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Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. 1
#27814637 - 06/11/22 01:15 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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I find myself thinking everyday is a day I don’t get back I feel like sad but I shouldn’t I should just be happy for the moment but sometimes I just breakdown crying like when drunk thinking about my dog and family getting older and I feel sad because I don’t believe I’ll see them again if they die I just don’t believe in the religious stuff. I know it’s going to happen and I can’t stop thinking about how they will just be gone. My thoughts are causing me to feel unhappy but I don’t know how to change them. I’m sure I’m not alone this happens to everyone with time. How do you atheists deal with loosing family and friends? I feel like I would be a lot happier if I believed in religion but I can’t fool myself.
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: CaptainTrips420]
#27814650 - 06/11/22 01:32 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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I'm not truly atheist but agnostic, I don't believe in 1 single supreme being but I do believe we are all energy which never dies. Once I leave this vessel(my body) my energy will return to the universe(or multiverse) to be recycled into something else. I believe we are hear to learn lessons to take with us to the next adventure as what ever we become. I think we are all connected in more ways than anyone will ever understand. So in short, I believe our so called souls are energy. With all of us being energy, when we die we become the energy of the universe to mingle amongst other energy. Some of us will return to live life (not necessarily human) again on earth, some will venture to other universes or planets to live life there. Shit you might even become a star and burn brighter than the sun. I have been in the darkness with fear of death and crawled my way out from the fear of it to learn to embrace what's next. I hope this helps.
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: Bigworm]
#27814700 - 06/11/22 02:27 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Well I wouldn't worry about it until it happens! I'm there-I've lost most of my family, it sucks for sure. Made me think about life and death and what's the point of it all. I do find life a massive weight, and a lot of guilt. Just do your best to appreciate your family whilst you have them and then at least you won't have the burden of guilt once they are gone.
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: CaptainTrips420]
#27816568 - 06/12/22 06:20 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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if they die
Ain’t no if about it. Lost my moms and my pops and my dogs in the past year.
Time and nature are fucking relentless and brutal.
But it’s the urgency of the temporal that gives beauty meaning. Seize the day.
And I’ll tell you a secret. Even entropy aging and death are beautiful. Even sorrow is beautiful.
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#27817655 - 06/13/22 01:35 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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I think about loosing my family and feel like I don’t care if I died. I don’t want to while they are alive but thinking about being all by myself with no one who cares about me makes me feel depressed. I’m really considering smoking cigarettes again because I feel like it doesn’t matter I could die. But I’m not going to I just have to take care of my health and stop thinking about negative things that make me sad.
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: CaptainTrips420]
#27817728 - 06/13/22 02:29 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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You and everybody are eternal.
Time spent suffering anticipation of the unavoidable is time wasted.
Whenever you feel the fear of losing a loved one do something positive toward that loved one, even if it's just shooting them a "thinking of you <3" on social media.
You got to start turning negatives into positives or you'll have nothing but negatives.
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Edited by Asante (06/13/22 02:30 PM)
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#27817842 - 06/13/22 04:12 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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TheFakeSunRa said:
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if they die
Ain’t no if about it. Lost my moms and my pops and my dogs in the past year.
I'm very sorry to hear that, SunRa.
OP, I know exactly how I feel. Exactly.
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: CaptainTrips420] 2
#27818131 - 06/13/22 06:46 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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CaptainTrips420 said:
I find myself thinking everyday is a day I don’t get back
I understand. We know life is constant change, and we would be in hell in a world that never changed. Clouds and people and pets come and go. The perception of "loss" tends to be egocentric, and if we reframe it as change, it can seem less personal.
The heartache of losing a loved one is incredibly beautiful, yet we are terrified of it. Heartache is simply a full expression of our love. It's not bad. It's wonderful. It's an outgrowth of love. It can be insightful to consider why it feels so terrifying. You appear to be emotionally disturbed as you anticipate heartache with dread. I relate!
How'd you feel if your loved ones suffered as they anticipate your death? It could happen at any moment.
Beware of grieving before it's time to grieve.
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: Niffla]
#27819176 - 06/14/22 11:20 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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I'm very sorry to hear that, SunRa.
Preciate it. It’s been a tough ass year.
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Beware of grieving before it's time to grieve
Well fucking said
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 1
#27819213 - 06/14/22 11:59 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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RJ Tubs 202 said:
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CaptainTrips420 said:
I find myself thinking everyday is a day I don’t get back
I understand. We know life is constant change, and we would be in hell in a world that never changed. Clouds and people and pets come and go. The perception of "loss" tends to be egocentric, and if we reframe it as change, it can seem less personal.
The heartache of losing a loved one is incredibly beautiful, yet we are terrified of it. Heartache is simply a full expression of our love. It's not bad. It's wonderful. It's an outgrowth of love. It can be insightful to consider why it feels so terrifying. You appear to be emotionally disturbed as you anticipate heartache with dread. I relate!
How'd you feel if your loved ones suffered as they anticipate your death? It could happen at any moment.
Beware of grieving before it's time to grieve.
Man this is a deep, introspective and great post.
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: Niffla]
#27819259 - 06/14/22 12:39 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks if I think about it from there perspective I don’t think they would want me to feel sad but I just can’t help it sometimes. I also don’t know what purpose I have on earth I want to spread love and positivity but I feel like nothing really matters. I just don’t understand the point of life if it’s all gone one day. Everything I feel and do doesn’t really matter unless you can remember it but if I had past lives I don’t remember so I doubt I will remember this one.
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: CaptainTrips420] 1
#27819498 - 06/14/22 03:07 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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I just don’t understand the point of life if it’s all gone one day
There doesn’t need to be a point.
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: CaptainTrips420] 1
#27819673 - 06/14/22 05:24 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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~ I also don’t know what purpose I have on earth I want to spread love and positivity but I feel like nothing really matters.
You find meaning in love & positivity. How about maintaining the perspective that's what matters most?
~ I just don’t understand the point of life if it’s all gone one day.
So . . . meaning has no meaning unless it remains in our consciousness for eternity?
~ Everything I feel and do doesn’t really matter unless you can remember it but if I had past lives I don’t remember so I doubt I will remember this one.
If you develop Alzheimer’s disease and no longer recognize your loved ones, does that diminish the love that has existed? If someday my 89 year old father doesn't recognize me, is that really a tragedy? I wrestle with this. It feels so egotistical. I don't want love to be dependent on memory. Some claim love is eternal.
To be clear, I'm being idealistic. It is difficult to practice. Life is tough.
Be kind to yourself. This type of negativity has an inward hostility about it.
Some guy once said, “Depression is anger turned inward”
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#27821282 - 06/15/22 07:48 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living. This ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes with the complete forgetfulness, that one is, alive." -Wax Tailor, Ecstasy
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I don't think I've lost anyone at all. Sure, people have died and become worm food, but they live on in my memories. Those that died too early, those that died too late (dementia is a bitch), doesn't matter. They live with me.
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I have expressed my opinion that life has no meaning several times before. I believe that to be true. My essay on the subject is not yet ready to post. One day it will be.
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: CaptainTrips420]
#27838649 - 06/27/22 10:05 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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When time dies the temple will still be here, why cry over new wine?
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Re: Idk how to stop feeling sad about time being limited. [Re: Blackseeds]
#27843360 - 06/30/22 05:17 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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"I'm only human an life is pointless? Come, sit down with me.
My my, quite a bad trip you're having.. Let me help you get out of this sense of haunting finiteness and futility. First off, stop listening to science, which can't explain 85% of the observed mass of the known universe, and focus on me. Here's a banana and a glass of water, now listen up.. Outside of the universe is absolutely nothing. Its even impossible for there to be something, because if something were hypothetically put beside the Universe, it would be a part of it, because there would be absolutely nothing between the two, including no distance, so there would be zero distance between the Universe and the other thing, therefore its one. Whoa, I guess thats one way to open a banana, heh.
OK so we're the only game in town and the multiverse isn't a foam in the sense of universes beside each other but they are all into ieach other, into that one spot, which everything is a part of and nothing can be lost from. Sooo.. Relax. You have this humongous amount of energy, and it cannot be lost, and you have this humongous amount of information, and it cannot be lost either. Here's a blanket..
OK so basically what the deal is, in the only game in town, the only place with the only energy and information, a subatomic particle emerged and blew up into this Big Bang right? Basically a bar of soap burst into a gazillion bubbles, and these bubbles interact, but whats important right now is that eventually, every last bubble will pop. Like radioactive atoms, every bubble, even photons, pop, it all decays into basically, formless soap. pours another glass What they pop into? Spacetime of course, so all the little bubbles become one with the giant bubble of Spacetime. So you get that at some point, the last bubble will pop and you're left with nothing but spacetime right? Problem doc: one single object has no size so, instantaneously, all the soap smacks together into a subatomic bar of soap which can do nothing but erupt into another big bang, over and over, for all eternity.
OK, you're less pale now.. So what does that make you? Obviously at least a part of the multiverse, that will reincarnate into every possible organism, to live every possible life, forever, but since its all one thing, yeah, you're God. You're the totality of everything in all of its guises, eternally. You are this humongous amount of energy and information, in all of its guises, forever and ever, completely safe, not just this lil sack of bubbles in bubbles in bubbles sitting next to me, but also the blanket, the banana and me.
So you are not just eternal, you are literally everything and therefore, God, a piece of God that lost the plot for a sec.
Feeling better? Good, cause now the trip REALLY starts
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