How do I truly internalise the concept of momento Mori?
Logically I understand that I should live every day as if it where my last because it might actually be. Emotionally though I still get hung up on insecurities and other anxieties. Book recommendations welcome.
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It's already internalized in your genes.
Isn't it called Memento mori?
Sorry typo
Contemplate suicide every day
It’s meaningless bullshit, people think death is profound but it is not. No one is actually afraid of death are has any emotion towards it, they just attach emotions they already had to death because they think intellectually that they “should” feel something about death. In fact, death as a thought has in itself no existential significance because your monkey brain doesn’t even understand it. You didn’t evolve to be afraid of death but of things that cause death.
>No one is actually afraid of death are has any emotion towards it, they just attach emotions they already had to death because they think intellectually that they “should” feel something about death.
The thought that someday your life as you know it will just end inspires no feeling at all in you?
Says more about you imo
It says that I don’t attach meaning to random bullshit like a homosexual and then think that it was always there rather than that I put it there. The thought of death is just an intellectual inference with no existential origin. If you get worked up by abstract concepts you are a homosexual.
Do you genuinely feel nothing when you contemplate that you will die? Sure it’s not as gripping as being actively afraid of something but it still inspires some emotions in most people.
I’ll check it out thanks
This is what I understand that I should logically do but I often get stuck in comfortable routines of lifting and studying for goals that are years down the line or make up reasons for why i “aren’t ready” do things.
I logically want to live in the moment but emotionally feel unprepared for everything.
Elaborate on how to go “Black person mode”
> Do you genuinely feel nothing when you contemplate that you will die?
Yes and it has always been that way.
> Sure it’s not as gripping as being actively afraid of something but it still inspires some emotions in most people.
Only because they irrationally associate death with other things that actually do cause emotions. Death in itself is a meme. You should focus on the actual causes of your emotions.
>Only because they irrationally associate death with other things that actually do cause emotions. Death in itself is a meme.
You are in denial.
your life is meaningless bullshit, but mine isn't
Infinite jest
Literally, "Hymn to Old Age" by Herman Hesse.
>recollection
(you) the lesser Self dies. What of it? What does that point to?
Do something out of your comfort zone as often as possible, take calculated risks. Tell yourself "I might as well do it now, I might get severe cold tomorrow and cough nails."
Depeche Mode after Playing the angel sucks.
By turning off your brain and living life on Black person mode. Anything else is white b***h cope.
kino album OP
to me from a purely philosophical point of view it's clearly related to the abandonment of the ego, mental detachment from the passing physical individuality
even viewing it within a sort of modern-materialistic kind of view I find some solace in that after all some life will sprung up from whatever is left of you anyway, maybe think about being buried where a tree will grow, it makes me happy to think about it
Getting into buddhism did help me a bit with that.
Trying to be mindful & focus on the present moment instead of worrying and yearning for things that might or might not happen in an uncertain future. Contemplating your own mortality and the impermanence of the ego can also go with that.
You can pick up any introduction to Buddhism to give you a general idea if you're interested in that