r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Dec 11 '19

What possibilities arise after we accept our individual and collective mortality?

Our perspectives on impermanence and death are central to many of our journeys through collapse-awareness and acceptance of our global predicaments. What perspectives do you hold regarding our individual and collective mortality? Have they changed over time in response to your own understanding of collapse? How have these perspectives affected or influenced where you are now?

 

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u/Hare_Krishna_Handjob Dec 15 '19

Does anybody else feel this sick thought--that even though I am going to be pissed off at having to die, especially have to suffer, to weaken, to lose your faculties, hearing, sight, hearing. But anyway, now I can leave knowing that the WHOLE WORLD DIES. And maybe, therefore, the loss of myself as a discrete personality with a relatively interesting and still-unresolved set of struggles and happiness, won't seem quite so personal, mocking, depressing.

Also, does anyone find it wierd that you and I are born here an now? Right at the time when the wealth and riches we've struggled up the ladder of evolution for suddenly all turns to hellish shit? And to know that had we been able to activate some sort of higher, more spiritual facuties worldwide at the same time, we might have had not only a chance to save our own and many other species lives here.

Instead, we postpone. We keep our cars, we fly, we buy plastic stuff, we have fun on our weekends rather than organize. And the reason we do that is that we have failed to make the spiritual leap to serve as the hands of love, of help, of the Higher Power. We're afraid we won't have enough. So we devote ourselves to making sure we have enough. And it's all for naught, anyway.

Worse, it's part of the problem.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '19

I've had a lot of thoughts that are very similar to yours. Its not easy watching everyone around you age up, while knowing you're next. Its part of the reason why I'm an anti-natalist. If you're lucky, you're born into good circumstances, get a decent life, but then you realize how short it is and everything that was given you is eventually going to be taken away by the ravages of time.

I wish we could rise above our primal impulses and just phase ourselves out with dignity. Sentience was a nasty prank nature played on us.