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@Raptorsin7 I'm scared shitless of death. So terrified of it. I don't know how to face it or embrace it. @Fearless_Bum how do you know that death is the ultimate relaxation?

Yes its related to death. I have anxious thoughts about death.

We can use the phrase "the absence of everything" to refer to the absence of everything, can't we? However, the thought experiment of trying to arrive at nothing(ness) by removing everything in succession becomes illogical at the final step: …The last thing is removed, and then there is no thing (nothing) anymore. For the removal of things is a temporal process, and the expression "and then" presupposes a temporal order or structure in terms of before (earlier) and after (later) that would contradictorily continue to exist even after everything has ceased to be. The very idea of there being nothing after there being something, or of there being nothing now is self-contradictory, because there can be no time when nothing exists, or a time after or later than all the times when something existed. There aren't any possible temporal relations such as temporal posteriority between nonbeing and being; so the process of removing things from the world couldn't possibly result in an absent world, but in an empty world at most. And, of course, an empty world or spacetime (* is still something rather than nothing—like an empty canvas. (* "empty" in the sense of "devoid of, unoccupied by matter and energy")

Not possible. Something always existed. That's the only logical possibility.

Well, there has to be a Fundamental Existent, X, because nonexistence cannot be. Thus it is mandatory and it is all there is, as the simplest partless and continuous state. There's no 'empty' or 'Nothing'.. As an a blank slate. It's always something. Even if we agree to call it "nothing". It's still not a zero.

Accept your suffering. That's the only way out. Everyone is going to suffer at some point in their life. That's inevitable. no matter what you think, you are going to suffer. For years. You'll feel insecure and weird and dull. There will be a war inside you that will sometimes lead you to the brink of madness. You'll be hopeless, not knowing what to do. You will want to go back to a normal life, and find that it's impossible. And you'll have to live with the terrible fear that you are completely wrong. You'll be lost between two worlds, belonging to neither of them. Maybe for a long, long time. And the message is that it's ok. It's a okay to suffer sometimes. This is the truth and nothing but the truth. Feel free to love me or attack me. I don't care. All I care about is spitting some raw truth.

What reasons do you have to go on living? What gives your life meaning and purpose?

@Iesu I don't understand what you are talking about.

Well it started happening about a year ago. For no apparent reason.

Well it does because you are not resisting reality. You are not perpetuating the problem by resistance.

No I didn't have it as a kid. And no I didn't experience trauma as a kid.

It's general. Doesn't come about certain things. It's a tension in my chest and heart area.

Hmm.. Anxiety.

@Javfly33 are you feeling suicidal often?

@NahmStress ,Anguish ,Sadness, Pain, Depression, Anxiety. Etc are all examples of suffering Suffering can come In different flavors. Sometimes physical and sometimes emotional. In this thread I'm talking about emotional suffering.

@Javfly33 why is suicide bad? Nope. Mostly it's out of your control.

Thanks for your honesty.

It seems to me that time travel is not possible, because time does not exist, outside of a concept. All that there was in the past, is right here right now and all that will be, is right here right now. If you could travel at the speed of light and look at the earth, it would have the same effect as a photograph, there would be no movement and the light would appear to be frozen. When we look a light from a distant galaxy, it takes many light years to get here, so it could be said that we are looking into the past, but the reality is, we are seeing the light which is right here right now. Just wanted to start a general discussion on time travel and everyone's theories or opinions on all topics regarding this - including, but not limited to paradoxes, possibilities, application, favorite time travel movies, etc.

Could you explain why? How is It both?

@Vibroverse and.... how do you know?

@Shin are you dreaming or awake right now and how do you know?

I do wonder how much human beings have learned through the pandemic and various lockdowns, individually and as groups. That is because life was turned upside down and the pandemic is not over, with it being hard to know to what extent it will go on. It is has lead to so much suffering and misery for so many people. Personally, as far as I know, I have not had the virus and don't know that many people who have been really ill with it. I struggled with lockdowns, especially the long one which came in England after Christmas. I have not worked for over a year and had to move twice but I am sure that so many people had to endure so much more. In England, there are so many more people living on the streets than ever. But, my question is what has been learned? I feel that I had so much time for reflection and do think that I am a bit different from before, because I used to take a lot for granted previously. Some people may be experiencing devastating effects of the last year still psychologically. Do you feel that it has made a big impact on your life and those you know, negatively or as a learning curve? I also wonder what humanity has learned. In terms of the virus it affected rich and poor equally. However, the effects of the whole situation is likely to have impacted on different groups and populations differently. I wonder whether it has been a wake up call and whether there will be any real differences in the world. It may be too early to know for sure. Will it make leaders and others more able to see social problems like poverty and homelessness, as well as Mr Climate Change(but he has his own threads)? What do you think? Or, do think it will not make much difference in the larger scheme?

@Blackhawk stay strong brother.

No they are not the same thing. I think this should be obvious enough to point out.

Is there even such a distinction? We go to bed at night and dream that we are some dream character in some dream world.. We might wake up from that dream to find ourselves in another dream. A dream within a dream within a dream. The imagination has no end. What we call the real existing reality is just a layer of imagination that we have temporarily formed an attachment to. And hence it becomes a construct of imagination.