Insight Into Our Greatest Fear

[r0ckyreed]

I just had an insight into what I think is the universal deepest fear and that is Eternity. I got this idea from watching Sartre’s No Exit play and the Good Place. Eternity robs life of all meaning. Death in a way is our salvation and escape from eternal boredom. I think there comes a point when our soul reaches the “I’m done” moment and wants to experience reality from a different perspective. Imagine that if your consciousness was locked into the human form forever, you as God would get tired of that. God cannot be omniscient if it blocks itself off from experiencing everything that isn’t human. This is why I think reincarnation might be true. Reincarnation is like beating one video game to play another. But eternity goes deeper than boredom. One of the reasons why people kill themselves is because they believe their depression will last forever, which of course is a self-deception. You born and die in self-deception.

What do you think? Do you think eternity is our greatest fear? Of course a counter argument is that we wouldn’t fear everlasting, eternal happiness. But I would argue that even happiness would lose meaning without the experience of other contrasting emotions.

[Bazooka Jesus]

I remember that when I was a little kid, I was absolutely flabbergasted when I learned that there are people who would give anything to be able to live forever. Even back then, the prospect of having to spend all of eternity in this present form seemed to me like the most horrific fate imaginable - bar none!

Luckily, God is smarted than that. HALLELUJAH.

1 hour ago, r0ckyreed said:

But I would argue that even happiness would lose meaning without the experience of other contrasting emotions.

Exactly. Can't experience something without its opposite. ☯️

Hallelujah again!

[Hojo]

thats what life is for you were scared of eternity and now you aren't. You cured yourself. Now doing all the cool things you already did sounds awesome

Edited November 12, 2023 by Hojo

[Razard86]

5 hours ago, r0ckyreed said:

I just had an insight into what I think is the universal deepest fear and that is Eternity. I got this idea from watching Sartre’s No Exit play and the Good Place. Eternity robs life of all meaning. Death in a way is our salvation and escape from eternal boredom. I think there comes a point when our soul reaches the “I’m done” moment and wants to experience reality from a different perspective. Imagine that if your consciousness was locked into the human form forever, you as God would get tired of that. God cannot be omniscient if it blocks itself off from experiencing everything that isn’t human. This is why I think reincarnation might be true. Reincarnation is like beating one video game to play another. But eternity goes deeper than boredom. One of the reasons why people kill themselves is because they believe their depression will last forever, which of course is a self-deception. You born and die in self-deception.

What do you think? Do you think eternity is our greatest fear? Of course a counter argument is that we wouldn’t fear everlasting, eternal happiness. But I would argue that even happiness would lose meaning without the experience of other contrasting emotions.

I don't disagree with anything here, I'll also say we don't like being the same is in alignment with this. Ever part of God aims to be unique, because it is unique. So its design, its functionality, points to what it WILLS ITSELF TO BE. So God loves difference. Too bad difference is the cause of all conflict. Its a catch 22. But since God loves conflict and drama, its no problem LOL.

Can't have a compelling story without drama.

[strangelooper]

41 minutes ago, Razard86 said:

I don't disagree with anything here, I'll also say we don't like being the same is in alignment with this. Ever part of God aims to be unique, because it is unique. So its design, its functionality, points to what it WILLS ITSELF TO BE. So God loves difference. Too bad difference is the cause of all conflict. Its a catch 22. But since God loves conflict and drama, its no problem LOL.

Can't have a compelling story without drama.

God also loves lack of difference and god loves lack of conflict and drama, Saying god loves something is kinda pointless because god loves everything. There are realities where everyone is Razard86, literally the same body.

Edited November 12, 2023 by strangelooper

[Razard86]

1 hour ago, strangelooper said:

God also loves lack of difference and god loves lack of conflict and drama, Saying god loves something is kinda pointless because god loves everything. There are realities where everyone is Razard86, literally the same body.

Yeah....its called DEATH. Hello ME!!

 

Edited November 12, 2023 by Razard86

[r0ckyreed]

So I guess it seems like I made a genuine insight into the nature of our ultimate fear. Nobody seems to disagree, so I take that as my assessment of eternity being our ultimate as being 100% accurate.

[Razard86]

2 hours ago, r0ckyreed said:

So I guess it seems like I made a genuine insight into the nature of our ultimate fear. Nobody seems to disagree, so I take that as my assessment of eternity being our ultimate as being 100% accurate.

Well I wouldn't call it fear, because literally God is invulnerable. Does a game designer fear how he constructs his game? Only if he forgets its a game. So I wouldn't call it a fear unless you are talking from the character point of view. Also Death is the destruction of all meaning because Death is ONENESS. 

Notice that Enlightenment also is the realization of ONENESS which also destroys all meaning. So yeah in one sense death creates meaning because life is limited. But the only reason eternity destroys all meaning is because eternity IS DEATH. If you are eternal and cannot be killed, then technically you are already dead. You can't kill what is already dead. God is unkillable because God is death itself. We call form life, we call limitation life, so if God ever created an unlimited form that cannot be killed God would be the walking dead. LOL.

Edited November 13, 2023 by Razard86

[An young being]

On 12/11/2023 at 8:32 PM, r0ckyreed said:

I just had an insight into what I think is the universal deepest fear and that is Eternity. I got this idea from watching Sartre’s No Exit play and the Good Place. Eternity robs life of all meaning. Death in a way is our salvation and escape from eternal boredom. I think there comes a point when our soul reaches the “I’m done” moment and wants to experience reality from a different perspective. Imagine that if your consciousness was locked into the human form forever, you as God would get tired of that. God cannot be omniscient if it blocks itself off from experiencing everything that isn’t human. This is why I think reincarnation might be true. Reincarnation is like beating one video game to play another. But eternity goes deeper than boredom. One of the reasons why people kill themselves is because they believe their depression will last forever, which of course is a self-deception. You born and die in self-deception.

What do you think? Do you think eternity is our greatest fear? Of course a counter argument is that we wouldn’t fear everlasting, eternal happiness. But I would argue that even happiness would lose meaning without the experience of other contrasting emotions.

Eternity of the soul is the best thing ever! But eternity of memories isn't that great though.

[gettoefl]

there is no price-tag too high for the ego to garner one more day on this planet

go to a hospice and talk to folks

or ask any billionaire on their death bed

ego's programming is to be here tomorrow not today

how matters not, now matters not