Loss of connection

[ningaman151]

I do not feel a personal connection with myself anymore. I no longer see myself as me. "I" am not this deluded person. I don't feel things are personal anymore. Everything is just a statistic. You, me, everyone and their experiences. People like to think that we're all unique. We are, but that is meaningless. In a world of over 7 billion people, humans are expendible and easily replaced. Sure, there are a few people who outstand in their fields, but even if that person never existed, eventually another person will be born who will acheive what that person would have. Life to me is like setting sail into a vast, unknown ocean, where you wake up not even knowing when the journey began. Maybe death is just another part of this journey, a new chapter, a new story. After all, it's called the cycle of life isn't it.

 

[RaptorHavx]

I do not feel a personal connection with myself anymore. I no longer see myself as me. "I" am not this deluded person. I don't feel things are personal anymore. Everything is just a statistic. You, me, everyone and their experiences. People like to think that we're all unique. We are, but that is meaningless. In a world of over 7 billion people, humans are expendible and easily replaced. Sure, there are a few people who outstand in their fields, but even if that person never existed, eventually another person will be born who will acheive what that person would have. Life to me is like setting sail into a vast, unknown ocean, where you wake up not even knowing when the journey began. Maybe death is just another part of this journey, a new chapter, a new story. After all, it's called the cycle of life isn't it.

I could kind of relate and agree about that. Thing is that way of thinking only makes you feel even worse and it's not changing anything. Personally I see world around as if everything would be already "decided". By that I mean if a person is born at wrong place and time, he/she will be basically screwed through entire lifespan. Whole set of events will occur and there is no running away from that. Those events makes one think, behave, decide and see world around in certain way... We all heard saying that we are our own creators and form our lives... sorry, kind of bull*** for me. Even though I dont want to think in this particular way, every time I start to consider the cycle of life, I'm forcefully leaded to conclusion that there ain't any room for free will. Damn... I shouldn't have started this....

 

[RaptorHavx]

I could kind of agree about that. Thing is that way of thinking only makes you feel even worse and it's not changing anything. Personally I see world around as if everything would be already "decided". By that I mean if a person is born at wrong place and time, he/she will be basically screwed through entire lifespan. Whole set of events will occur and there is no running away from that. Those events makes one think, behave, decide and see world around in certain way... We all heard saying that we are our own creators and form our lives... sorry, kind of bull*** for me. Even though I dont want to think in this particular way, every time I start to consider the cycle of life, I'm forcefully leaded to conclusion that there ain't any room for free will. Damn... I shouldn't have started this....

Still, it's just me. Other people are religious and have different beliefs which help them cope and keep mental health (like believing in justice after death, cause there is none during life etc.), in this way religions are really helpful. It's like telling terminally sick person that she/he will be alright rather than fact...

 

[Justanotherconsumer]

Basically were all the same, working so we can eat, sleep. So I don't buy into the premise we're all unique in all the world, this concept was heard alot as children, not as adults, it's all to obvious we're simply production units. Chicken,beef,and pork, each has it's own living circumstances but individually all taste's the same.

 

[Midnight]

I agree with pretty much all of the above.

 

[Aurelius]

Consciousness isn't special. Nearly 14 billion years passed without us, and when we arrived, the universe didn't notice. In 5 billion more years our sun will go red giant and burn our planet away, if we haven't already done that ourselves, and the universe isn't going to notice that either. And you all are right, there isn't a magical homunculus pulling the levers in our brains, just neurons obeying the deterministic laws of physics. Every bad thing that has happened and will happen has been waiting for us since the beginning of time.

I'm fairly new here. It's refreshing to see people talking like this and not be immediately overrun by the cheerful, judgmental thought police.