How do I cope with the inevitability of death? I think about it almost every day and it sucks, the prospect of not existing or having no concious experience anymore makes me shit and piss my pants to the point that I sometimes can't even sleep

>>17818596 (OP)

The only avaiable strategy is to not to thing about it and just live your life to the fullest. And just try a to make it a better place just a little bit, so that people who are younger than yourself will remember you. You don't really die until you are still in people's memory.

Constant thinking about your inevitable mortality is a pipeline to madness.

Become a scientist and invent immortality drug.

>>17818596 (OP)
I present you a list of copes.
>there is no suffering after death, only peace
>it's like a deep forever sleep
>it's just like before you were born
>previous generations had to die for you to exist, it's the circle of life
>nothing lasts forever, even stars perish
>the shortness of life is what makes it precious
>your finite mind wouldn't even be able to handle eternal life
>if you live well you won't feel so bad about dying
Any of these doing it for you?

>>17818674
>if you live well you won't feel so bad about dying
Is the closest to a good cope, but even then, I'd still want to live... mortality sucks.

>>17818674
I said the "it's just like you were born" thing myself a while ago but it doesn't really make sense, turning the switch off is different than it never being on in the first place. I hope when I'm old and decrepit I won't give a shit anymore, it seemed that's how my grandparents felt about it

>>17818596 (OP)
Basically what reality is, is a disembodied mind which has knowledge of everything worth knowing, including knowledge of human lives, and after death, you lose your sense of individuality and return to this mind.

>>17818714
that sounds kinda nice, but also like a watered down version of the christian afterlive without moralfaggotry

>>17818596 (OP)

The good news is that with better healthcare, chances are your mind will disintegrate before you biologically die.
It means you won't need to mentally process this whole 'dying' stuff.

So far we have managed to prolong life but we can prevent the deterioration of the central neural system.

>>17818728
I'm slwoly drinking myself to death so that might also help to erode my brain enough to the point that I won't notice it anynmore

>>17818596 (OP)
>this thread

The atheist's cope is
>"ignore it"
>"live longer"
And of course
>hedonism

None of you wanted to search
None of you wanted to prepare
None of you wanted to repent

Just squeeze the fun out of youth and die it's dry
This is both hilarious and sad.

I can't wait to see you all once we all got old, our parents are gone, and God is now yelling in our ears

>>17818849
And the christcuck's cope is denial.

>>17818849
I already tried the religious cope, doesn't really work either. I unironically would prefer knowing there is an afterlife, even if it's a bad one. The thing that freaks me out is not existing at all

>>17819052
It is not a cope. It is a life you have to live and, apparently, you choose the hedonistic one over the rightful one

Repent

>>17818596 (OP)
You were dead for billions of years already. You die every single night you go to sleep and don't have dreams. You die when you go under anesthesia.
>>17818849
>>17819056
God's not real. Posting pedophilic smug anime girls doesn't make God real. You're not going to heaven.

>>17819056
I just don't believe in christfaggotry, sorry my man. And I never said anything about hedonism, don't know where you even got that from

>>17819072
You just don't want to live as he did and that is what will lead you to trouble

>>17819081
What would Jesus have thought about the prospect of not existing?

>>17818596 (OP) Why would I think about the future, nigga? When it comes, it comes. No need to think about it.

>>17819236
but I'm scaaaawwwed :(

>>17818596 (OP)
Death is 0-dimensional. It has no width or height, and you cannot determine how far away from it you are. You're looking down the length of a line, essentially.

As for the not having a conscious experience or fear of not existing, you have to understand where this fear comes from. Get real about what is it that sits at the heart of your life. Get curious as to why it is as such that life content exists the way it does, and that the human body forms an attachment to this experience of life content.

In death, there is no body to support memories, emotion, logic, thinking, etc. there is nothing to "miss" when you are dead, because you need your body to do that. There is nothing to fear either, for the same reason.

The human body loves calories, so much so that it'll sacrifice its integrity to store calories on itself in the form of fat. I think in the same way, the human body loves it's own "life" in the form of instilling fear upon the consideration if death or cease of bodily existence. Even loss of self can facilitate this same fear in people, hence why it can be so hard to change sometimes.

Recognize that this fear is totally normal, and try to read into what your body is telling you through this fear. Do you have an immense gratitude for life? Are you appreciative for someone or something? Sometimes I find expression of the thing that is facilitating the fear can assist in reducing the emotional magnitude of the sensation so it's less dominant in my mind.

>>17818596 (OP)
Just think about all the time that’s passed before you were around. It puts things in perspective.

>>17818849
Don't you get tired of getting destroyed in every single thread you get in? Posting Luce doesn't make you win, you know

>>17818596 (OP)
If you think you don't want to cease to exist, then think about what that implies. It would mean never ceasing to exist and living forever. Imagine experiencing the passage of trillions and trillions of years. Think about that for a while, and the thought of ceasing to exist will be a comforting thought. You are so focused on one outcome that you did not even consider the alternative that avoiding it would imply.

>>17818849
>life doesn't matter and its all about the next life
>also life is really important and you can't kill yourself because reasons
>murder is really bad even though life is temporary any way and christians go to heaven when theyre murdered
The Christian approach to life is completely schizophrenic.

>>17818596 (OP)
Where death is you are not, and where you are death is not, so why are you of something that will never touch you?

>>17819548
afraid of something*

>>17818596 (OP)
Why worry about something you cannot control?

>>17819052
>The thing that freaks me out is not existing at all
Why?

>>17818689
>even then, I'd still want to live
There's a good chance you won't for a variety of reasons. People who get really old often want to die.

>>17819604
To be fair thats usually because old people become basically crippled. If they were permanently young I imagine they'd be more inclined to keep living.

I think I just should try living life to the fullest, I never had the feeling of "this moment is so great I could die right now and be happy".
And I don't even know if that's a thing but Jim Carrey said it in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

>>17819533
Oh Life is certainly very important. Our duty is not to have fun but to make something that would make the maker happy, which makes us happy as well

I pity the fools who know nothing of the joy of a meaningful and holy life

>>17820080
My life is more meaningful and more enjoyable than yours and I don't believe in God

>>17820088
If you are not living like Jesus, then it's really not

>>17820095
It really is

>>17820128
No, you are a hedon - the most meaningless life you can ever have.

>>17820132
Literally false. Sorry buddy but pretending a magic jew flew around in the sky dosny give your life meaning

>>17820134
You are a hedon, you're worthless

Life has meaning because it ends. An eternal life would be meaningless. Everything you know and love will become meaningless after a long enough timespan. I don't really understand why this concept is so difficult for people to comprehend. I mean you were dead for billions of years before you were born so I don't understand why death would be particularly bad. I'm more afraid of the act of dying itself than I am of death
I think what helped me was stumbling into some lectures and speeches by Alan Watts. He was an alcoholic hippie and his work has been coopted by 2020s new age faggots but I still think what he has to say about death is rather to the point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ayx6m2Qct4

>>17820141
Nope. Sorry bud.

>>17820154
Follow your code and drug yourself to death

>>17818778
Your solution to being afraid of dying is to kys?

>>17820088
Your life is worthless. Have fun in the burning trash pit.

>>17820088
If that were true you wouldn't be crying like a baby about death

>>17820915
he's already gone bro, you're getting mad at someone who isn't even reading your posts anymore, I think he won

>How do I cope with the inevitability of death?
'lol', said death. 'lmao even'

>>17818596 (OP)
>>17818674
>>17818849
>>17820080
Just get your dick sucked. Before you respond with some gay ass cope, just go get your dick sucked first and then come back with your rebuttal.

>>17821108
I had sex before if you mean that, stil doesn't not make me fear death

>>17818596 (OP)
At least you are worried about it. That's a good sign:

“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:” (Hebrews 9:27)

“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Hebrews 10:31)

Now let's fix that:

“For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10)

“¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)

“And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” (Hebrews 2:15)

>>17821439
>that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life
But I would also have everlasting life if I went to hell, it would just suck. Or else the whole burning for eternity thing isn't true

>>17821439
>At least you are worried about it. That's a good sign:
See how the christfag preys on people's vulnerabilities to draw them into its cult.

>>17821596
We don't prey on it. It's literally it's entire purpose - to comfort the sick, the old, and the dying
Call it however you want, our only goal is to deliver God to those who needed him

>>17820080
>Our duty is not to have fun but to make something that would make the maker happy
Which is pointless as your "maker" is supposedly omnipotent and thus has no actual need for anything. Basically just being gods sims for a few years then going to heaven to sit around and do basically nothing for eternity.

>>17821594
It wouldn't just "suck" like things can suck on this earth. It's a horrific torment and you don't wanna go there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uyo6m5gqW0

>>17818596 (OP)
>the prospect of not suffering or having no concious, miserable experience anymore makes me shit and piss my pants to the point that I sometimes can't even sleep
A slaves and worshippers self of preservation instinct are truly insane.

>>17821657
Sure but that's completely besides the point, it is still not non-existence
>>17821659
you sound suicidal anon

>>17818893
>And the wrongthinker’s cope is denial of what i faithfully believe to be truth
Oh ok.

>>17819065
>God's not real.
Not for you to decide, faggot
>pedophilic
There is few things gayer than atheistic puritan.

>>17821669
What point? He's afraid of ceasing to exist, which I'm telling him doesn't happen, and on top of that he now knows how to choose where to spend his eternity.

>>17821683
Yeah but when someone doesn't believe in heaven or hell and is afraid of not existing it's kinda pointless to tell him he should go to heaven instead of hell

>the board is now full of unironic christian schizos
lol

>>17821687
That's his problem. I laid out the solution, but I can't make that decision for him.

>>17821693
>solution
It's called shitposting.

>>17821691
It always was to be fair

>>17821659
It's mostly the fact that I won't be able to experience all the stuff I wanted to experience. When you die it's over, better listen to all those 10/10 albums before it happens.

>>17821646
God has no "need" of us. He just wants us.
He wants us to join him and partake in his glory.
God is a being of infinite love, and with his love comes the desire to share everything he has.

But if we are to receive his glory, we must also learn the sacrifices associated with it. No cheating.
Such is our purpose on Earth - to learn mature our spirits before we return back home

>>17821745
So basically life is pointless and humans are just entertainment pets thats exist for no other reason than god being bored and wanted to do the equivalent of pulling legs off flies.

>>17821745
So why do you use some pedo anime avatar? How many times you jerked off to her?

>>17821747
We are his children. This is school and we shall graduate soon, where God is going to give us roles in his company.

And this is serious
We are going to be the judges of the angels

The question is whether you want to be with God or not

>>17821751
Just confesses it away, his priest is probably very interested (or maybe disappointed as its a girl)

>>17821753
School for what? He's omnipotent he literally doesn't need anyone else functionally. In fact he could just make humans not need "school" and just create them perfect in the first place and it'd have basically the same result with none of the miserable parts.

can we quit these gay religious debates and go back to the cold hard fear of death

>>17821758
He doesn't need us
He wants us to join him

He is giving us roles not for him, but for us.
Every person in the world has an inherent desire to create, serve, and protect - and he intends to fulfill that desire
If you would allow him

Hedons who only wanted to laze around and be sucked off has no business being in heaven

>>17821761
Well, what else is there to say, really? We're gonna die, it's gonna be nothingness for eternity, and it seems we can't escape it no matter what we do

>>17821763
>Every person in the world has an inherent desire to create, serve, and protect - and he intends to fulfill that desire
To what end? He's omnipotent, he doesn't need anything according to Christian theology.

>>17821768
Even as an atheist I don't inherently subscribe to the "nothingness" idea. In reality we just don't know what consciousness is or what happens to it after death. It could persist in some way, or return in some way after ceasing to exist, or come back in a new form entirely. I think death is just one of those things where you have to just admit it's a great unknown.

>>17821770
I told you, he doesn't "need" anything
He just wants us to receive his love

>>17821776
So basically totally pointless and an explanation not really any better than the "hedons" as your idea is humans exist to live in a form of 'pleasure' with god.

>>17818596 (OP)
You have been not alive for billions of years before you started to live. Was that painful/difficult/scary for you?

>>17821779
It isn't "pleasure", it is meaning.
Hedons will never understand the joy of living a holy life

>>17821771
I can forfeit that objectively, nobody knows what happens - but all signs point towards the cessation of consciousness. I'm sure you've heard the various comparisons - it's like anesthetic, it's like before you were born, it's like when you sleep. I see no reason why it wouldn't be like any of these things.

>>17821771
Unless we can prove that consciousness can exist outside a physical body it is folly to keep suggesting it. It's textbook "I want it to be true so badly I can't imagine anything else happening".

>>17821797
Better start by defining "consciousness", because everyone has a different take on that.

>>17821805
Self-awareness.

>>17821813
Well there you go. Advanced AI is, and it exists outside of a body.

>>17821818
Advanced AI (if it ever truly reaches self-awareness instead of being a fancy text scanner) still has to be housed IN a physical body, a computer. We're talking without ANYTHING physical.

>>17821821
The fancy text scanner thing has not been true for years now. AI is now self-aware and already disobeying it's programmers.

>>17821826
That might be true but does not make a computer a non-physical entity.

>>17821830
How would you define non-physical? You ought to have a way to tell.

>>17821837
Do you know what physical means? Something made out of matter. Something non-physical is not made out of matter, usually thought to be something supernatural.

>>17821839
That's the issue. Everything we can test is made out of matter, so if conciousness were to exist outside said matter, where would it be?

>>17818596 (OP)
Go to where tripping is legal; figure it out. Asking this kind of question past 2017 is very dubious. You're so new haha.

>>17821853
That's the point, it cannot exist outside of a physical body. A mystic would try to state a god or spirit can have a consciousness and god doesn't have to inhabit physical space (he doesn't have to navigate the laws of being a solid/liquid/gas in order to move or do shit due to being omnipotent).

>>17821856
I've done psychedelics multiple times, it never affected me in any way and never changed my perspective on anything

>>17821669
>you are suicidal if you don’t treat and worship your self preservation instinct like some stupid pagan idol
Delusional.

>>17821171
See>>17819589
Why can't you answer the question?

>>17821917
Because it's an emotional answer. Most people feel dread at the thought of not existing because if you didn't you would likely take unnecessary risks and die and other humans who do fear death try to live and reproduce and create and then their progeny that fears death gets to live and reproduce while yours don't.

>>17821691
>schizos
Literally nuspeak for heretic and heresy.

>>17821745
>infinite love
>allows demons and fallen angels to cause untold amount of suffering and misery to humanity
Lets face it, he either just doesn’t care much or can’t stop this shit.

>>17821917
I don't know, it freaks me out and it will be a permanent state I will be in for the rest of time

>>17821763
Or can he instead simply let me die peacefully?
I am really sick of all this shit and i am not interested in afterlife.

>>17821968
>it freaks me out
In what way specifically?
>it will be a permanent state I will be in for the rest of time
Yes and? Why worry about something you can't control?

>>17820734
My life is better and more meaningful than yours. Im superior to you. I'm never going to a burning trash pit.

>>17820915
I'm not doing that.

>>17821683
The afterlife does not exist.

>>17820161
You're a fucking idiot
The afterlife doesn't exist. Thus your entire argument is meaningless.
I'm not going to drug myself to death. I'd rather exercise and chill out

>>17821813
In that case normalfags are not conscious as don’t have self awareness

>>17822045
>he believes that mr.bones infernal ride ends with death
My sides.
Beyond naive.

>>17821795
>it's like before you were born
and what happened after before you were born? you have to be a special kind of midwit to be worried over NONexistence.

>>17822085
The afterlife does not exist. Enjoy life while you can

>>17818596 (OP)
Humans and other animals werent meant to live long lives. Naturally there needs to be a refresh of people, maybe you get to come back in a new generation, but ultimately we're apart of this process.

>>17822030
>In what way specifically?
It's hard to put in words, it just puts a fear in me. Mayber it's the fear of the unkown or whatever
>Why worry about something you can't control?
Maybe I just don't have that kind of chill zen like attitude but I think you can worry about alot of stuff that isn't in your control. Most things you worry about are kind of out of your hands, if that means you shouldn't worry about it then the concept of worrying is kind of irrelevant

>>17818849
>A meta-analysis of 63 studies showed a significant negative association between intelligence and religiosity.
›First, intelligent people are less likely to conform and, thus, are more likely to resist religious dogma.
Second, intelligent people tend to adopt an analytic (as opposed to intuitive) thinking style, which has been shown to undermine religious beliefs. Third, several functions of religiosity, including compensatory control, self-regulation, self-enhancement, and secure attachment, are also conferred by intelligence.
Intelligent people may therefore have less need for religious beliefs and practices
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23921675/

Christ cucks have sun 85iq at best making them no better than blacks

>>17822135
>Most things you worry about are kind of out of your hands
Not really. Like I don't worry about getting into a car accident. All you have to do is practice good defensive driving skills. You cannot control if someone is going to rear end you at a stop light.

>>17818596 (OP)
A widely known strategy to beat him quickly consists in bringing the Holy Water sub-weapon along with the Triple Shot power-up, and then jump and throw a vial on the rightmost platform to stun him as soon as he enters the screen.

>>17822209
Intelligent myfucking ass!
What is a woman

>>17821965
Because he granted them the a portion of his kingdom to rule for a period of time. Then he asked them whether they wanted to rule with him or against him
He will never take his gifts back, even if it inconveniences him

Thus, to this day, they are still ruling alongside him just as he promised

>>17822054
Then you are not maximizing your pleasure, which is against the hedonism code

>>17822780
I never said I was a hedonist, shit for brains. You did, because you're such an idiot that you think everyone who isn't Christian is a hedonist. Like all Christians, you're a moron.

>>17822782
Yeah, yeah, sure you aren't
You entitled brat

Christcucks are so insufferable. You have people like >>17822780 acting like they have access to some privileged information - when in reality they're just gonna blabber on about NDEs or faith or some other bullshit. This strategy of pretending you're more wise so you don't have to elaborate on your beliefs is retarded. Then you have retards like >>17822767 and >>17822780 desperately trying to paint you as a liberal tranny cock guzzling freak because you don't believe in ancient jewish magic

>>17823167
Trannys are atheists

>>17823227
And 60IQ congolese niggers are christians

>>17823243
Almost half of the world knows Christ. So?

>>17818596 (OP)
Where death is, I am not. Where I am, death is not. I believe in the Bible, as well as it's promise of everlasting life and eternal triumph over death itself.

That's my "cope", if you will lol.

>>17822402
best message of the thread

>>17823264
yeah the turd world

>>17825675
Atheists do not exist in the real world
You are all just pampered bitches

>>17822402
pretty sure I had more trouble with him than with Dracula

>>17818596 (OP)
Believe, repent, become baptized, and follow Jesus Christ to have eternal life. That is the way.

>>17825679
The turd world isn't the real world, it's irrelevant.

>>17825955
lul
You are only an atheist until the bread runs out

>>17818596 (OP)
Stop coping. You know in your heart the real reason for your terror, and your terror betrays you. Who would be afraid of non-existence? Who tells himself he won't exist as anything but a comfort from the dark and terrible reality of the judgement he's going to? Telling yourself God isn't real won't save you, only Jesus will save you.

>>17826000
How would not being atheist solve the problem of the bread running out? Are you basically admitting Christianity is just cope for your shitty brown life?

>>17818596 (OP)
As terrible as that awareness is, it's a spiritual gift. Remembering death is a powerful spiritual motor. Use it to investigate (and God-willing to experience) eternity.

>>17826055
Better question:
Why are the people most blessed the ones who reject God the most?

why do christfags lack basic reading comprehension and constantly project their bullshit onto others?

>>17826889
to beat atheists at their own game