There are multiple schools and apartment buildings for example that would lack heating, running water and sewers were my contribution to be removed from them.
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I don’t believe in it in the traditional sense, but I do have a feeling that there’s something deeply mysterious about our minds and consciousness. I wouldn’t claim with absolute certainty that death is the end of experience.
Take general anesthesia, for example - it’s one of the closest things to dying that we can experience and still return from. What does it feel like? Nothing. By definition, it cannot be experienced. You might have been under for ten hours, but from your perspective, you simply go from feeling drowsy to waking up in another room, with no sense of time having passed in between. You can only experience being, not not-being.
Who’s to say something similar doesn’t happen when you die? Your experience could simply continue elsewhere. Whether it happens instantly or after a ten-thousand-year gap is irrelevant - because from the standpoint of your subjective experience, it would feel instantaneous. We could take this even further and consider the possibility that consciousness is something universal - something we merely tap into rather than generate individually. In that case, who’s to say you weren’t “born” this morning into this already existing body, complete with prior memories of a past life, simply continuing from where “someone else” left off?
No wonder I feel like such an outsider here. I've been on youtube for almost two decades and there's not a single channel I follow mentioned here in this thread.
EDIT: Well there was one match: Primitive Technology
That's crazy. How are they keeping up with news about Trump and Musk then?
No, I'd be extremely suspicious of such person.
Content filters are your friend here. It's the only way of making social media barely tolerable. You just need to keep updating it constantly as next week there's going to be a new "existential crisis" that nobody can shut up about. Here's a list of keywords to clean up your Lemmy feed by quite a bit if you're interested:
united, ceo, c.e.o., brian thompson, health exec, luigi, uhc, rednote, trump, elon, musk, nazi, fascis, israel, idf, ice, dei, palestin, gaza, project 2025, deport, kirsti, deepseek, rfk, billionair, republican, far right, far-right, maga, DEI, ‘DEI’, doge, LGBT, pronoun, trans, gulf, christian right, nancy mace, abortion, immigrat, gop, migrant, x, measles, pedo, transgender, queer
Intentions, of course, since they indicate how someone is likely to behave in the future. Even if you end up causing harm while intending to do good, that doesn’t lead me to expect you’ll continue causing harm. But the opposite is true if your intention was to cause harm. This holds true even if no actual harm was done - the fact that someone intended harm says a lot about them.
Why? If it's a human, imagine how much time and effort they wasted to achieve absolutely nothing. Although, in this case they did achieve something because by making this thread you let them know that they indeed succeed in getting under your skin. Do you know what this kind of users hate the most? Being ignored.
Uncheck this box in your settings and move on to focus on things that actually matter.
Besides listening to podcasts, browsin Lemmy/Reddit is the only entertainment I ever use my phone for.
That's pretty dishonest summary of what I said. Nobody is selling anything here.
A house by the lake and early retirement are the only goals I've yet to achieve. Ones I've already acomplished include getting fit, getting a girlfriend, house, pickup truck and being self-employed.