How do you guys cope with the fact that death is inevitable and it will happen to all of us at some point?
By not worrying about it.
Everyone's story ends the same way.
I console myself with he fact that I'll spend eternity up there with the big J.C.
>>767847435
by drinking and smoking to speed it up. man I can't wait.
>>767847435
looking very forward to it cause my life sucks. in fact every time there's talk in the new about a catastrophic even such as an asteroid I hope it hits me right where I live.
>>767847435
That's why you have to make the most out of everyday.
>>767847435
by enjoying life.
You only die once. You live every fucking day until then.
>>767847435
>The fact
>That's how
Although avoiding death may become possible within the next 50 years
>>767847738
This.
I, for example, spend all my free time here on /b/
>>767847435
Living a good an meaningful life.
Religion is some solace, though honestly I don’t think too much about an afterlife
>>767847435
by not giving a fuck about it. considering my drug use and over all unhealthiness im assuming ill be blasted to heaven or hell at around like anywhere from early 50s to late 60s so thats a good while from now, just dont be gay and have fun. do everything so that way when youre about to go have nothing to wanna stay for.
>>767847860
>You only die once
bullshit. being born and dying is an infinite circle, it never stops.
>>767847435
Read Apology by Plato
>>767847979
really? /b/ sucks today I don't get why you waste your time being here all day. like 10 years ago it was entertaining and original but definitely not anymore.
>>767847435
Look up Alan Watts videos. Learn to become at peace with the knowledge that you, your whole life, everyone you've ever known, it all literally comes form nothing. You are one of the many amazing things that just happen. New universes will bang into existence with another you; same thoughts, same consciousness, the same life but maybe you for example chose a different bus route and led you to new experiences and new people, a different version of your life. So you and your potential never fades. When you close your eyes one last time, you become nothing, but you always were nothing. Nothingness isn't anything to fear. Non existence isn't an experience, one shouldn't fear death as a dark, infinite void. This all just happens and it will happen again.
I dont give a damn . Aunt died todday in the morning . That of the cookie crumbels . Make the best out of every moment and dont give a shit
>>767848730
you sound like someone that has taken dmt
>>767847435
>cope
Are you crazy? I can't wait!
>>767848998
The non-existence that follows afterwards is the disturbing part.
>>767848249
As i did this whole we i must ask you:
Please, great oldfag, explain to me what was so great about The old /b/
It still seems an interesting crazy Place, like nothing i Saw anywhere else. I Just can't stand The /political/ ritardation, But i appreciate all The degeneration and The autismo as inherent your crazy culture. But there was a thread, a couple of hours ago were oldfags like you were triing to guess from where comes The cancerness evident for The like of you sir.
>>767847435
Coping mechanism no 1.
>is inevitable
>will happen to all of us
/thread
>>767847435
By sitting back and hearing the 100,000,000,000th person ask the question for the 100,000,000,000th time.
>>767849099
That's the best part.
>>767847435
i don't mind
i am from a wealthy family,so money will most lickely don't be an issue for me
also i don't plan to ever getting married neither having kids
all i like to do is travel,smoke weed and fap to ecchi
so i'm not afraid to die
>>767849260
Well threads used to be original and not a copypasta of a copypasta of a copypasta. People used to be creative and memes used to be born here. You could have inspiring discussions about interesting topics here. Also Facebook/Insta/Snap/Kik and all that shit didn't exist.
>>767849099
No that sounds like a great experience to me, because what I hate most about myself is my ego or personality and I want to get rid of that and just be pure consciousness.
>>767849627
>just be pure consciousness
Fucksake. Newagefag detected.
You die = fucking dead. Wormfood.
>>767849627
Don't know why, but sounds to make Sense. But The fact is that precisely the annihilation of the consciousness Will be The death itself.
We all return to the earth that bore us. For a time, we are; then, we are not. It is a necessary part of nature for life to give way to death.
>>767849892
>doesn't acknowledge our bodies are just receivers
How does it feel to be that ignorant?
>>767850082
I'm not afraid of death but waaay too afraid to initiate it. This biological container I've been put inside of, which happens to be my body is garbage and I wish I could get rid of it. Being a human can be nice, but not if you're me.
>>767849260
I’m not that guy but I’ve been coming here for about 10 years. Back then /b/ was still mostly underground, someone inevitably challenge me on that statement but it’s true. That doesn’t mean a lot of people didn’t browse, it just means that most of the people were the same people day in and day out. So, just like any other cult, /b/ had its own culture and memes. It was more like a club where if you didn’t know the lingo or get the jokes you probably didn’t enjoy being here.
These days /b/ is just an open invitation for any random asshole to anonymously make a thread about how they hate their life or ask a meaningless question they’re too inept to ask anyone else. That’s all in between the innumerable amount of porn threads, half of which are about traps or cum eating. It wasn’t always like that. There are still the classics, YLYL, gore, R34, etc, but the main difference is just the culture. Instead of being a club of obscure memes or a safe place to post edgy content, /b/ is just a place the public comes to say things anonymously and there’s almost no cohesion between anyone or anything.
said it yourself: inevitable
live life while you can, in the end nothing matters
>>767847435
by welcoming it freely. Fuck life.
>>767847435
One day I’ll die. But all others, I won’t.
>>767848730
This philosophy is amazing.
>>767847435
Eh
Been aware for twenty years
After a while it goes from a shrieking panic in your mind down to a yell, then down to a thrumming, loud noise and eventually down to a low, dull hum that persists through every single thing you do and say, the knowledge that any single thing could be your last-- that nature can decide at any time to pull your plug. There is even a subset of conditions alluding to totally random, unexpected death.
You really just get by by realizing death is really the only way life would be any good. The idea that it ends gives it... levity, some sort of relief in the mire.
Or maybe that's just me.
>>767850754
Social media killed the entire internet. What else is new?
Everyone wants to be able to say "NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER" without being fucking lynched by people twice their size, but they all want to get UPDOOTS and LIKES and THUMBUPS for it, so they can be socially elevated or something.
If you want to point fingers, point at ourselves. We could have prevented this. This was the natural order of the internet... we all got our kicks acting like total fucking morons, so now we're surrounded by total fucking morons who think this is where they belong.
It is, but not in the way they think or act.
Or maybe it is, I don't really know anymore.
As for the porn I wish you cunts would stop bitching about that. I've been getting my porn from /b/ for actual years, I was a teen and not legal to drink when I started. Porn has been around /b/ forever, the only reason it seems 'innumerable' now is because the rest of /b/'s content left with its creators who saw all the teenagers everywhere and realized the sad, unfortunate truth about /b/:
We're just too old for this shit anymore.
>>767851208
Kek
>>767851296
>it’s our fault /b/ is shitty
No. Back in the day it was a mortal sin to talk about /b/. Rules 1 and 2 my dude. The majority of us wanted to keep it a secret so that we wouldn’t get flooded with roodypoos shitting up the fun. It’s inevitable that eventually the word will get leaked to the public and we’ll get flooded, so there’s nothing we can really do about that. It’s not our fault that culture from other sites bled into ours.
>porn threads
First of all, I didn’t say the porn threads were a bad thing, I just said there used to be a time when porn threads were 10% of the threads and not 80% like it has been for several years. Also, don’t try to justify it with a lame excuse of “wah when I first started browsing I couldn’t get porn anywhere else” because that’s fucking bullshit and you fucking know it. Porn has been easily accessible on the internet since dial up. If anything, porn is more widely available on the internet now more than ever, which by your logic would mean there should be LESS porn threads, not more. But again, I don’t really care about the porn threads.
>>767851296
What about pepe and tendies kiddo? Is that shit newfags' Cancer or oldschool /b/?
>>767849099
It's just like before you were born.
>>767847435
just like with everything else ever;
dont think about it
>>767847435
Im going to off meself once i hit 50. Dont wanna get old
>>767852120
It’s not old school. Pepe himself is old school because the original “feels good man” meme was old school, but all of this new Pepe stuff isn’t even close to being old school. Even “feels bad man” is borderline not being old material.
>>767852120
it's not even pepe, it's fucking sad frog.
newfags started calling him pepe.
The same way I accept that birth is inevitable and has happened to all of us.
>>767847435
Every now and then I do get that feeling of impending doom the sudden realization of knowing someday I will die and nothing can stop it. It seems totally unfair and depressing I try to snap out of it and think of something else. I did notice though that this sets off the fight or flight mechanism atleast with me which can be good in some instances. Like that guy who climbed mount everest in just a pair of shorts or something he could do the same thing. Not saying I could do that but im sure it has its uses wakes me up better than any coffee. But back on topic... To cope with it I notice quite a few people have decided to try DMT or auyaschya or whatever. When we die a massive burst of DMT is released its what we see as "heaven" it also causes our dreams at night. Many people on DMT believe they traverse to alternate worlds/realities and seem so convinced nothing can change their mind. So at some point I will do the same to cope with death you either have to find out and believe there is an afterlife. Or just ignore it and self medicate when you need weed will do you wonders.
>>767847435
I wasn't bothered about not existing at the time before my birth, so I shouldn't be after my death either.
>>767852282
Well, that seems like an interesting meme to me. I understand that it Might be different, from the spirit of good ol' days, but it can be considered an evolution, even if maybe for the worse.
That said everytime someone posts shit from the old /b/ i recognize pure genius, especially in the stupidest things (ultragiganigga is hilarious for example), And by comparison nowadays autism is exetremly Sad. But Again, what about The autism? Ain't that a new meme?
Who really cares? Anyone could die at any point? Life is fleeting live it up while you can OP.
Ez stop being a pussy
>>767847435
I actually died once. It was great. Like swimming in a sea of nothingness
Its a contest. Whoever lives the longest wins.
>>767853347
Maybe one day ill be the oldest person alive, for a few years
>>767850723
I don't think bodies being receivers is a fact unless you're establishing the idea that consciousness/identity isn't connected to the brain in any meaningful way.
And I doubt this very much because of what you said about consciousness.
>>767847435
Thanks to denial I'm going to live forever
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." -Mark Twain
>>767847435
These's nothing you can do about it. Save the fear for when it happens. Usually people die afraid, so why live afraid?
>>767849513
>Trumps son is on 4chan again
>>767853463
Youll be dead and you wont even know it. You need to accept it so your soul can move on
>>767852866
>Every now and then I do get that feeling of impending doom
I used to feel like that, now I get the feel of "impending redemption".
fuck cops
>>767847435
Death us gonna be sweet. Finally no one to answer to. No more responsibility. No pain.
>>767853453
>And I doubt this very much because of what you said about consciousness.
How so? I think that when you die you are consciousness but without a personality because that's all created by your brain.
>>767847435
life is not the same without death
>>767854345
But why?
>>767854345
How does consciousness exist without the brain that created it? How does consciousness impart itself without knowledge of being? How is the brain a receiver? How is the body a receiver if consciousness is not received? If you hate your ego or personality so much, why would you ever want to be pure consciousness? Why would you want to be pure ego? Non-existence is not pure consciousness; consciousness is something, there is an agent possessing (pure) consciousness to experience being, not nothing.
And, when I said that bodies being receivers could only be a fact if you were establishing the idea that consciousness/identity lacked any meaningful connection to the brain, you went ahead and suggested that consciousness is created by the brain. There is no way to establish consciousness as it is defined, without acknowledgement of identity of the self in lieu of consciousness being awareness of the self, and the surrounding surroundings. Anything else is not consciousness. Not how you've used it, and not how it is regularly defined.
>>767854926
spent a lot of time reading about near death experiences and people taking dmt trip reports and they all sound similar and point to the same conclusion.
>>767855076
>How does consciousness exist without the brain that created it?
Because it doesn't need a brain to exist. It just exists. It comes from a dimension we can not measure or understood, or experienced unless we die or take the right drugs. But even then it will show you so much and leave you so overwhelmed that you won't be able to comprehend what you saw.
>>767847435
-Deaf is inevitable.
-What?
-DEAF IS INEVItABLE
-Man, but I don't wanna die. :/
>>767855738
I'm sorry but there's really nothing you can do to change it.
>>767855850
A nutting I can do to change it?
Damn, you're a perverted one.
How does nutting prevent death?
Though I find it depressing at times, ultimately I will be too dead to care about dying once it happens, so it would be foolish of me to waste time afraid of it while I am alive.
>>767855490
>Because it doesn't need a brain to exist
>It just exists
>can not measure or understood
>or experienced unless we die or take the right drugs
>won't be able to comprehend what you saw
Oh, great. I guess it may as well not exist.
>>767847435
not if you are a Transhumanist.
>>767856161
There's more to existence than meets the eye, but don't take my word for it, read about near death experiences, especially under medical surveillance. People have been flying out of their bodies, and saw things behind closed doors they couldn't possibly have seen (that have been confirmed to be true later), went to the beyond and back to meet with "beings", all while they're brains were basically dead and had no activity.
>>767847435
i try to experience everything before i die. aka experience life.
>>767852866
>Every now and then I do get that feeling of impending doom
i feel it too.
>>767853734
>>767857085
Glad to know I am not alone on that feeling. I snap out of it quickly now but it really does suck. I found Sativa weed helps a lot I hear mushrooms work good to. I tried lsd hoping to get some life changing experience but didn't really do much maybe I didnt take enough.
>>767855992
This. "death" will be over before you know it.
It's just the shedding of the body and a transition to a more pure state of consciousness anyway.
>>767847435
Comforting
>>767857618
How do you know these things? What is it like?
>>767857402
If you want that life changing experience I'd recommend looking into dmt, cause lsd lasts longer and is likely to make you freak out. psyched substance has a lot of good videos on dmt.
>>767857058
>read about near death experiences
I am familiar with near death experiences. The majority of what you just said can be explained away more mechanistically than what you've given me. And, a "basically" dead brain is not a brain that can still function. Brain death is not a coma, not a vegetative state. Brain death is the termination of brain function needed, or found, with living people. Even those in a coma. Brain death is akin to tearing up a smooth surface until there is nothing but chunks, and still insisting that a small toy car can travel across it fine without being impeded by or getting stuck in the missing chunks of surface you removed. Brain death is irreversible damage, distinct damage. Like shattering glass as opposed to merely cracking it. Brain death is where your brain stops beating your heart, ceases networking signals representative of conscious thought, and generally being compromised of living cells that are not on their way to also dying. You cannot survive brain death- you cannot survive "basic" brain death. Not today. Zero activity is zero activity, and there is nothing the doctors can do when your cells have died.
>>767847435
I embrace it. I'll die when I die. If anything I'm kinda excited to see if there is anything after death
>>767858236
What if it's hell? I'm an atheist but i sometimes worry that i'm going to wake up one day in the lake of fire. In that instant i will not that i seriously fucked up and that my soul will suffer and burn for eternity.
>>767857774
I thought this to my first time i dropped it alone (lsd) and watch apocalypse now and listened to tool after. Only freaked out for a min when trying to sleep after seeing a spider. Wasn't that bad to be honest but I am with you on the dmt I feel like that could bring a real change. But I heard of people throwing up and swinging at people on it haha.
>>767858501
it's eternity, I'll get used to it and then I'll be bored
>>767858127
I meant like that areas responsible for processing the senses and conscious thinking showed no activity but people still saw things that actually happened. Sometimes the interiors of different buildings in completely different cities. When they came back came back their brains obviously showed little to now damage, otherwise they wouldn't be able to recall their experience.
>>767858665
Exactly. After a while in hell there's no amount of pain or torture that your brain would even bother registering. You'd just be an utterly indifferent piece of flesh. Sure it'd probably take a painful while, but it's not like the pain will be eternal.
>>767858501
"hell" is a concept that was created to scare and control people. there is no hell. just as there is no "good" or "bad".
>>767858665
>>767858927
You people are really nonchalant about this whole hell thing. It seems to me that it would suck a lot.
>>767859037
Just because it was used for indoctrination doesn't mean it automatically counts as invalid. If humans ever become capable of creating a computer simulation with conscious beings, then we will prove to ourselves that the concept of God isn't exactly far fetched. Maybe there's a God out there no one's ever heard about or written about, that still rules over us and awaits our deaths to send whatever hold our conscience down to some afterlife or whatever.
>>767853347
Yeah, death. Philosophic.
Watch Mob Psycho 100. It is true that you are the main character in your own story, but you're not the most important person to exist.
Death is inevitable, yes. So grab life by the balls and live your story before it's too late and all you can do is try to help the generation before you figure it out sooner.
Also take comfort that no matter how bad things get, you could always just go somewhere else and start fresh.
>>767859311
unlikely, because "god" is a human made concept. there definitely is something out there but it's not a god. maybe you have sent yourself down here as a higher being, but that doesn't make you a god.
>>767858890
>areas responsible for processing the senses and conscious thinking showed no activity
If they saw things that happened, and you're trying to imply that the physical nature of the brain is responsible for the processing of the senses, or conscious thinking, when previously you said that consciousness doesn't need a brain to exist.
You said that consciousness doesn't need a brain to exist. It them seems redundant that a brain has parts responsible for processing the senses and conscious thinking itself. Additionally, if they saw things that happened, and the brain is still important somehow in the fashion you just described, then it must be that the parts responsible for processing sensory information and conscious thought were not dead or devoid of activity. The brain is an incredibly powerful tool. I am a witness to that. And I will stress this: brain dead individuals do not recover. They -are- dead. Those in a coma are in a coma, because the brain has suffered damage and shuts itself down in an attempt to heal itself. The worst case scenarios are brain damage. Often, there's little to no damage at all. If your brain is intact, and you're suggesting you need an intact brain to recall experiences, then of course an intact brain would be able to remember things that aren't missing. But you said that consciousness doesn't need a brain to exist. Meaning being aware, being aware of what it is like to be, should not be necessitated by the brain. Thus, the intention "to do" should not be necessitated by the brain as far as the phenomenon described as cognitive processes go. You should be able to remember and witness things when you are "out of your body". With metaphysical consciousness, if the brain is needed for recall, then you need to be experiencing things while you are incapacitated using your brain.
You cite me at least one thorough source depicting someone coming back from being genuinely brain dead.
>>767859990
>If they saw things that happened
If they saw things that happened, and you're trying to imply that the physical nature of the brain is responsible for the processing of the senses, or conscious thinking, when previously you said that consciousness doesn't need a brain to exist, then something is wrong.*
>>767847535
This
>>767859809
It is a human made concept, but how does that refute my point? I didn't mean specifically abrahamic and anthropomorphic Gods, I was referring to anything powerful to mess around with humans risk-free. It's a baseless speculation but the chances are there.
