Do you wish there were the end of world?

[Incorrigible77777]

Do you wish if 1999 or 2012 had been true? From my side it's a bit complex... On one hand, I wish my life could come to an end as soon as possible. On the other hand, thinking from an emphathetic perspective, that'd be too selfish to prevent others (e.g. my close friends around me, who aren't depressed and wish to live long) from living on. What do you think?

 

[Wisdom3_1-9]

I think the world as it is right now doesn't provide much hope for positive futures for others. I think the people I love and care for will experience more pain and suffering through their continued existence. It's their right if they seek to endure that in the pursuit of peace and happiness, but if a major catastrophe occurred and wiped out humanity, I would be okay with that.

 

[demuic]

I think about it everyday which is why I like interesting apocalyptic/dystopian/end of the world/civilization fiction.

 

[Ghost2211]

I just want to know how the world and universe ends

 

[MrAsclepius]

Every day.

 

[cyberlordsumit]

Not then, but if we suddenly get struck by a big asteroid, i wouldn't mind. or a nuke detonating besides mem insta kill

 

[esse_est_percipi]

I just want to know how the world and universe ends

With a lot of nothingness, for a very long time.

 

[Ghost2211]

With a lot of nothingness, for a very long time.

But I want to see what happens before that. It would be amazing to see.. well, I suppose we could never see from the outside, but it would be the greatest scientific pleasure to see how the universe dies.

 

[almost_dead]

Do you wish if 1999 or 2012 had been true? From my side it's a bit complex... On one hand, I wish my life could come to an end as soon as possible. On the other hand, thinking from an emphathetic perspective, that'd be too selfish to prevent others (e.g. my close friends around me, who aren't depressed and wish to live long) from living on. What do you think?

Yea i kinda think that it would actually be selfish to impose my will on others . So i really dont like the idea of the world ending . I would wish for my own ending instead . Sorry.

 

[esse_est_percipi]

But I want to see what happens before that. It would be amazing to see.. well, I suppose we could never see from the outside, but it would be the greatest scientific pleasure to see how the universe dies.

You mean like when the sun dies, and the earth along with it?
Yes, it would be amazing to see how it all ends.

Even before that, it would be amazing just to see other parts of the universe, other galaxies etc. We really have no idea what's out there

 

[HappyMstake]

Nah. Just the end of me will do.

 

[Giraffey]

But I want to see what happens before that. It would be amazing to see.. well, I suppose we could never see from the outside, but it would be the greatest scientific pleasure to see how the universe dies.

I feel this too. If only we could just hop over to a parallel universe or 'step back' into an 'outer dimension' unaffected by events to observe and marvel at the end of the universe, and if we're lucky perhaps, the birth of a new one.

It's not quite the same, but the closest I've come to that experience is to put myself into a state where I am asleep but conscious and between dreams. So imagine you're in a dream and realise that you're dreaming and can interact and explore the dream world as vividly as the waking world - almost every sense just as engaged. Only then, the dream ends, the scenery fades to black, your body disappears and you're left in this vast blackness, emptiness - you're floating in your own dream universe inside your mind.

With practice, you can enter this state fairly regularly. It's difficult to describe except as akin to how you might imagine what it feels like to be just a soul, floating in the endless void of space, if you could be just a mind without a body. I use it for meditation but it's probably as close as I'm ever going to get to what it must feel like to be in the empty space after an entire universe has collapsed. It's serene.

 

[TimeToBiteTheDust]

Yes! But this is selfish because there are people who want to live. But I'd be happy if the world ends someday.

 

[Ghost2211]

I feel this too. If only we could just hop over to a parallel universe or 'step back' into an 'outer dimension' unaffected by events to observe and marvel at the end of the universe, and if we're lucky perhaps, the birth of a new one.

It's not quite the same, but the closest I've come to that experience is to put myself into a state where I am asleep but conscious and between dreams. So imagine you're in a dream and realise that you're dreaming and can interact and explore the dream world as vividly as the waking world - almost every sense just as engaged. Only then, the dream ends, the scenery fades to black, your body disappears and you're left in this vast blackness, emptiness - you're floating in your own dream universe inside your mind.

With practice, you can enter this state fairly regularly. It's difficult to describe except as akin to how you might imagine what it feels like to be just a soul, floating in the endless void of space, if you could be just a mind without a body. I use it for meditation but it's probably as close as I'm ever going to get to what it must feel like to be in the empty space after an entire universe has collapsed. It's serene.

That's why true immortality would be awful. You'd see the awesome of seeing how it all ends, but then you would be trapped alone in the void for eternity.

 

[VIBRITANNIA]

i wish it would end. the world's already going to shit, so i don't want to see what it looks like in 5 years' time. it's selfish and immoral to want to this, seeing as most people don't want to die, but i can't help but wish for it nonetheless.

 

[Spitfire]

I feel this too. If only we could just hop over to a parallel universe or 'step back' into an 'outer dimension' unaffected by events to observe and marvel at the end of the universe, and if we're lucky perhaps, the birth of a new one.

It's not quite the same, but the closest I've come to that experience is to put myself into a state where I am asleep but conscious and between dreams. So imagine you're in a dream and realise that you're dreaming and can interact and explore the dream world as vividly as the waking world - almost every sense just as engaged. Only then, the dream ends, the scenery fades to black, your body disappears and you're left in this vast blackness, emptiness - you're floating in your own dream universe inside your mind.

With practice, you can enter this state fairly regularly. It's difficult to describe except as akin to how you might imagine what it feels like to be just a soul, floating in the endless void of space, if you could be just a mind without a body. I use it for meditation but it's probably as close as I'm ever going to get to what it must feel like to be in the empty space after an entire universe has collapsed. It's serene.

I do this sometimes. First started when I was in high school at about 15 years old (43 y/o now).

Not too often really, and definitely not planned, but I can realize when I am in a dream sometimes

I remember trying to jump and just went straight up through a ceiling of sorts, and then I realized I could fly. This was the first time when I lucidly realized I was actually in a dream..

 

[BerryCakes]

Maybe, I don't know. On one hand, all of life going out with a snap would sort of be ideal, as it would prevent any future suffering from happening.

On the other hand, if we're talking about a more dystopian sort of ending... Then it wouldn't be good at all. What about all the cute animals? What about the cats?

 

[Giraffey]

That's why true immortality would be awful. You'd see the awesome of seeing how it all ends, but then you would be trapped alone in the void for eternity.

You know, I never thought of that. Perhaps you could have the option to hibernate for a few billion years in the meantime though until something else took the place of the void (assuming it did).

Still, visits to my own internal void are like a refuge, an escape from reality where I don't feel pain, just a sense of serene, and where there isn't the imagery to form a nightmare.

I actually devoted some serious research to the concept of putting myself in a coma whereby my only consciousness would be in a vivid dream where I could live the life I wanted to live, free from reality.

Someone once commented "what's the point of living if none of it is real?" to which I replied "when what's real is hell what's not is heaven" - they didn't get it.

So I don't think I would mind immortality but only if I could spend it inside my own mind. Sounds horribly narcissistic, but I can't think of a better way to put it.

 

[Wisdom3_1-9]

You mean like when the sun dies, and the earth along with it?
Yes, it would be amazing to see how it all ends.

Our experience is so limited as humans that we assume we'll be around for earth's end, but it's quite unlikely. Humanity is more likely to succumb to an extinction event long before our solar system goes caput.

On the cosmic calendar (where the Big Bang is January 1 and we are currently at 11:59:59 on December 31), earth starts to form in early September. The dinosaurs are around from December 24-29, and humans arrive around 10:00 pm on December 31. Earth will exist far longer than humanity. We've got about 5 billion years still before the sun envelops the earth - so basically April or May of the next cosmic year.

 

[Nem]

Yes please and I wish it would hurry up

Peace/hugs

 

[esse_est_percipi]

Our experience is so limited as humans that we assume we'll be around for earth's end, but it's quite unlikely. Humanity is more likely to succumb to an extinction event long before our solar system goes caput.

On the cosmic calendar (where the Big Bang is January 1 and we are currently at 11:59:59 on December 31), earth starts to form in early September. The dinosaurs are around from December 24-29, and humans arrive around 10:00 pm on December 31. Earth will exist far longer than humanity. We've got about 5 billion years still before the sun envelops the earth - so basically April or May of the next cosmic year.

I bet humans will have found a way to invade and colonize (and destroy) other planets in other galaxy systems by then.
Humans are masters at surviving through cunning and scheming and cleverness. It will take a lot to cause them to disappear from the universe.

 

[Giraffey]

I do this sometimes. First started when I was in high school at about 15 years old (43 y/o now).

Not too often really, and definitely not planned, but I can realize when I am in a dream sometimes

I remember trying to jump and just went straight up through a ceiling of sorts, and then I realized I could fly. This was the first time when I lucidly realized I was actually in a dream..

Try making an effort to be more conscious of your dreams each morning when you wake. Did you dream? If so, briefly run through the plot in your mind, or write it down if you're interested etc.

Then you can start building more awareness of the world around you and incorporating reality checks into your life. Things like randomly pinching yourself or looking at your watch to see if the hands or text are distorted - noting to yourself when they are or aren't and noting whether or not you're dreaming.

Once it becomes part of your routine you'll start doing it in your dream and it'll help you to get some degree of lucidity (with practice).

You'll notice dream signs too, things that are Illogical (we scientists call them "binding errors") that uniquely identify your surroundings as a dream landscape, they are usually repeat themes for different individuals. One of mine is stacks of parked cars in the street, so whenever I'm outside I'll make a conscious mental note of whether the cars are parked normally or stacked vertically on top of each other, it's usually the former but whenever it's the latter I know I'm dreaming.

The act or intention of being aware of your dreams and the characteristics of them is a factor too, so saying to yourself "I will have a lucid dream tonight" or "I'm going to notice when I'm dreaming tonight" etc can help feed into your subconscious. Sometimes during the dream itself where your dream ego suddenly thinks about dreaming (because you were thinking of it just before bedtime) and bing, the lightbulb comes on and you're awake in your dream.

It's great fun and I find lucid dreaming has some great uses in a therapy setting as well.

 

[Spitfire]

Try making an effort to be more conscious of your dreams each morning when you wake. Did you dream? If so, briefly run through the plot in your mind, or write it down if you're interested etc.

Then you can start building more awareness of the world around you and incorporating reality checks into your life. Things like randomly pinching yourself or looking at your watch to see if the hands or text are distorted - noting to yourself when they are or aren't and noting whether or not you're dreaming.

Once it becomes part of your routine you'll start doing it in your dream and it'll help you to get some degree of lucidity (with practice).

You'll notice dream signs too, things that are Illogical (we scientists call them "binding errors") that uniquely identify your surroundings as a dream landscape, they are usually repeat themes for different individuals. One of mine is stacks of parked cars in the street, so whenever I'm outside I'll make a conscious mental note of whether the cars are parked normally or stacked vertically on top of each other, it's usually the former but whenever it's the latter I know I'm dreaming.

The act or intention of being aware of your dreams and the characteristics of them is a factor too, so saying to yourself "I will have a lucid dream tonight" or "I'm going to notice when I'm dreaming tonight" etc can help feed into your subconscious. Sometimes during the dream itself where your dream ego suddenly thinks about dreaming (because you were thinking of it just before bedtime) and bing, the lightbulb comes on and you're awake in your dream.

It's great fun and I find lucid dreaming has some great uses in a therapy setting as well.

I should make an effort. I used to... It is literally the most fun I have ever had in my life, every time it happens!

 

[nitroautnz]

Wish the world would end? Why? Because I am depressed and want to die? Nah, even if I think our current civilization is going to a dead-end, I don't wish for the end of all the peoples that live or try to live. I will catch the bus on my own. The planet will survive no matter what, that we all here or no. Maybe with life, maybe not.

 

[Meditation guide]

You'll notice dream signs too, things that are Illogical (we scientists call them "binding errors") that uniquely identify your surroundings as a dream landscape, they are usually repeat themes for different individuals. One of mine is stacks of parked cars in the street, so whenever I'm outside I'll make a conscious mental note of whether the cars are parked normally or stacked vertically on top of each other, it's usually the former but whenever it's the latter I know I'm dreaming.

You can also ask yourself throughout the day "Am I dreaming?" so that you get in the habit of that and it carries over into your dreams.

Right now my main dream theme is being stranded somewhere with no way to get home.

 

[Wayfaerer]

Yes, it was a fantasy I had been obsessed with for a long time. Nothing would've been more gratifying to me than seeing this turd we call civilization collapse and to live in a post-apocalypse like in madmax/fallout. I'm also a misanthrope and a nihilist if you couldn't tell.

i wish it would end. the world's already going to shit, so i don't want to see what it looks like in 5 years' time. it's selfish and immoral to want to this, seeing as most people don't want to die, but i can't help but wish for it nonetheless.

Selfish perhaps but not immoral.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I'm so selfish, I actually DON'T want the world to end. I'd rather my death be savored and enjoyed by others. It wouldn't feel very special dying at the same time as everyone else.

 

[Wayfaerer]

I'm so selfish, I actually DON'T want the world to end. I'd rather my death be savored and enjoyed by others. It wouldn't feel very special dying at the same time as everyone else.

Man, reading your posts is something else

 

[Meditation guide]

Nothing would've been more gratifying to me than seeing this turd we call civilization collapse and to live in a post-apocalypse like in madmax/fallout.

But, isn't that starting to happen now? I feel it is. Give this two or three more years and no more US as we have known it or anything else. Not the earth, water, atmosphere, all gone. People too. Wait until this virus starts mutating it's ass off!

 

[Wayfaerer]

But, isn't that starting to happen now? I feel it is.

It won't be a full-on apocalypse. Maybe the west continues to decay and the east takes our place as numero uno but it's not going to be the end of the world.

Oh, you're talking about a climate apocalypse... Yeah, that's definitely not going to happen.