What does anything matter
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Actor Harry Dean Stanton's recent Facebook status is a masterpiece on death.
"I'm 87 years old...I only eat so I can smoke and stay alive.. The only fear I have is how long consciousness is gonna hang on after my body goes. I just hope there's nothing. Like there was before I was born. I'm not really into religion, they're all macrocosms of the ego. When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.
The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.
Anybody else you've interviewed bring these things up? Hang on, I gotta take this call..... Hey, brother. That's great, man. Yeah, I'm being interviewed... We're talking about nothing. I've got him well-steeped in nothing right now. He's stopped asking questions."
https://m.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/22faml/actor_harry_dean_stantons_recent_facebook_status/
Me:
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Learning to die so I don't fear death is a life goal.
Last night in a dream, I died and found myself in an astral plane version of Tokyo and it was fifty years in the future. I was dead. I knew it. I was peaceful and content. I was part of a constant consistent stream of energy full of other dead people. I was a We. But I was able to have my own thoughts, like a wall. I could choose my appearance, my voice, my mind.
But here's the amusing bit: I still was braining with cerebral palsy and autism. It's my brain. The circuitry and energy and neurochemistry never changed after I died.
It was as though my brain's neurocircuitry survived my death, along with every neurotype, limitation, neurodeveopmentally disabled cluster.
I'm going to write a story. I'm going to hope it stays a short story.
Actor Harry Dean Stanton's recent Facebook status is a masterpiece on death.
"I'm 87 years old...I only eat so I can smoke and stay alive.. The only fear I have is how long consciousness is gonna hang on after my body goes. I just hope there's nothing. Like there was before I was born. I'm not really into religion, they're all macrocosms of the ego. When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.
The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.
Anybody else you've interviewed bring these things up? Hang on, I gotta take this call..... Hey, brother. That's great, man. Yeah, I'm being interviewed... We're talking about nothing. I've got him well-steeped in nothing right now. He's stopped asking questions."
https://m.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/22faml/actor_harry_dean_stantons_recent_facebook_status/
Me:
****
Learning to die so I don't fear death is a life goal.
Last night in a dream, I died and found myself in an astral plane version of Tokyo and it was fifty years in the future. I was dead. I knew it. I was peaceful and content. I was part of a constant consistent stream of energy full of other dead people. I was a We. But I was able to have my own thoughts, like a wall. I could choose my appearance, my voice, my mind.
But here's the amusing bit: I still was braining with cerebral palsy and autism. It's my brain. The circuitry and energy and neurochemistry never changed after I died.
It was as though my brain's neurocircuitry survived my death, along with every neurotype, limitation, neurodeveopmentally disabled cluster.
I'm going to write a story. I'm going to hope it stays a short story.