Does eternal oblivion scare you? The thought of my consciousness being gone for eternity after I die scares the sh-it out of me.
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It used to, but not much anymore. If thats the way the universe rolls, thats the way it is. There is nothing you can do about it if there is nothing after death, so as Alfred E Neuman says, “what, me worry?”
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Very true
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Maybe as I get older I’ll grow out of this fear.
Hopefully.
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I try not to think about it. I imagine once I’m 75+ it will haunt me unless I can make my peace with it.
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One thing that gets me is the knowledge that I didn’t exist for billions of years before I was born. Somebody said, “Nothing either lives or dies. It just changes form.” Maybe that applies to consciousness too.
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Yes it bothers me I have been thinking the same.
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Maybe look at it like this :
There are billions of people in the world. You’re just one among many similar beings. People that aren’t that much different from you will live on long past your not being around anymore. Maybe it can be a comfort that others like you will live on? In some ways you will live on. IDK.
I just know for sure that its a waste of time and energy dwelling on things that you can’t change.
I fear the process of death and not being healthy and happy while I’m alive. Not so much the fact that it will come eventually.
Don’t get me wrong though, I don’t want to die anytime soon either.
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Well said
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I am putting my energy into what I have changed. So many hear encourage me that I can make changes.
I see so many good examples. And now I am really enjoying more habits of taking care of my responsibilities. And even in forming habits to get myself to do my hobbies daily. Now I actually am looking forward to continue to change what I can. And also am enjoying some of the changes that have happened.
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I think that consciousness dies alongside our physical death (though I may be wrong…)
But I’ll just accept it does die just in case it really does.
I think to help others which can take all sorts of shapes and forms, is the way to survive after death.
Because u made a positive dent in their life.
Joy is universal. If someone is joyful, because of me to some extent, that joy will live on.
I think it’s about learning to truly be glad and satisfied in others joy not primarily because u want to live on in joy after death but primarily because u care. And when you love some1, that’s natural. On a logical side, I care for a stranger because we are all somehow connected via sharing the same universal emotions feelings desires
I still haven’t read that book you recommended on this forum. I’m a lazy bum.
But I’m looking 4ward to reading it.
It may change my perspective on things, idk!!! 
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So basically, the primary intent for me should be that I care, when helping someone. And a side effect of that, is living on in eternity because joy never dies, lol.
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Once I die, I’m worm food. I have no expectations of anything past death and I’m not particularly frightened of dying though I don’t want to die until many, many years from now.
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And a big potrzebie to that.
Consciousness is the basis of universe.
Matter of universe is Consciousness
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Every little atom has consciousness.
That’s why i feel watched by every object.
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I find it easy to think if there’s one thing, than the other can exist also. It doesnt always have to be one way. We might find out that the experience of death is also an experience, or change, and a shift into a different experience of the afterlife.
My personal belief is that there is a substance of non-reality to this universe, and that we go through a karmic filter until we become pure Akasha. Or maybe we already are Pure Akasha experiencing a materialistic layer as life and then when the life body dies there is still a form of conscious awareness.
You would think of reality like the static on a tv screen, people as different patterns that are created in the static, but the self as the current thats running thru the wires which is the true substance of beyond electricity.
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It’s actually quite comforting to me. The way I see it, I won’t ever suffer again. And I won’t even know my consciousness is gone because well it’s gone🤷🏽
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Very interesting comment. Thanks for the reply.
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Nobody knows what this phenomenon is, assuming eternal oblivion because you black out and body dies, is not considering that you don’y understand consciousness. It may be very well that only your sense of self makes you think you will die, but really you are just a fragment of infinite shattered pieces of glass of one consciousness that becomes its own consciousness. Don’t be certain of your eternal fate until you have proven it.
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