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Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence
    #8023904 - 02/14/08 06:52 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

This is a title from an Erowid trip report. Does it make sense to anyone here?


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8023908 - 02/14/08 06:53 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Ive been known to make sense


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8023936 - 02/14/08 06:57 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

He is obviously comparing his deeper fears with his personal beliefs about dying. Not sure what's so scary about non-existence though. To be afraid of the idea makes no sense to me.


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: TheCow]
    #8023960 - 02/14/08 07:00 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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TheCow said:
Ive been known to make sense




When?


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #8023961 - 02/14/08 07:01 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

it an odd kind of poetry
not my cuppa t


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8023998 - 02/14/08 07:07 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Today for instance.


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: redgreenvines]
    #8024006 - 02/14/08 07:09 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

It sounds mixed up, like it should be
"Non-existence is Nothing, compared to Death...."

:ohwell:


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8024049 - 02/14/08 07:18 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

What I get from it is that death is preferable to not existing (i.e., not making your mark on the world) in the first place...or something like that.

But then what the fuck do I know?


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: PhanTomCat]
    #8024054 - 02/14/08 07:18 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

It's like comparing Funyums to Doritos...


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8024153 - 02/14/08 07:36 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Yes, one has a hollow center.....!

"Death" and "Nothing" + (an implied) "Life" and "Something" = a zero sum, but it all still existed....

Yeah, must be a abstraction of poetry of sorts....    :ohwell:
It only makes sense when I squint my brain really hard, then it gets blurry again....


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8024606 - 02/14/08 09:22 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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OrgoneConclusion said:
This is a title from an Erowid trip report. Does it make sense to anyone here?




Damn hippies.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8026980 - 02/15/08 11:47 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Non-existence is the base fear, where the fear of death stems from. There are many forms of death. They all lead to non-existence one way or another.


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Icelander]
    #8027015 - 02/15/08 12:01 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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This is a title from an Erowid trip report. Does it make sense to anyone here?




Damn hippies.




If we didn't give them asylum in small, quaint PNW towns...


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8027204 - 02/15/08 12:55 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I'm just keepin em corralled for food when the whole thing blows. Icelander needs lots of vegan fed protein.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Icelander]
    #8027336 - 02/15/08 01:25 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

They may have toxic levels of LSD built up in their systems. Be vewy, vewy caweful.


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8027401 - 02/15/08 01:37 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

More like tons of pot.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Icelander]
    #8027870 - 02/15/08 03:49 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

:bongload:


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: backfromthedead]
    #8027984 - 02/15/08 04:14 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Just say 'NO!' to old hippies. :nono:


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8027989 - 02/15/08 04:15 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I find pot tedious.


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Icelander]
    #8027997 - 02/15/08 04:17 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I find tea potious.


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8028109 - 02/15/08 04:44 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

that was my trip report if you must know :cool:


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Bridgeburner]
    #8028117 - 02/15/08 04:46 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

You should be very proud. :wink:


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8028130 - 02/15/08 04:49 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

why is that?

i felt like i was about experience ego death and i started fighting it, therefore fucking it up. i wasn't ready/was too scared or my ego was.


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Bridgeburner]
    #8028186 - 02/15/08 05:06 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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that was my trip report if you must know :cool:




So, what is the meaning that you were trying to get across with the title of the report....?


>^;;^<


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Bridgeburner]
    #8028193 - 02/15/08 05:07 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

You or your ego? Please 'splain the difference.


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: PhanTomCat]
    #8028243 - 02/15/08 05:16 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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b0red5tiff said:
that was my trip report if you must know :cool:




So, what is the meaning that you were trying to get across with the title of the report....?


>^;;^<




that i was freaked out in a place that has no measurements, no time or space and i was reduced to a single thought, like i was condemned to the smallest and the most important piece of existence, being essentially non-existance, yet not death.

i don't know what death is but that was scarier and greater. it was not an end, it hadn't ever begun, it just WAS. a rabid dog eating itself, a snake swallowing its own tail.


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8028271 - 02/15/08 05:21 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Non-existence does not exist.

The brain is not the mind.

Don't ask me to prove it, you'll have your proof soon enough.


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Middleman]
    #8029493 - 02/15/08 10:29 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

So then tell me, if non-existence does not exist, what does exist?


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Middleman]
    #8029681 - 02/15/08 11:40 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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Non-existence does not exist.




that's exactly why it is "called" non-existence by our linguistic center in the brain. i don't think i can comprehend it on a sufficient level for me to articulate it.

and i don't feel the need to make myself understandable to others by it, words only confuse and muddle the memory of it.


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Bridgeburner]
    #8029690 - 02/15/08 11:44 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

"It seems there is something rather than nothing,
Non-existence does not exist.
I'm trying to explain the essence of Fear
To get a realization of what I consist."


Those are actually lyrics from one of my favorite albums.

I once heard it while tripping and understood it very deeply somehow.


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Middleman]
    #8029701 - 02/15/08 11:51 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

during the tail end of that trip i asked my sitter to put on my pantera cd and "Immortally Insane" started playing. there was nothing more horrifying than to listen to this:

Destroying, destroying
Foundation, foundation
I'm going, I'm going
Forever, forever

Immortally insane
Immortally insane
Immortally insane
Immortally insane


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Bridgeburner]
    #8029792 - 02/16/08 12:30 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Exactly, I don't understand why folks say believers in the afterlife are just afraid of non-existence at death.

An eternal individuated consciousness and continuous re-embodiment seems far more frightening...


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Middleman]
    #8029969 - 02/16/08 01:52 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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I don't understand why folks say believers in the afterlife are just afraid of non-existence at death.




Wht fabricate such a fairy tale unless there is fear of cessation? There is no evidence to back up such a story and no other reason makes sense.


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Re: Death Is Nothing Compared To Non-Existence [Re: Middleman]
    #8029991 - 02/16/08 02:07 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Oh, non-existence exists for sure. I always keep repeating this. Think of a dried-out river.
Then I usually say, I am happy for the non-existing nuclear-plant in my garden. And I am sad about my non-existing girl-friend, which keeps visiting me almost every day.


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