"You've already been dead for 4.5 billion years." 馃憡
4 months ago 路 馃憤 kjn, lykso, november, comatoast, emk
@marginalia: Alot of things could be said about a lot of other things, but, that's not really what ovservation tells me. 路 4 months ago
@marginalia I'm not sure who made the observation first, but certainly not the guy I heard it from. I heard it on a podcast with Naval (which was actually really good): https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/naval-ravikant/ 路 4 months ago
@comatoast It could be argued our lives are like cresting waves on the ocean. Noumenally expressions of the same grand entity, only appearing different in our limited phenomenal experience of existence. 路 4 months ago
@martin Is that Lucretius I detect? 路 4 months ago
This is such a great argument against theology, lol. Like where were we before we were born? We've already been dead once and it wasn't anything remarkable. 路 4 months ago
@tskaalgard Yeah, it's a bit mindblowing when you really think about it, but certainly helps put our tiny, very temporary existence into perfect context. There's really no sense in not living the life you want, however crazy it may be, when the end, just like all the time before, will absolutely eclipse it all anyway. It's an oddly comforting realisation. 路 4 months ago
I actually came to this realization last month and it's really helped alleviate my health anxiety. I've already been dead. I've been dead for longer than I've been alive. I was dead for billions of years before I was born. 路 4 months ago