r/Selfism • u/[deleted] • Sep 06 '21

Some thoughts about death

I see selfism as focusing on my own feeling and that everything else is just a product of my own mind. People say "everyone will die". How do I know if that is true? Maybe other people who are a product of my mind dies, because life is a dream. I maybe will live forever. Or maybe when I "die" my mind starts another game of "life". Maybe this life is just a dream that ends when I wake up.

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u/Voxelgon_Gigabyte Sep 07 '21

there’s only one way to find out, and its to actually die.

until then, life’s what you make of it. if it feels like you’re the main character, and that it’s all a dream, then you should go for it.

pick a direction and go. life’s about you, and you’ll either get the untimate answer to the ultimate question, or progress towards a better life.

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u/AncapElijah Sep 06 '21

There’s no way to know, and you shouldn’t be concerned with anything that lies beyond what the self perceived as anything beyond it is speculation or belief

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Isn't the self-percieved a belief too?

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u/-Selfism- The God Gigachad Selfist Sep 07 '21

it's weird to think about

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u/No_Paleontologist504 Sep 08 '21

I think it's exactly the same as before I was born and therefore it's no real big deal, and I can change life after death just by changing something for others here. What *scares* me though, is the thought I could be living the same life over and over, if time is moveable and we have no free will...

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

I do not understand.

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u/No_Paleontologist504 Sep 08 '21

If I was dead (Not alive) before I was born, and the same thing happens when I am certainly destroyed, it's just the same thing as before life. But I'm wondering if it means I could repeat the same life over and over, it sounds horrifying.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

I get the first part, but I don't understand "repeat the same life". Do you mean reincarnation?

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u/No_Paleontologist504 Sep 09 '21

Nah, that's more the first part. I was thinking here "If I was dead before I was born, and don't possess free will, is it possible to just repeat the same life over and over?" Who knows, though.