nitrogen
Schrödinger's cat
- Nov 5, 2019
- 339
Many folks on SS wrote that they don't believe in hell after death because the hot water they're in right now is already hell, that earth as we know it is already a living hell, that they're in a hell of their own making, that life is worse than any hell they could have imagined, etc. These reasons pop up again and again. Also, people post "you'll be in a better place soon" or something along that line on goodbye threads quite often.
Since nobody really knows what happens after death, nobody knows how CTB affects afterlife or the next life if there's one, and nobody has the whole picture of the objective reality, how do they make that leap of faith and believe they can't end up in a worse place than they're in right now?
There are "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns." Known unknowns are the questions we humans have raised but haven't found answers to. The unknown unknowns are the questions that nobody has even thought of asking yet - just like ants never wonder why quantum mechanics can't reconcile with general relativity. Due to the unknown unknowns, I'm forced to look at CTB from a risk management perspective. I've always been agnostic - I can't find enough empirical evidence to be 100% certain of anything but also can't discount any possibilities.
The situation that anybody is in seems can always get worse. Not to be pessimistic, but when my understanding of reality and the universe is limited, I'd have to consider the worst scenario and determine whether it's a state of existence I can bear. As a random example, what if "souls" do exist and can get stuck in a perpetual state of going through the agony of, say, being skinned alive if they died by CTB? That sounds worse than any form of disability, homelessness, poverty, losing loved ones.
So, do those folks romanticize or sugarcoat the unknown because such wishful thinking makes death more palatable? Or to strengthen the belief that CTB is a permanent solution to their problems? Or is it just a figure of speech for saying "my life sucks?"
Do they actually believe that the person who's about to CTB will be in a better place soon or is it like people saying "everything is gonna be fine" when they're in fact clueless and scared IRL? Or is it like saying a prayer?
Fear of the unknown is the hurdle I've been failing to jump over and deters me from "pulling the CTB trigger," so it baffles me how "the grass is greener on the other side" assumption caught on and became pervasive on SS. I wonder if it has to do with the manifestation of a common neurosis that dubious reasoning becomes more legitimate when more people with the same reasoning pile on, or if it's an example of people bias their interpretation of evidence and experience toward what they desire (which is a tendency that has been explored and confirmed by psychological science studies). Or maybe I'm really missing something. Feel free to enlighten me.
Since nobody really knows what happens after death, nobody knows how CTB affects afterlife or the next life if there's one, and nobody has the whole picture of the objective reality, how do they make that leap of faith and believe they can't end up in a worse place than they're in right now?
There are "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns." Known unknowns are the questions we humans have raised but haven't found answers to. The unknown unknowns are the questions that nobody has even thought of asking yet - just like ants never wonder why quantum mechanics can't reconcile with general relativity. Due to the unknown unknowns, I'm forced to look at CTB from a risk management perspective. I've always been agnostic - I can't find enough empirical evidence to be 100% certain of anything but also can't discount any possibilities.
The situation that anybody is in seems can always get worse. Not to be pessimistic, but when my understanding of reality and the universe is limited, I'd have to consider the worst scenario and determine whether it's a state of existence I can bear. As a random example, what if "souls" do exist and can get stuck in a perpetual state of going through the agony of, say, being skinned alive if they died by CTB? That sounds worse than any form of disability, homelessness, poverty, losing loved ones.
So, do those folks romanticize or sugarcoat the unknown because such wishful thinking makes death more palatable? Or to strengthen the belief that CTB is a permanent solution to their problems? Or is it just a figure of speech for saying "my life sucks?"
Do they actually believe that the person who's about to CTB will be in a better place soon or is it like people saying "everything is gonna be fine" when they're in fact clueless and scared IRL? Or is it like saying a prayer?
Fear of the unknown is the hurdle I've been failing to jump over and deters me from "pulling the CTB trigger," so it baffles me how "the grass is greener on the other side" assumption caught on and became pervasive on SS. I wonder if it has to do with the manifestation of a common neurosis that dubious reasoning becomes more legitimate when more people with the same reasoning pile on, or if it's an example of people bias their interpretation of evidence and experience toward what they desire (which is a tendency that has been explored and confirmed by psychological science studies). Or maybe I'm really missing something. Feel free to enlighten me.