Simple Cartesian logic. Stop existing —> stop experiencing existential pain.
It’s termed as existentialism for a reason.
I got engaged last month so I’m pretty sure they’re in a purse somewhere in the house.
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I don’t believe not existing is an option, from a spiritual point of view. However, you can leave the physical body behind.
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We didn’t exist before we existed, which implies that a reality where we don’t exist is a possibility.
Hey you two! Take it to the woo woo thread!
I’ll get us back on track.
Confession: weed recently became legal in my state. I smoked for the first time in 8+ months last week and just sat in my driveway listening to music for 2 hours. It was a good time.
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Does a Buddhist still exist as the same individual without previous memories?
Or so you have been told.
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Have our memories been wiped clean of every past life we’ve ever experienced? And are we even ourselves if we aren’t who we are? Is all human life interchangeable?
I realized my statement could be interpreted to be too theological. I was attempting to propose the idea that existence only began the instant you existed, and all stories of the past are merely fabrications created to lend credit to the notion of history existing. Decartes “evil demon” coming to play.
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I don’t know about a Buddhist, but I do think we still exist.
No.
I know all this woowoo shit triggers you, and I greatly appreciate your take on this shit.
I think we are energy, and according to The Law of Conservation of Energy is . . .
Really, it doesn’t. I watch a lot of old HK movies about reincarnation and karma and shit and they’re more mindboggling than time travel movies.
Wasn’t the original exchange really about consciousness?
See, there you go bringing me back to facts and shit. That’s not my strong point. I prefer to talk out my ass because my mouth knows better.
However, and there is always a however, I do think energy travels with you, if not consciousness. For example, my brother passed in 2001, my son was born in 2006. I see a lot of similarities between them. I thought I was projecting, but my parents and all of my friends see it as well.
Here is my brother as a five year old.
My son as a nine year old - I used a filter to make it black and white.
Consciousness, no. Energy, yes.
Virginia’s house of delegates unanimously voted down legalization. Such horseshit.
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I’m pretty sure that Buddhists don’t believe in an unchanging soul with rebirth. There’s something like a soul but it changes.
But reincarnation, like in Hinduism, has an unchanging soul called the atmon or something like that. (I might have mixed up rebirth and reincarnation, it’s been like 6 years since I first learned about it and never kept up with it)
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Yeah but maybe it’s a different thing, like once we exist we can’t just un-exist?
For how crazy this sounds, the craziest aspect to it is that it actually sounds plausible.
I mean, if they are “stories of the past,” it inherently means we can’t have experienced them ourselves. And if you weren’t there to see it, how can you even ensure that actually happened?
Lol every time I try and think about this stuff it just blows me away
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Don’t sweat it too much; the theory of relativity would have you believe that all of time has already happened and you are merely perceiving it unfold at the rate which you CAN perceive it. So you can rest assured that history DID occur.
And so did the future.
And you have no free will as a result.
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Yeah but it shouldn’t be too much of a concern since we’ll probably never perceive this lack of free will anyway
You will only perceive it if it is preordained that you will.
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