Can your brain comprehend death?

[BigBallsLarry]

Ever since birth, the only thing you have experienced is being alive. Think about it. Every experience you've ever had has one thing in common - you were alive to experience it.

When you're in a boxing match, and the opponent knocks you out, leading to a blackout.. you only know that happened because you woke up. If you didn't wake up, what then?

Same way as being knocked out, sleeping is also very easy to imagine. You fall asleep, lose consciouness, and then wake up. But in death, you don't wake up.

So what do you imagine when someone tells you to 'imagine being dead'? Is it floating in darkness? Is is heaven or reincarnation? Maybe endless sleep or infinite void? Either way, everything you imagine still has you in it. What you're imagining is still being concious, so in the end, can your brain even begin to comprehend the concept of death?

This exact topic is the reason why people find comfort in religions or have panic attacks over the thought of being dead. Religions tell you that there's something after death. Whether it's valhalla or heaven, ascension or reincarnation, there's always SOMETHING - like being knocked out, and waking up again. It's something you can imagine, because it ends up with you being conscious, which is why it's comfortable.

Death being unimaginable is one of my favorite things to think about. And i'm not the only one.

Humans have tried to solve death for thousands of years and yet it's the one thing we still have no anwsers about. Billions of people died in history and we still have nothing. We solved electricity, diseases, physics, geology, chemistry, we've split a fucking atom and yet the most common thing in the world - death - is where we're forced to draw a line.


@TechnoBoss @Jason Voorhees @enchanted_elixir @Thinking_CEL @Gargantuan

 

[iamnotaracist]

No and Yes. A simple answer is that your brain can comprehend that it can't work during death, which it can't so it can't comprehend.

 

[Aven]

On some philisopher shit DNR

 

[recessed.infras]

Ever since birth, the only thing you have experienced is being alive. Think about it. Every experience you've ever had has one thing in common - you were alive to experience it.

When you're in a boxing match, and the opponent knocks you out, leading to a blackout.. you only know that happened because you woke up. If you didn't wake up, what then?

Same way as being knocked out, sleeping is also very easy to imagine. You fall asleep, lose consciouness, and then wake up. But in death, you don't wake up.

So what do you imagine when someone tells you to 'imagine being dead'? Is it floating in darkness? Is is heaven or reincarnation? Maybe endless sleep or infinite void? Either way, everything you imagine still has you in it. What you're imagining is still being concious, so in the end, can your brain even begin to comprehend the concept of death?

This exact topic is the reason why people find comfort in religions or have panic attacks over the thought of being dead. Religions tell you that there's something after death. Whether it's valhalla or heaven, ascension or reincarnation, there's always SOMETHING - like being knocked out, and waking up again. It's something you can imagine, because it ends up with you being conscious, which is why it's comfortable.

Death being unimaginable is one of my favorite things to think about. And i'm not the only one.

Humans have tried to solve death for thousands of years and yet it's the one thing we still have no anwsers about. Billions of people died in history and we still have nothing. We solved electricity, diseases, physics, geology, chemistry, we've split a fucking atom and yet the most common thing in the world - death - is where we're forced to draw a line.


@TechnoBoss @Jason Voorhees @enchanted_elixir @Thinking_CEL @Gargantuan

really cool way to think abt it nice thread

 

[BigBallsLarry]

No and Yes. A simple answer is that your brain can comprehend that it can't work during death, which it can't so it can't comprehend.

Good point.

 

[BeanCelll]

My shot in the dark is that it's just the exact same shit I felt before the second I was born but who knows

 

[filthycurrycel]

Ever since birth, the only thing you have experienced is being alive. Think about it. Every experience you've ever had has one thing in common - you were alive to experience it.

When you're in a boxing match, and the opponent knocks you out, leading to a blackout.. you only know that happened because you woke up. If you didn't wake up, what then?

Same way as being knocked out, sleeping is also very easy to imagine. You fall asleep, lose consciouness, and then wake up. But in death, you don't wake up.

So what do you imagine when someone tells you to 'imagine being dead'? Is it floating in darkness? Is is heaven or reincarnation? Maybe endless sleep or infinite void? Either way, everything you imagine still has you in it. What you're imagining is still being concious, so in the end, can your brain even begin to comprehend the concept of death?

This exact topic is the reason why people find comfort in religions or have panic attacks over the thought of being dead. Religions tell you that there's something after death. Whether it's valhalla or heaven, ascension or reincarnation, there's always SOMETHING - like being knocked out, and waking up again. It's something you can imagine, because it ends up with you being conscious, which is why it's comfortable.

Death being unimaginable is one of my favorite things to think about. And i'm not the only one.

Humans have tried to solve death for thousands of years and yet it's the one thing we still have no anwsers about. Billions of people died in history and we still have nothing. We solved electricity, diseases, physics, geology, chemistry, we've split a fucking atom and yet the most common thing in the world - death - is where we're forced to draw a line.


@TechnoBoss @Jason Voorhees @enchanted_elixir @Thinking_CEL @Gargantuan

That's the point tbh, there is nothing to think of cause there's no one to observe it.
nice writing

 

[BigBallsLarry]

My shot in the dark is that it's just the exact same shit I felt before the second I was born but who knows

and what did you feel before you were born?

 

[BeanCelll]

and what did you feel before you were born?

Absolutely nothing, 0 sense of perception.

Although starting and ending something are inherently different so I'm open to the idea of being wrong

 

[BigBallsLarry]

Absolutely nothing, 0 sense of perception.

Although starting and ending something are inherently different so I'm open to the idea of being wrong

And the point is, that you can't comprehend feeling and percieving nothing.

 

[LowTierBateman]

No everytime i think about it my head feels weird

 

[Regret]

U just loose your consciousness and fell into an empty void of nothingness. Its pretty similar to deep sleep except for the fact u never wake up.

All the religious ppl only follow their religion coz it gives em a sense of hope and sentience. If a human accepts death as it is either he spirals into depression or he wins over himself completely

 

[Regret]

No everytime i think about it my head feels weird

Its ur low iq Brain telling u that ur dumb ahh can't comprehend this

 

[BeanCelll]

And the point is, that you can't comprehend feeling and percieving nothing.

All I can think of is anesthesia

 

[fearoffoids2.0]

So r

Ever since birth, the only thing you have experienced is being alive. Think about it. Every experience you've ever had has one thing in common - you were alive to experience it.

When you're in a boxing match, and the opponent knocks you out, leading to a blackout.. you only know that happened because you woke up. If you didn't wake up, what then?

Same way as being knocked out, sleeping is also very easy to imagine. You fall asleep, lose consciouness, and then wake up. But in death, you don't wake up.

So what do you imagine when someone tells you to 'imagine being dead'? Is it floating in darkness? Is is heaven or reincarnation? Maybe endless sleep or infinite void? Either way, everything you imagine still has you in it. What you're imagining is still being concious, so in the end, can your brain even begin to comprehend the concept of death?

This exact topic is the reason why people find comfort in religions or have panic attacks over the thought of being dead. Religions tell you that there's something after death. Whether it's valhalla or heaven, ascension or reincarnation, there's always SOMETHING - like being knocked out, and waking up again. It's something you can imagine, because it ends up with you being conscious, which is why it's comfortable.

Death being unimaginable is one of my favorite things to think about. And i'm not the only one.

Humans have tried to solve death for thousands of years and yet it's the one thing we still have no anwsers about. Billions of people died in history and we still have nothing. We solved electricity, diseases, physics, geology, chemistry, we've split a fucking atom and yet the most common thing in the world - death - is where we're forced to draw a line.


@TechnoBoss @Jason Voorhees @enchanted_elixir @Thinking_CEL @Gargantuan

so what your saying is religion is a coping mechanism? It does make sense especially for Christianity.

 

[BigBallsLarry]

All I can think of is anesthesia

And that's basically the same as my knockout comparison. You only know what anesthesia is like because you eventually wake up. If you never woke up, there'd never be a moment where you could say, "that was what unconsciousness felt like". Every example we use to imagine death ends with consciousness returning, which is exactly why it's so impossible to imagine death itself.

 

[fearoffoids2.0]

So r

Ever since birth, the only thing you have experienced is being alive. Think about it. Every experience you've ever had has one thing in common - you were alive to experience it.

When you're in a boxing match, and the opponent knocks you out, leading to a blackout.. you only know that happened because you woke up. If you didn't wake up, what then?

Same way as being knocked out, sleeping is also very easy to imagine. You fall asleep, lose consciouness, and then wake up. But in death, you don't wake up.

So what do you imagine when someone tells you to 'imagine being dead'? Is it floating in darkness? Is is heaven or reincarnation? Maybe endless sleep or infinite void? Either way, everything you imagine still has you in it. What you're imagining is still being concious, so in the end, can your brain even begin to comprehend the concept of death?

This exact topic is the reason why people find comfort in religions or have panic attacks over the thought of being dead. Religions tell you that there's something after death. Whether it's valhalla or heaven, ascension or reincarnation, there's always SOMETHING - like being knocked out, and waking up again. It's something you can imagine, because it ends up with you being conscious, which is why it's comfortable.

Death being unimaginable is one of my favorite things to think about. And i'm not the only one.

Humans have tried to solve death for thousands of years and yet it's the one thing we still have no anwsers about. Billions of people died in history and we still have nothing. We solved electricity, diseases, physics, geology, chemistry, we've split a fucking atom and yet the most common thing in the world - death - is where we're forced to draw a line.


@TechnoBoss @Jason Voorhees @enchanted_elixir @Thinking_CEL @Gargantuan

so what your saying is religion is a coping mechanism? It does make sense especially for Christianity.

 

[sub5_poopcel]

Ever since birth, the only thing you have experienced is being alive. Think about it. Every experience you've ever had has one thing in common - you were alive to experience it.

When you're in a boxing match, and the opponent knocks you out, leading to a blackout.. you only know that happened because you woke up. If you didn't wake up, what then?

Same way as being knocked out, sleeping is also very easy to imagine. You fall asleep, lose consciouness, and then wake up. But in death, you don't wake up.

So what do you imagine when someone tells you to 'imagine being dead'? Is it floating in darkness? Is is heaven or reincarnation? Maybe endless sleep or infinite void? Either way, everything you imagine still has you in it. What you're imagining is still being concious, so in the end, can your brain even begin to comprehend the concept of death?

This exact topic is the reason why people find comfort in religions or have panic attacks over the thought of being dead. Religions tell you that there's something after death. Whether it's valhalla or heaven, ascension or reincarnation, there's always SOMETHING - like being knocked out, and waking up again. It's something you can imagine, because it ends up with you being conscious, which is why it's comfortable.

Death being unimaginable is one of my favorite things to think about. And i'm not the only one.

Humans have tried to solve death for thousands of years and yet it's the one thing we still have no anwsers about. Billions of people died in history and we still have nothing. We solved electricity, diseases, physics, geology, chemistry, we've split a fucking atom and yet the most common thing in the world - death - is where we're forced to draw a line.


@TechnoBoss @Jason Voorhees @enchanted_elixir @Thinking_CEL @Gargantuan

Its a feeling of endless sleep but not aware of being in endless sleep

 

[BigBallsLarry]

So r

so what your saying is religion is a coping mechanism? It does make sense especially for Christianity.

The afterlife yes, i feel like the 'afterlife' is a tool mainly used to control people by saying 'do bad' = hell, 'do good' = heaven. And obviously the people controlling the religions are the ones to decide what's good and what isnt.

 

[ykls.]

Its ur low iq Brain telling u that ur dumb ahh can't comprehend this

No brain can comprehend death cause it need comparison what it doesnt have. Our brain only know existence but not non existence

 

[fearoffoids2.0]

The afterlife yes, i feel like the 'afterlife' is a tool mainly used to control people by saying 'do bad' = hell, 'do good' = heaven. And obviously the people controlling the religions are the ones to decide what's good and what isnt.

Yeah cuz i think Christianity was created to control the native Americans or slaves I can’t remember but it was one of them

 

[Regret]

So r

so what your saying is religion is a coping mechanism? It does make sense especially for Christianity.

Not only Christianity but evry religion .

Religion wre made as a tool to control people's action and make them slaves . All moral fags would rather die believing in " heaven " than to fight for themselves.

Almost every ancient ruler wre aethiest but they sorrounded themselves with priests and made churches to make themselves show as " le religious " so they can lead all the other religious fags .

 

[Sadist]

death is not an experience. exact same shit as before being born.

 

[ykls.]

Not only Christianity but evry religion .

Religion wre made as a tool to control people's action and make them slaves . All moral fags would rather die believing in " heaven " than to fight for themselves.

Almost every ancient ruler wre aethiest but they sorrounded themselves with priests and made churches to make themselves show as " le religious " so they can lead all the other religious fags .

How does this prove that religion is a coping mechanism.
Theologist studied religions for years, only for people to say bullshit like this

 

[Kaweco11]

"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And once it does come, we no longer exist."
-Epicurus

 

[Regret]

No brain can comprehend death

Exactly. We can't comprehend it

Just like in deep sleep u don't feel anything until someone wakes u up, coz ur consciousness gets low .
It can be interpreted that when u die ur concisousness dissapers completely and u fall into a void of nothingness.

 

[crypsis]

Why don't I die first and see what happens?

 

[BigBallsLarry]

Why don't I die first and see what happens?

would be a based reason to die honestly

 

[ykls.]

Exactly. We can't comprehend it
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Just like in deep sleep u don't feel anything until someone wakes u up, coz ur consciousness gets low .
It can be interpreted that when u die ur concisousness dissapers completely and u fall into a void of nothingness.

you cant comprehend death and you also cant interpret the state of being dead, only the process of shutting down

 

[arx]

Ever since birth, the only thing you have experienced is being alive. Think about it. Every experience you've ever had has one thing in common - you were alive to experience it.

When you're in a boxing match, and the opponent knocks you out, leading to a blackout.. you only know that happened because you woke up. If you didn't wake up, what then?

Same way as being knocked out, sleeping is also very easy to imagine. You fall asleep, lose consciouness, and then wake up. But in death, you don't wake up.

So what do you imagine when someone tells you to 'imagine being dead'? Is it floating in darkness? Is is heaven or reincarnation? Maybe endless sleep or infinite void? Either way, everything you imagine still has you in it. What you're imagining is still being concious, so in the end, can your brain even begin to comprehend the concept of death?

This exact topic is the reason why people find comfort in religions or have panic attacks over the thought of being dead. Religions tell you that there's something after death. Whether it's valhalla or heaven, ascension or reincarnation, there's always SOMETHING - like being knocked out, and waking up again. It's something you can imagine, because it ends up with you being conscious, which is why it's comfortable.

Death being unimaginable is one of my favorite things to think about. And i'm not the only one.

Humans have tried to solve death for thousands of years and yet it's the one thing we still have no anwsers about. Billions of people died in history and we still have nothing. We solved electricity, diseases, physics, geology, chemistry, we've split a fucking atom and yet the most common thing in the world - death - is where we're forced to draw a line.


@TechnoBoss @Jason Voorhees @enchanted_elixir @Thinking_CEL @Gargantuan

Usually I just think of nothing, because death is literally nothing.

Your neutrons stop firing and then it just goes *pew* and then there’s nothing

That’s what I comprehend about death

it’s just a end of a cycle

 

[tomacōck]

Atheistic death as a concept is flawed

Why don't I die first and see what happens?

Exactly why I considered suicide as a kid

 

[BigBallsLarry]

Atheistic death as a concept is flawed

why?

 

[tomacōck]

why?

Too long to explain and I'm busy

 

[Regret]

How does this prove that religion is a coping mechanism.
Theologist studied religions for years, only for people to say bullshit like this

Ofcourse religions have some decent aspects like morality n kindness.

But the truth is boyo almost all the religious leaders are never religious. Not a single human on earth is a " pure christian ".

And ur low iq ass doesn't have its own thinking skills ,muhh theologist . Meanwhile u don't know shit about it only reason theologist believe in religion/god is coz it gives them a sense of hope and faith on a transcendial entity that'll fix evrything.

U can observe that almost all the religions ppl are " happier" than "aethiest" coz they believe god is protecting em.

Meanwhile it all is just cope.
Something bad can happen to u , u can either say " it is what it is " and accept it or cope like " something bad happened to me , now god will reward me with something better" and get instant happiness.

It's a matter of your beliefs.

 

[arx]

I love this video

 

[ICXCLuvr]

Ever since birth, the only thing you have experienced is being alive. Think about it. Every experience you've ever had has one thing in common - you were alive to experience it.

When you're in a boxing match, and the opponent knocks you out, leading to a blackout.. you only know that happened because you woke up. If you didn't wake up, what then?

Same way as being knocked out, sleeping is also very easy to imagine. You fall asleep, lose consciouness, and then wake up. But in death, you don't wake up.

So what do you imagine when someone tells you to 'imagine being dead'? Is it floating in darkness? Is is heaven or reincarnation? Maybe endless sleep or infinite void? Either way, everything you imagine still has you in it. What you're imagining is still being concious, so in the end, can your brain even begin to comprehend the concept of death?

This exact topic is the reason why people find comfort in religions or have panic attacks over the thought of being dead. Religions tell you that there's something after death. Whether it's valhalla or heaven, ascension or reincarnation, there's always SOMETHING - like being knocked out, and waking up again. It's something you can imagine, because it ends up with you being conscious, which is why it's comfortable.

Death being unimaginable is one of my favorite things to think about. And i'm not the only one.

Humans have tried to solve death for thousands of years and yet it's the one thing we still have no anwsers about. Billions of people died in history and we still have nothing. We solved electricity, diseases, physics, geology, chemistry, we've split a fucking atom and yet the most common thing in the world - death - is where we're forced to draw a line.


@TechnoBoss @Jason Voorhees @enchanted_elixir @Thinking_CEL @Gargantuan

Yeah

 

[esoterik]

can you comprehend what there was before you were alive?

 

[ykls.]

Ofcourse religions have some decent aspects like morality n kindness.

But the truth is boyo almost all the religious leaders are never religious. Not a single human on earth is a " pure christian ".

And ur low iq ass doesn't have its own thinking skills ,muhh theologist . Meanwhile u don't know shit about it only reason theologist believe in religion/god is coz it gives them a sense of hope and faith on a transcendial entity that'll fix evrything.

U can observe that almost all the religions ppl are " happier" than "aethiest" coz they believe god is protecting em.

Meanwhile it all is just cope.
Something bad can happen to u and u can either say " it is what it is " and accept it or cope like " something bad happened to me , now god will reward me with something better" ans get instant happiness.

It's a matter of your beliefs.

In christianity sense jesus was the only pure christian and we all are sinners and i dont even believe in religion, but most of your points are just flawed.
Like most religious leader are not even religious and with no proof and of course people abuse religion to gain power,wealth and other thing, doesnt mean that religion is a coping mechanism or not true
You are just the average tiktok atheist with no points but just your interpretation

 

[Regret]

In christianity sense jesus was the only pure christian and we all are sinners

Isn't it what i said ?

and i dont even believe in religion, but most of your points are just flawed.

U don't even believe in facts ur a low iq Faggot

Like most religious leader are not even religious
and with no proof and

Ohhhh . I think most of the religious leaders are millionaires and do every sin BTS

of course people abuse religion to gain power,wealth and other thing, doesnt mean that religion is a coping mechanism or not true

Boyo ur retard ass contradicted urself

You are just the average tiktok atheist with no points but just your interpretation

My all points are true , retard.

Heard about witch hunting in medieval Europe? I guess they did all that in name of religion. And retraded sheeps like u supported em.

Ur just a average iq Faggot with no thinking skills trying to debate a High T High iq bvll like me. I'm caging at ur low iq

 

[Gargantuan]

The brain itself is part of the temporary physical experience. It can only imagine the absence of its own activity, never actually experience it.
The thing is, consciousness continues beyond the body, which is well-established in many near-death experiences, and all ancient texts spoke about it too.

Death is more like a transition, not the end of experience. The real fear humans associate with death comes from identifying completely with the body and the ego, both of which are false.
Only once you shed those false identities does death begin to look less like annihilation and more like a doorway.

 

[AryanSchizo]

You should take some DMT
Atheists who took dmt recalled seeing some magical things that converted them into believing in God or a higher power
Crazy shit

 

[AryanSchizo]

The brain itself is part of the temporary physical experience. It can only imagine the absence of its own activity, never actually experience it.
The thing is, consciousness continues beyond the body, which is well-established in many near-death experiences, and all ancient texts spoke about it too.

Death is more like a transition, not the end of experience. The real fear humans associate with death comes from identifying completely with the body and the ego, both of which are false.
Only once you shed those false identities does death begin to look less like annihilation and more like a doorway.

Well said

 

[ykls.]

They'll are right u dumb retard

Ohhhh . I think most of the religious leaders are millionaires and do every sin BTS

Boyo ur retard ass contradicted urself

My all points are retards.

Heard about witch hunting in medieval Europe? I guess they did all that in name of religion. And retraded sheeps like u supported em.

Ur just a average iq Faggot with no thinking skills trying to debate a High T High iq bvll like me. I'm caging at ur low iq

What people do in the name of religion doesnt chsnge the fact if its real or not, okay you think most religious leader or billionaires do every sin and?
Yeah they sin and whats the point they will go to hell religious wise.
"religious" leader and billionaires are not believers but abuse it to gsin control and it doesnt prove that religion is not the truth

 

[AryanSchizo]

U just loose your consciousness and fell into an empty void of nothingness. Its pretty similar to deep sleep except for the fact u never wake up.

All the religious ppl only follow their religion coz it gives em a sense of hope and sentience. If a human accepts death as it is either he spirals into depression or he wins over himself completely

You’ll change your mind once your frontal lobe fully develops.

Or perhaps take DMT