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Death. We are who we are because of our experiences and influences, right? What we think of ourselves, other people, other things, crap beyond, etc. That stuff influences our choices, and our choices further build on us, right? Just brain activity. Electrical impulses. That's what keeps us conscious. What will happen when we die? When all those electrical impulses just...stop, how on Earth would that work? Yeah, the whole light and a tunnel, but if it's true that there's nothing beyond that, how could all our previous thoughts, experiences, choices, affections, hates, the part that makes each of us a unique person...just fizzle out? We wouldn't even be able to comprehend death, because we wouldn't be there. We wouldn't be able to see our life flash before us, because it's all gone. And we couldn't even think about that, because we'd be gone.
For me, that's a horrid and terrifying thing. We're always thinking, working, sleeping, taking a crap, or participating in intercourse. And to imagine being unable to think...STUCK in non-exsistance, your soul just...a vegetable.

We create with our thoughts. Music, books, structures, cars. We ourselves are gods, having the ability to create whole universes, filled with life, and knowing the feelings and thoughts of every being on it. For that kind of power to simply poof away is sick; every day, gods are disappearing, never to be found again, impossible to replace, for we're all different.

Losing so many creators and so many unknown worlds. It's dismal.

I guess that's the main reason why I believe in an afterlife. You don't just drop life into the world only to snuff it out.

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LordBoop's avatar
god im having the most existential crisis I've ever had at the moment and just had to read through this journal and some of the comments.

I'm taking earth-space science right now...knew I shouldn't have taken that course. Whenever I learn about space, how we are just a tiny spec, nothing...how eventually the sun will die and with it everything on Earth. Even if I do leave something behind, something to be remembered by, it won't matter anyways. Everything we find important is just meaningless.

And along with this existential crisis is a horrible fear of death I have. I hope for an afterlife,everybody does, but I just can't make sense of it. Does everybody just become ghosts or something? Do we all go to some magical place? Are we going to be trapped in our own minds, stuck in a black void, or something else? What about every other living specimen that ever existed? Even not on earth..the universe is billions of years old, and full of planets. There has to be many with life on them, where do all their spirits go? I can't get this one person's word out of my head.."What happens when you die? Same thing that happened before you were born. If you don't exist then you do not experience."

Gosh, I wish I could just go back to being worry-free. I had this same issue back in elementary school, and it was the worst time ever...I can't believe it's happening again. Sorry for the long comment on this old post, I just really had to get that off my chest.