The plot of The Last Answer is horrifying

[genio]

Basically, a physicist named Murray Templeton dies and awakes as an electromagnetic nexus. He discovers he’s trapped in an eternal afterlife where he has no physical body or any external stimuli except one thing. There is a being called “The Voice” who interrogates him and tells him his purpose for the rest of eternity is to just think. The Voice culls interesting human minds into an eternal state of nothingness where they simply think for the rest of eternity in which their thoughts serve to amuse The Voice.

Eternity is just such a scary concept to me, especially with no external stimuli except for a voice. It would be even worse if there was no voice and he was just stuck in nothingness with his own thoughts though.

I was laying in bed for like 20 minutes, but I couldn’t fall asleep even with my eyes closed. I was getting pissed off I was just there looking at darkness then I thought of this short story. I started imagining (or rather monologuing) myself having to think forever in this state. Imagining myself in his place was scary as fuck and I had to open my eyes to remind myself I had a physical body. I have aphantasia so it means I can’t even create imagery in my head, making the situation worse.

Yeye I scared myself with my own bullshit it’s kinda dumb but i’d hate eternal anything its my irrational fear

@Aurelius74 @Arya
Tldr: im scared of being stuck forever in an eternal nothingness with only my own thoughts

 

[levithedudebro]

that does sound pretty scary but like wouldnt you just zone out after a certain amount of time i find that if im doing a repetitive task with no other stimuli i just zone out and think without really thinking yknow wouldnt it be the same thing but like on a longer scale

 

[submissivechud]

yeah yeah what he said

 

[Aryy]

When i was a kid i used to think i could be alive for a long time without any stimuli i dont need much but my thoughts

Now i realized i would go crazy as everyone would

 

[genio]

that does sound pretty scary but like wouldnt you just zone out after a certain amount of time i find that if im doing a repetitive task with no other stimuli i just zone out and think without really thinking yknow wouldnt it be the same thing but like on a longer scale

Eternity son

 

[levithedudebro]

Eternity son

yeah but youd go nuts and then just kinda stop being you idk would you even really be in there anymore after a certain amount of time

 

[genio]

When i was a kid i used to think i could be alive for a long time without any stimuli i dont need much but my thoughts

Now i realized i would go crazy as everyone would

Bro i was scared of eternity as a kid too because im an 8 year old philosopher type shit

 

[genio]

yeah but youd go nuts and then just kinda stop being you idk would you even really be in there anymore after a certain amount of time

Youd js be a crazy fuck in nothingness which makes it even worse because you can literally do nothing about it

 

[levithedudebro]

Youd js be a crazy fuck in nothingness which makes it even worse because you can literally do nothing about it

yeah that does sound pretty rough

 

[Aryy]

Bro i was scared of eternity as a kid too because im an 8 year old philosopher type shit

The thing is i talked even less as a child to others i mean it took me alot to talk

when i first went to my daycare i dint speak to anyone for a month

So i was somewhat used to being alone with my thoughts for hours on end without anything

But now im not anyways and i guess i did have some stimuli

 

[Aurelius74]

Man Eating Celestial Ogre Lord Alavaka has been meditating for millennias and will keep meditating for few more until Maetrya returns.
Nothingness isn't scary, competing every second of ur life against one's who got lucky in terms of genetics is far more scarier.

 

[genio]

The thing is i talked even less as a child to others i mean it took me alot to talk

when i first went to my daycare i dint speak to anyone for a month

So i was somewhat used to being alone with my thoughts for hours on end without anything

But now im not anyways and i guess i did have some stimuli

This is me now because i have no fucking friends

 

[levithedudebro]

The thing is i talked even less as a child to others i mean it took me alot to talk

when i first went to my daycare i dint speak to anyone for a month

So i was somewhat used to being alone with my thoughts for hours on end without anything

But now im not anyways and i guess i did have some stimuli

how were you even thinking in daycare i was eating my boogers and like rolling on the floor

 

[Aryy]

how were you even thinking in daycare i was eating my boogers and like rolling on the floor

I was 7
both my parents were working so i was in daycare till 9 years old basically

 

[genio]

Man Eating Celestial Ogre Lord Alavaka has been meditating for millennias and will keep meditating for few more until Maetrya returns.
Nothingness isn't scary, competing every second of ur life against one's who got lucky in terms of genetics is far more scarier.

Millennia is nothing to eternity
Also idk wtf you’re talking about son i have no knowledge of this 🫩
Also I find that my genetics are sufficient enough to be happy

 

[levithedudebro]

I was 7
both my parents were working so i was in daycare till 9 years old basically

ooohhhh okay yeah i mean at seven i wasnt doing much thinking either but like i guess if you were alone youd be thinking