[Split]

I think that when you die, your consciousness fades away into nothing. You lose all your memories, characteristics, hopes, dreams, thoughts, feelings, electrical impulses... you cease to exist.

I feel like the fact that you, me, or anyone else has experienced consciousness on a human/ animal level is pretty insane... like the summation of all your neurons, chemical imbalances and brain cells happen to be labelled as you.

And that same idea is applied to every living thing that makes decisions, there is really an insane amount of life force out there. And by life force I just mean electrical signals generated by organisms.

So I mean, when you faded into consciousness at two years old, if you remember it.. what were you before? A smaller collection of synapses? More fragmented memories? More simple neural byproducts?



Idk... people get WAY too hung up on the idea of clinging to life. And if you spend your life as an existential mess, trying not to waste every second, or believing that it has already all gone to waste, then no doubt your life is gonna be shit.

And there's no saying what happens to life when it's gone. If death is entirely cellular, or metaphysical. Those two ideas contradict each other on so many levels.

Religion, philosophy, spirituality, are all efforts by people to stablilize their life and thinking and frame life in a way that lets them live it. I don't think that is dumb. If you have to leave a light on in the hall in order to fall asleep, maybe you should do that, and maybe people should realize it doesnt matter in the grand scheme of things. Or maybe not, and you just shouldnt take life so seriously it needs a frame of reference for you to bear living in it.

If you have to believe in God/ religious texts in order to live your life the way you want, then you should do that... people spreading religion are just trying to spread peace of mind.

And if you believe in God cos of undeniable proof that you have witnesses or something, that's legit too. I'm not gonna ridicule it out of you lol.


Either way... I'm not qualified to say if there is a god or driving force/ external starting point to our universe. I'd live my life pretty much the same way either way. And my thoughts on birth and death would stay the same.