bouncing back. But as long as a few powerful elites maintain control over society, our hopes and dreams will forever be redirected toward financial gains until the collapse of society.
On the plus side, even Rome, the most stable and advanced civilization outside of our own, eventually collapsed. Humanity survived and eventually went on to thrive once again, doing even better this time. By the historical timeline of the birth and death of civilizations, America is long overdue for a collapse. Maybe we're about to see a global change that will reset our predicament and give us another chance to succeed. If we can learn from our past.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 253d
our oligarchy now has control over a majority of this planet compared to control roman control over the mediterranean and the decline will likewise be proportionately slow and destructive as rome's was.
i suspect that the next reset is going to involve whole new climate changed induced civilizations from the fallout and that's presuming that humanity can survive another population bottleneck.
and all simply because we keep repeating the oligarchy's talking points to each other like they're unassailable logic.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 28 pts · 257d
I just want to know that my wife is safe. That's the only thing that would keep me here.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 257d
My first instinct is to make a crude joke about your wife.
But that's actually really sweet!
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 256d
I too, choose this guys wife.
murmelade@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 256d
Comprehensive stats for my run.
crazyminner@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 257d
There is no "know" after you die. Best to know before you die. After there is nothing.
Sergio@piefed.social · 0 pts · 257d
Sounds like you're ready to listen to The Naught.
PiecePractical@midwest.social · 16 pts · 257d
OMG! So many things. I'd probably spend months looking through the stats of my life alone. But first, dinosaurs! What did they actually look like? How did they act? What actually killed them?
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 257d
Why am I still here?
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 257d
How many gallons I came
everett@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 257d
At the time of death, or, uh, cumulatively?
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 257d
A little from column A little from column b
NightFantom@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 257d
So that's why it's called cumsum?
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 257d
What was the purpose of all these shenanigans?
Antagnostic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 256d
To have them.
theneverfox@pawb.social · 9 pts · 257d
Why I signed up to go through this hellscape
DomeGuy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 257d
Sex in heaven is really good, but gets boring after awhile.
Sergio@piefed.social · 8 pts · 257d
"The dead know only one thing: it's better to be alive." -Full Metal Jacket
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 256d
Was HL3 good?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 256d
The exact weight of all my poops combined. I feel like I had a productive life.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
And to have it be presented to you all in one big heaping steaming fragrant pile?
andallthat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 256d
If I know anything at all after I'm dead, I will already have the answer to the biggest question from all major religions
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 257d
How to live forever. Oh wait...
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 256d
wtf was that all about?
flamiera@kbin.melroy.org · 5 pts · 256d
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 257d
Is my partner okay and do my comrades succeed
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 257d
gray@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 257d
Why do we have consciousness?
JustVik@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 256d
I just humbly want to know who would have thought that creating a universe with so many terrible things was a good idea?
MelonYellow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 257d
Well I’d definitely want to know how the universe was formed.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 257d
MercuryGenisus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 256d
That I mattered.
frankenswine@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 256d
my score and current rank
Inkstainthebat@pawb.social · 3 pts · 256d
If I get infinite attempts cus I feel like if I don't go for another run I'm gonna get bored at some point
TechnoCat@piefed.social · 3 pts · 256d
I'd want to know future generations know I'm sorry for the planet we left them.
moretruth@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 256d
I want to know if the Gnostics were right and this really is a prison planet for consciousnesses. The next thing I want to know is how to escape from the prison.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 257d
I want to know what the weirdest thing that has or will ever happen in the universe. Not necesarily what caused it, but a thorough understanding of what it was and why it was weird.
dumbass@piefed.social · 3 pts · 257d
Why.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 256d
Wait, I'm conscious enough to have questions? So, now what?
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 256d
That I was able to retaliate against the billionaire class that made my people suffer. Can I throw rubbish at them while their spirits are chained in the bad place?
TevTra@lemmy.tevtra.com · 2 pts · 256d
First thing first: Where are all my cats that already went ahead of me. We've got lots of things to catch up on.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
We can find lost things after we die? I wanna be reunited with all the ponytail holders-rubberbands-hair-baubles I've lost over the years.
craigers@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
Unredacted epstein files. And throw in jfk while your at it. Oh and maybe I guess also if conformal cyclic cosmology is legit and the answer to the grand unification of einstenien relativity and quantum mechanics, but mostly the first 2.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
And Jimmy Hoffa mysteries solved too.
rudra_sanatana@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 257d
How not to be born again, how not to exist. Be free of the worldly miseries.
Advaita Vedanta courtesy
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 257d
"Is there anything I could I do for You?"
chunes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 257d
How to destroy this universe as well as anyone who had a hand in its creation.
daannii@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 257d
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move"
-Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, Douglas Adams
Matriks404@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
What do you want to eat after universe ends?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 256d
Milliways?
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 256d
Nothing. I would prefer to know before I die. When I actually exist.
cerafredo@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 235d
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 257d
FireWire400@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 256d
I used to wonder about how my family and friends would react and what they'd do If I just stopped existing for one reason or another.
It's a pretty "normal" thought to have when you're depressed I think, and it's what sends you further down the spiral. But yeah, even as someone who wants to believe in an afterlife, I wouldn't want to know anything about what I left behind.