bitofftoomuch
hold onto those who accept your messy self
- Jul 1, 2024
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Something I've realized is all humans love forgetting.
Sure, we feel stress when we face or anticipate *consequences* of forgetting, but I'd argue that's either internally because we remember, or purely external.
The drugs given to people in intensive surgeries are about making you forget.
Studies on the benefits of REM sleep show it's tied to helping us forget stressors.
There is literally a saying "I drink to forget".
Anyways, something I've realized is that total oblivion is permanently forgetting. And that birth in another world is also that. Whether the afterlife is nothing, or a new life entirely, it wipes our earthly feelings out.
I realize this may not work if you believe your afterlife is defined by judgment of your current life. But as a secular agnostic I find this line of reasoning comforting. Whatever is waiting for us, I don't think what we did matters. because the fact is we all did our best.
Sure, we feel stress when we face or anticipate *consequences* of forgetting, but I'd argue that's either internally because we remember, or purely external.
The drugs given to people in intensive surgeries are about making you forget.
Studies on the benefits of REM sleep show it's tied to helping us forget stressors.
There is literally a saying "I drink to forget".
Anyways, something I've realized is that total oblivion is permanently forgetting. And that birth in another world is also that. Whether the afterlife is nothing, or a new life entirely, it wipes our earthly feelings out.
I realize this may not work if you believe your afterlife is defined by judgment of your current life. But as a secular agnostic I find this line of reasoning comforting. Whatever is waiting for us, I don't think what we did matters. because the fact is we all did our best.
