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OfflineYoushouldknowabc
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Why is accepting nothingness so hard?
    #14004272 - 02/21/11 10:01 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

Why do people need assurance that there is something bigger?

Why is this feeling, or belief so important that it dictates life and what we can accomplish??

Is there a bigger feeling (besides death anxiety) that controls the need for assurance?

Am i crazy?

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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: Youshouldknowabc]
    #14004296 - 02/21/11 10:05 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

well they dont really need to accept ne thing without proof and they could be right or their really is nothing and u dont continue who knows.
either way it gives some people hope that their is life after death and if their really is nothing than o well they cant complain

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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: Youshouldknowabc] * 1
    #14004307 - 02/21/11 10:08 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

People like to assign purpose to their lives. Without a purpose, our existence is pointless. Such a concept would destroy our egos.


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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: Youshouldknowabc]
    #14004316 - 02/21/11 10:10 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

I have felt that nothingness your talking about and it brought me to a well fuck I'm going to do stuff anyway decision and if I can find out i will when/if I do if there is something to find out.. and i think from my own experiences the majority of the population at one point felt void of something and fills it with something, wether it be food, drugs, doin thangs, etc.  rather then go deeper

b/c if it really was nothing then some people feel as they shouldn't even "try to do something"

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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: demonofchaos]
    #14004329 - 02/21/11 10:12 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

ya if u had proof that nothing existed after death people would get all depressed and it would really suck everyone would hate u. so if u happen to discover proof of this its probably best to keep it a secret

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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: mirrorsnfuturestuf] * 1
    #14004330 - 02/21/11 10:12 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

expansion & transformation is the natural order of the universe

change is the only constant. not beginning or end. change


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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: demonofchaos]
    #14004336 - 02/21/11 10:14 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

What a sad view of life to have, not trying to defend the idiocy of religous fundamentalism but I like to think that there is a reason behind existence, If it is truly nothingness then why exist? what be the point?

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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #14004342 - 02/21/11 10:15 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)



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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou] * 1
    #14004346 - 02/21/11 10:15 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

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What a sad view of life to have, not trying to defend the idiocy of religous fundamentalism but I like to think that there is a reason behind existence, If it is truly nothingness then why exist? what be the point?




to enjoy every little moment of this fluke we call awareness that we can


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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: demonofchaos]
    #14004361 - 02/21/11 10:18 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

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ya if u had proof that nothing existed after death people would get all depressed and it would really suck everyone would hate u. so if u happen to discover proof of this its probably best to keep it a secret





lol. you druggies.

I agree with all of you that it would crush hopes, and put people down; but why does it have to happen that way at all? Why does it have to feel 'bad'? why can't it be the complete opposite? Like a freeing feeling, to know that everything out there isn't under your control (chaos) and everything that you control is under your control (order).. :justdontknow:

Also! A reason to keep going would be to feel good, to find happiness, to find random enjoyment in everything under no penal system.

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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: DrMambo]
    #14004363 - 02/21/11 10:18 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

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What a sad view of life to have, not trying to defend the idiocy of religous fundamentalism but I like to think that there is a reason behind existence, If it is truly nothingness then why exist? what be the point?




to enjoy every little moment of this fluke we call awareness that we can



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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: DrMambo]
    #14004399 - 02/21/11 10:25 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

Why think of it as a fluke? I like to think of it as a natural product of the universe, as natural as the heavy elemental by products of the stars. I think theres life everywhere throughout it, and were not some seemingly random fart of chemistry.

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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: Youshouldknowabc]
    #14004413 - 02/21/11 10:28 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

You're not crazy.  No one could know.  But I personally feel that it's most likely that we came from somewhere and that we're gonna go back there.  But who knows.













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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #14004421 - 02/21/11 10:29 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

Oh, I don't think life is a fluke in the manner of us being alone in the universe, just that living life as a sentient organism able to ponder such issues, and get behind some of them with observation, is pretty damn spectacular.


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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: Learyfan]
    #14004430 - 02/21/11 10:31 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

I like this very much because it explains it in simple terms.
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You're not crazy.  No one could know.  But I personally feel that it's most likely that we came from somewhere and that we're gonna go back there.  But who knows.

















"Don't expect anything, and you won't be disappointed"

I like to believe that disappointment will still exist when the time comes  :highdog:

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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: Envix]
    #14004445 - 02/21/11 10:33 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

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this is a great video but life still feels meaningless, even though we're a bunch of squiggles manifested in solid and space

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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: tito123]
    #14004451 - 02/21/11 10:34 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

Squiggles that can interact :doggystyle:



hehe.

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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: DrMambo]
    #14004468 - 02/21/11 10:37 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

Its beyond miraculous that we humans exist, kinda sad what we tend to do with the gift.

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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: Youshouldknowabc]
    #14004473 - 02/21/11 10:38 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

life has the meaning you give to it. humans have the power to give meaning to thangs, you can make use of that or not but inherently everything is meaningless

think of how other animals use meaning. prolly in vague feelings and instinctual impulses but us humans... we created a whole slew of symbols and alphabet then word matrix known as "language"; each of which have "dictionaries" containing "vocabulary" to categorize different sets of symbols together and "grammer" to appropriately portray and express loads upon loads of different meanings for thangs


of course all of these things sprouted out from the universe, just as flowers and trees and penguin-eating leopard seals did

and those eagles that soar down from the skies and jack mountain goats w/ their claws.. fling them off of mountain tops and watch them fall to their death for fun LOL


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Re: Why is accepting nothingness so hard? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #14004492 - 02/21/11 10:41 PM (13 years, 11 days ago)

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Its beyond miraculous that we humans exist, kinda sad what we tend to do with the gift.




like worshiping fake ideas and putting faith behind false hopes -.-


life should be lived out as it was meant to be. Peace and love between everyone. Food for everyone, water, shelter, clothes, education. Imagine doing that around the world for a few generations. Don't you think the human race would be so much more advanced and productive? If everyone can live peacefully, and have happiness you wouldn't need false hopes of a 'better heaven' after you die.

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