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| imnotgivingmynametoamachine #863632 6 months ago |
Imagine when you die, that there is no soul...no heaven, and no hell, but somehow your consciousness still manages to exist in some form. Close your eyes in a dark room...no sound, no movement, no feelings, no touch, no smells, no interactions.
You merely exist in a dark void absent of all sensual stimuli...aware of your fate locked in some dark empty abyss with no means to escape...imagine that persisting forever... Have a good night! |
| AppleJackFrost #863634 6 months ago |
Gah, this will make way for the fall. |
| PVRyohei #863638 6 months ago |
I think this is what you mean:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNothingAfterDeath |
| Xuncu #863676 6 months ago |
"if Big Bang is proved right"
It has already. "before it" Asking that shows that one doesn't really understand the concept; that time itself was a product, not a component of the Bang. Not time, causality, or anything we'd call "common sense" as we know it. You'd have a better chance of getting a rational answer if you asked Discord "Explain yourself." Saying "Before the big bang" makes as much sense as saying "north of the north pole" |
| imnotgivingmynametoamachine #863685 6 months ago |
@PVRyohei - Yep, pretty much. It's also my single greatest fear. Kinda thought about it after playing Earthbound (Poo's story). |
| Xuncu #863707 6 months ago |
One big problem is that the ley person expects an answer that appeals to their common sense. Obivously, that's the problem; anybody who's really studied it knows that the universe really doesn't (make sense, that is), and scientific progress is about correcting our knowledge to match what the universe already is (and always has been; they weren't around then, but the internet and Ponybooru, and Comedy would still work within the first few minutes of the Bang, if you were to teleport it to then--- well, besides being inside an insane inferno).
To put it another way, the problem of common sense is apparent in the word itself: Common sense says that matter doesn't just explode. Except yes it does: if it didn't, nuclear reactors and the sun would not work. Common: nuclear reactors-- nuclear science itself-- was not invented untill the middle of this past century. So, it's not common. But the sun is! Ah, but there's the other half: before the atomic age, did we have any way to sense it? For thousands of years, the sun was just "big hot thing that the day brought forth", before they figured out that the sun causes the day, and not the othe way around. But they still didn't know how it worked, and there used to be attempts to calculate how old it was by the assumption that it was a big coal fire in space (seriously), and how long it had been burning/will burn. Point being, they ahd no way to sense, to detect how the sun work; it was outside of our perspective and our capacity of understanding. So, the problem of common sense is that it's too dependant on things that happen regularly at scales that we can appreceate. And another case in point that common sense is near-useless for understanding the universe.... well, just skim an article on Quantum Physics experiments-- stuff that we have proven and can cause to happen, and how it sometimes makes no fucking sense. |
| Anonymous #867731 6 months ago |
I would rather live the life of a slave than be the king of all the underworld. |
| Xuncu #869731 6 months ago |
^And that's why we use you for the manual labor. |