NaturalBornNEET
俺は絶対にセックスになるんだ
- Feb 22, 2022
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By death I mean the atheist cop-out idea of the cessation of consciousness, i.e. the void of nothingness
All concepts of the afterlife in every which religion can be interpreted as metaphors for life here on earth. Hell is the illusion of separation from God and its creations (God being you, the fundamental ground of reality that creates and unites all its creations/manifestations) which ultimately presents itself as negative feelings. Heaven is the experience of union with your fragmented pieces, which can be either the union of some of your pieces (e.g. intimacy with a loved one, enjoying good food) or union with all of your pieces (mystical experiences).
Reincarnation is real too, but it is not just something that happens when your human body dies, that's just one metaphor for a process that is constantly happening, infinite shapeshifting of the forms within your field of experience. Every passing thought, feeling, sensation, scene, experience into the next is a micro-reincarnation "Escaping samsara" is awakening to the non-dual nature of all these forms, that everything you experience is an incarnation of the unifying source which is the singularity of consciousness. Leading to an absence of all fear and desire (how can you yearn after what you never lacked?)
But it's pretty simple to talk about the metaphors within religions' interpretations of the afterlife, but to the main point of this thread. Will your consciousness cease when your physical body dies? I see no reason to believe so; it makes more sense to believe this consciousness, the one thing you've never not experienced within a lifetime of constant separation from the objects of consciousness, will suddenly extinguish the moment this brain shuts off for good, why would my brain be any different from the millions of other objects that can disappear in the presence of my consciousness and not cause that consciousness to die with it. Do you see how self centered such thinking is, I think belief in death is wholly an emotional thing, we're simply too attached to our human selves that we can't imagine reality without it.
Another thing I can appeal to other than the unshakeable AMness of consciousness is the magnitude of the universe. It intuitively makes more sense that a universe so full of potential experiences would make the conscious experiencer of itself able to experience it in its entirety through a system such as reincarnation. "No, your personal consciousness ends with your physical death, and the rest of the universe is experienced through the consciousness of all its other inhabitants until they too die" some believe. But this ignores the truth of all perceived dualities being illusions, that existence is fundamentally a single entity. This means even the distinction of different conscious observers is arbitrary and ultimately untenable. All that is happening is happening within consciousness and consciousness is right here right now, the you reading this and the whole field you're experiencing this in.
On the contrary: life doesn't exist, you have always and will always be dead in the same way your cup is dead. The category of living organism is a fabrication. You are an infinitely shaped fabric contorting itself into infinite self-referential configurations, playing a puppet show with itself to itself; embroidering itself with recondite patterns that all point back to itself.
tl;dr: death is just metamorphosis, with the single thing not changing being the witness consciousness of this eternal cycle of shape-shifting, which is both the witness and the witnessed.
I know this will be bitter to think of for many here, and in the end these are just the words of a young dumb human desperate for meaning and who wanted to make a provocative post. But I don't think it has to be a sad thing, ultimately why we're all here are because of conditions that torture us, not out of a dislike for existence itself, that's like mistaking the pollution for the sky. So I'm not discounting the decision to CTB (that would be hypocritical), but just affirming that through death will also come the death of the conditions that have blighted one their whole life (hopefully). I just don't think death is the final end.
All concepts of the afterlife in every which religion can be interpreted as metaphors for life here on earth. Hell is the illusion of separation from God and its creations (God being you, the fundamental ground of reality that creates and unites all its creations/manifestations) which ultimately presents itself as negative feelings. Heaven is the experience of union with your fragmented pieces, which can be either the union of some of your pieces (e.g. intimacy with a loved one, enjoying good food) or union with all of your pieces (mystical experiences).
Reincarnation is real too, but it is not just something that happens when your human body dies, that's just one metaphor for a process that is constantly happening, infinite shapeshifting of the forms within your field of experience. Every passing thought, feeling, sensation, scene, experience into the next is a micro-reincarnation "Escaping samsara" is awakening to the non-dual nature of all these forms, that everything you experience is an incarnation of the unifying source which is the singularity of consciousness. Leading to an absence of all fear and desire (how can you yearn after what you never lacked?)
But it's pretty simple to talk about the metaphors within religions' interpretations of the afterlife, but to the main point of this thread. Will your consciousness cease when your physical body dies? I see no reason to believe so; it makes more sense to believe this consciousness, the one thing you've never not experienced within a lifetime of constant separation from the objects of consciousness, will suddenly extinguish the moment this brain shuts off for good, why would my brain be any different from the millions of other objects that can disappear in the presence of my consciousness and not cause that consciousness to die with it. Do you see how self centered such thinking is, I think belief in death is wholly an emotional thing, we're simply too attached to our human selves that we can't imagine reality without it.
Another thing I can appeal to other than the unshakeable AMness of consciousness is the magnitude of the universe. It intuitively makes more sense that a universe so full of potential experiences would make the conscious experiencer of itself able to experience it in its entirety through a system such as reincarnation. "No, your personal consciousness ends with your physical death, and the rest of the universe is experienced through the consciousness of all its other inhabitants until they too die" some believe. But this ignores the truth of all perceived dualities being illusions, that existence is fundamentally a single entity. This means even the distinction of different conscious observers is arbitrary and ultimately untenable. All that is happening is happening within consciousness and consciousness is right here right now, the you reading this and the whole field you're experiencing this in.
On the contrary: life doesn't exist, you have always and will always be dead in the same way your cup is dead. The category of living organism is a fabrication. You are an infinitely shaped fabric contorting itself into infinite self-referential configurations, playing a puppet show with itself to itself; embroidering itself with recondite patterns that all point back to itself.
tl;dr: death is just metamorphosis, with the single thing not changing being the witness consciousness of this eternal cycle of shape-shifting, which is both the witness and the witnessed.
I know this will be bitter to think of for many here, and in the end these are just the words of a young dumb human desperate for meaning and who wanted to make a provocative post. But I don't think it has to be a sad thing, ultimately why we're all here are because of conditions that torture us, not out of a dislike for existence itself, that's like mistaking the pollution for the sky. So I'm not discounting the decision to CTB (that would be hypocritical), but just affirming that through death will also come the death of the conditions that have blighted one their whole life (hopefully). I just don't think death is the final end.
