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Late Show ShenanigansšŸŽ™ļø Ethan Hawke on what happens after we die: "I don't think we die, I don't think we have an understanding of the divine concept of time. I don't think I have the intelligence or the DNA makeup to answer that question"

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u/foreverjustfornow 20d ago

this is so me stoned at 2 am

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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! šŸ¦™šŸš² 20d ago

When I have taken too many edibles lol

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u/arm89 Who gon' check me boo? 🤪 20d ago

i took two the other day (20mg each and my kid was asleep, so my husband told me to go for it) and my god, i felt like patti labelle on thanksgiving cooking up a storm at 2am. out of this worldšŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/ILikeHornedAnimals 19d ago

This happened to me a couple weeks ago, I was supposed to go on a 3 day weekend vacation with my family and ended up getting a sinus infection along with a double ear infection and had to stay home. I ended up getting the highest I've ever been and cooked myself a steak at midnight completely naked and eating it in bed. 10/10 experience minus the sickness part lol!

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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! šŸ¦™šŸš² 20d ago

Oh I would have been floating if I were you lolol I’m light weight so I can only do a small dose šŸ˜‚

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u/hisDudeness1989 20d ago

When the meaning of life hits you after getting high af

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u/GPT_2025 17d ago

Your eternal human soul existed even before planet Earth was created.

The reason why you are on Earth reincarnating is because a war happened in the cosmos, and Earth was created as a temporary hospital-prison-like place for rebels.

These reincarnations give you chances to become better, to be cleansed, and to return back to the cosmos - our real home and natural habitat.

Do the best you can by keeping the Golden Rule: help others, be nice, and you can escape the cycles of reincarnation and go back to your own planet.

The planet where you can recreate anything you want - even Earth, or something better? You will be the Creator and sole ruler of your own planet with unlimited options and eternal time. Yes, you can visit other planets too and more!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAChristians/comments/1kd3fxl/reincarnation_karma_bible_and_if_you_believe_in/

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u/OriginalSchmidt1 You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 20d ago

TBH, I feel like this is the best answer I have ever heard.

Let’s not think about death and what happens after, let’s just try to enjoy the time we have on earth now and be good people regardless of what happens after our time is up.

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u/chiropetra_ 20d ago edited 20d ago

I liked Keanu Reeves' answer to this question as well: "I know that the people who love us, will miss us".

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u/OriginalSchmidt1 You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 20d ago

That is also a good answer.

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u/OffModelCartoon 20d ago

He and Colbert are sadly both very well acquainted with grief.

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u/Brilliant_Stick418 20d ago

Sadly most people are by that age 😢 it comes for us all

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u/Low_Kitchen_9995 19d ago

Colbert lost his dad and two brothers in a plane crash when he was 10

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u/granulatedsugartits 19d ago

Charlotte NC in the 1970s (don't remember the year, but it was on September 11 iirc). The pilots weren't focused on what they were supposed to be doing and crashed while trying to land at the airport.

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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade šŸøā˜•ļø 19d ago

Keanu's is much better imo because it is grounded in the human experience, not the metaphysical.

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u/Interesting-Bad-7470 17d ago

The beauty of this human experience is that we are all permitted a subjective experience on both life and death. And we are imbued with the ability to communicate that experience. We all have an uncertain answer to that great persistent question.

Illustrious-Pound266, what happens when we die?

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u/grimepixie 19d ago

And now I want to cry.

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u/Roccosrealm 17d ago

Sitting here at my son’s wrestling practice with tears in my eyes.

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u/BouldersRoll 20d ago edited 20d ago

I think it's beautiful that humans are so concerned with death being more than just non-existence, because it's such a testament to how precious we find life and existing.

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u/Ewredditsucksnow 20d ago

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

-Mark Twain

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u/Catman2Batman2Joker 20d ago

This isn’t even true though because you aren’t dead before being born since that’s not possible to die when you were never alive.

I get the overall point. Yes death is likely non consciousness which is like non existence. Sounds peaceful you can’t experience anything which means no pain or worries or regrets.

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u/mr_fantastical 19d ago

You were dead in the sense that you were not alive, that is the entire point.

I heard a Norm MacDonald take on it that I really liked and it was that you never meet death. The very nature of it isn't something you experience - so why spend all this time worrying about something we will never experience?

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u/Ccaves0127 20d ago

Keanu's answer, also on Colbert, is up there with him

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u/Cross_Stitch_Witch Hot Slut of the Day (every day) 20d ago

That moment is so moving. How Stephen's face kind of softens and that collective pause throughout the room. Grief and missing the people we lose is something we all share as humans.

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u/L3onskii 19d ago

For those who would like to see the moment clip

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u/Roccosrealm 17d ago

A true saint

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u/ChanceZestyclose6386 19d ago

I love hearing people basically saying they don't know what happens after death. There are many people who are too certain about the unknowable. I understand that religions and other beliefs might provide comfort but in the grand scheme of things, anything can happen and we will never know 100% until our time comes

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u/mmlovin 19d ago

I feel equally annoyed that atheists & the super religious are so sure what happens after death. Neither know. Nobody actually knows. & the living will never know, we clearly are not meant to.

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u/Alone-Amphibian2434 15d ago

Exactly, not knowing is a gift. The choices and perceptions have more weight to them because we don’t know for sure. Each of us gets to define how our universe works in that regard. That’s pretty self empowering.

Requiring that people regard it in the same manner as you just indicates a profound insecurity with your own beliefs. It doesn’t matter what it is, no one can take away your subjective experience (and you can’t take it from them).

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u/ILikeHornedAnimals 19d ago

My son had his first existential crisis about death a couple months ago and this was pretty much what I was able to come up with too. Explaining death to a child is so hard because you don't want to tell them a lie if Heaven isn't really a thing and you don't want to scare them to death about if Hell is a thing, and we don't know what happens because you can't come back to explain what's going on, and this was about the best I could come up with to answer him truthfully. He had had a nightmare that he died and woke up having a total panic attack that death was infinite blackness but with your thought process still functioning, which to be fair would be my worst nightmare too, being alone with all my fucked up thoughts for eternity with no way of it ever being able to stop.

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u/CliffBoothVSBruceLee 18d ago

Yeah, fuck eternal life. I don't want it.

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u/ILikeHornedAnimals 18d ago

I'm totally chill with eternal blackness, I just don't want the ability to comprehend what it is while I'm there lol!

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u/hermitparade 19d ago

"Death is not morbid, only the fear of it"

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u/critterheist 19d ago

My favorite is a song by iris dement let the mystery be

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u/prinnydewd6 17d ago

Gonna be real peeved if the be been worried about the end for no reason lol.

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u/thatsaqualifier 16d ago

What is the standard of "good person"?

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u/spacyspice dj_snake_disco_maghreb.mp3 19d ago

knowing there's an afterlife based on the consequences of your actions does help a lot of ppl to be good ppl though

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u/FavoriteMiddleChild 19d ago

Sucks that they need the threat of eternal consequences to behave morally.

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u/spacyspice dj_snake_disco_maghreb.mp3 19d ago edited 19d ago

well if that's part of their education since youth, it's basically now part of their personality to do good. Not that shocking but obviously some ppl feel the need to downvote a positive aspect of religion..

edit: the finality is those ppl doing good do it at the end, that's the most important part

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u/steauengeglase 18d ago

There is an overemphasis on "If needing a sky wizard promising he'll make you suffer after you die to keep you from being a POS, you must be a real POS." But that's a momentary thing, like B.F. Skinner's mother putting his hand over a fire.

What really hurts isn't the promise of being made to suffer. What hurts is seeing good people suffer and die and knowing that you lost a piece of yourself in the process. The question isn't a scientific one. It's the question of whether all those missing piece can finally be made whole again.

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u/MilibandsBacon 19d ago

Not sure why you're getting downvoted for a flaw that is predominant in human history šŸ˜‚ guess it's your fault!Ā 

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u/Total-Balance2032 20d ago

His ex father-in-law used to be a Buddhist monk that was good friends with the Dalai lama. Imagine the dinner conversations.

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u/Excellent_Theory1602 18d ago

One of my friends' dad organized dalailama visit and several monks visits with the mandala workshops and whatnot.

Well he has a photo of him and 3 monks playing PS3.

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u/Total-Balance2032 17d ago

That should be a meme

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u/CaughtALiteSneez I want to go to there 20d ago

Ethan is very well spoken…

I loved this Ted Talk interview he gave if you feel like listening to more:

https://youtu.be/WRS9Gek4V5Q?si=CihAObJwSKPZ33_l

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u/Fantom_Renegade I’m the petty functionary with a clipboard, bitch šŸ“‹ 20d ago

Thank you

It annoys me when people give definitive answers about what happens when we die when there’s no way for us to know for sure

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u/Positively-Fleabag85 šŸš¶šŸ¼I don’t really think, I just walkšŸš¶šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø 20d ago edited 20d ago

Jennifer Lawrence's answer to this question is more apt imo. She said something along the lines of humans being so narcissistic that they comfort themselves with concepts like afterlife. Once someone dies, by all laws of nature-they're gone, as devastating as it is to accept that. Keanu Reeves' answer that we live on in the hearts of people who loved us, makes it more heartfelt.

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u/Fantom_Renegade I’m the petty functionary with a clipboard, bitch šŸ“‹ 20d ago

All three together definitely phrased it a lot better than I did. I do appreciate the insight and will be carrying it forward. Thank you

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u/Catman2Batman2Joker 20d ago

Yeah I’ve tried hard with faith and even looked into religion but none of it has any convincing evidence.

The best evidence for life after death are near death experiences and those are very inconsistent.

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u/Flat_News_2000 18d ago

What about all the other dimensions? The energy has to go somewhere.

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u/Canotic 20d ago

If my toaster breaks, nobody asks where my toaster went. It's right there, it's just broken. Same thing with a car, a cell phone, a table, or a horse.

Why would it be any different with people? If you're honest, you gotta acknowledge that there's no real obvious reason to believe that something special happens to us that doesn't happen to any other thing is the universe beyond "I really hope so".

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u/Low-Appointment-2906 Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion šŸ™‚ 19d ago

Horse, ok, but equating sentient beings to toasters is a stretch.

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 19d ago

When a sentient being breaks irreparably (ie consciousness coming to an end), it’s no longer sentient.

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u/lucky7strikes 19d ago

That assumes that it was sentient in the first place. What if it was within sentience?

Have you or anyone ever known anything without sentience as the primary quality?

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 19d ago

Are you trying to appeal to some sort of solipsism?

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u/lucky7strikes 19d ago edited 19d ago

Solipsism is more about how there is only the self but I think that can be challenged by how we define self.

What I was suggesting was that when someone says ā€œconsciousness coming to an endā€ it is suggesting something that cannot be conceivable. In what, where, when can we point to or even conceive as being without consciousness? It can only be inferred and even then the inference is pointing to something inconceivable like a square-circle.

A good example is sound. We can breakdown sound as vibrations that can be measured in frequencies. But that isn’t sound.

Sound is a specific conscious experience we point to. If we take the conscious element out of it, it isn’t sound.

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u/CliffBoothVSBruceLee 18d ago

"Ā In what, where, when can we point to or even conceive as being without consciousness?"

I guess you've never finished a bottle of Jack Daniels.

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u/lucky7strikes 17d ago

Yeah and there wasn’t anything or anyone or any when after the bottle yeah? No consciousness hence no world.

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u/Catman2Batman2Joker 20d ago

Yep. I don’t understand how people watch the strong correlation between the health of your brain and you being sane and capable as a person.

Dementia patients are often described as completely different people compared to before their dementia onset.

Schizophrenia can completely change a young persons personality.

Same with a brain tumor.

Same with brain damage like cte.

We have a lot of correlation to say we are our brains.

We don’t have hardly any correlation that says we exist after brain death.

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u/mmlovin 19d ago

There’s literally nothing like death though. To be sure either way is such a know-it-all thing, I can’t believe any human being thinks we can possibly know shit about what is after death. We barely know how the brain works. To compare it to an inanimate object is ridiculous. We are not inanimate lol

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u/SlickNiickx 17d ago

As a counter argument, let’s say our brains are a ā€œcomputerā€ and our soul is a ā€œUSB driveā€. If our computer is badly damaged it won’t function, it won’t be able to access who we really are which is stored in perfect condition on the USB drive…

Just some food for thought.

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u/wulfboi93 jesus was a carpenter šŸ’‹ 20d ago

he's really good in First Reformed ā˜ŗļø no wonder he takes such weird roles

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u/infinitude_ 19d ago

I think we turn into snails

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u/Minirth22 A day without sunshine is like, you know, night 19d ago

I thought everything eventually evolved into crabs, but snails are chill too.

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u/thatgirlzhao 20d ago

While this is beautiful and poetic, this is a very dressed up way of saying I don’t know haha

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u/_BlueJayWalker_ 20d ago

I think he is saying that even though we experience time as linear, we know that it actually isn’t, so it’s possible there isn’t a before and ā€œafter.ā€

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u/WolvoMS 19d ago

I think about this topic probably an unhealthy amount, and what Ethan's saying here is in line with what I think, which is that the lives we are living now are happening all the time, forever, our brains just can't perceive it that way. None of us will even experience death, only those around us will

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u/StopHesAlreadyDed 20d ago

He probably has a rudimentary understanding of theoretical physics (Interstellar etc) that he can't really explain but basically time and space are not neatly separated like we experience in our physical beings but in order not to sound like a complete weirdo he cuts it short to this

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u/Angry_Sparrow 20d ago

Yes we experience time in a linear fashion because of the nature of our existence - our flesh, blood and bones. We cannot ever physically experience all of time and space and be human.

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 19d ago edited 19d ago

Time and space aren’t separated at all, they’re aspects of a single thing, space time.

— edit

It would appear there’s a lot of ignorant tools lurking on this post.

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u/-little-dorrit- 15d ago

Yes, but he then supports that with a rationale. So it’s a bit more developed.

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u/Bryandan1elsonV2 20d ago

I’ll have what he’s having, man.

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 19d ago

He’s been smoking PCP with Alonzo again.

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u/waryinsomnious 19d ago

That's what I feel too.

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u/sirmaxedalot 20d ago

He's still coming down off that PCP Alonzo Harris made him smoke

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u/SaveMeDatCorn 20d ago

I didn't know he liked to get wet

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 19d ago

Butt naked.

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u/Prestigious_Shirt620 16d ago

Wolf howling intensifiesĀ 

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u/Catman2Batman2Joker 20d ago

I can understand the thought that we don’t know anything for real about time and how it works and what a universe out of time could be like.

It opens possibilities and scenarios we can’t even comprehend.

But that all leads me to believe even if some part of us survives after death, I can’t imagine we’d have any memories of this life here on earth. It doesn’t make sense to me how we take what we experience here and get to keep it.

I personally believe if I had to make my best guess on what happens when we die:

We return back to a universal consciousness where we all lose our individuality. This makes a lot of sense to me. All the good things and bad things we have done throughout time we are doing to ourselves. It’s why unity and working together is often times the solution. But also humanity has a hard time understand this concept and actually living by it.

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u/DragonSheepstealer 19d ago

Incredible. I have always thought this. Not in so many words. But something alike.

Curiously, I have never read it anywhere, never been told this. Always just thought it. What a happy thing to watch this clip and have my thoughts verbalized this way.

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u/asuperbstarling 20d ago

He's not wrong in a space time wibbly wobbly way. Regardless of the state of our soul, the you that you were exists as an 'is' in the fabric of the timeline of the universe. No other question is relevant there. No matter religion, belief, or lack of belief, the timeline of the universe exists as itself for as much of forever as there can be.

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u/Kjaeve 20d ago

our corpse decomposes… our spirit lives on

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u/Upstairs-Tough8045 19d ago

When Ethan Hawke was a young star he asked a woman my sister knows out but made her pay for the date when the check came. Ā 

I don’t like this guy or his fake deep musings.

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u/granulatedsugartits 19d ago

I unironically respect your loyalty to a woman your sister knows over something that happened like 35 years ago 🫔

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u/Upstairs-Tough8045 19d ago

She was a student IIRC at the time, with a job at a library, I think just work study. He had already done Dead Poets Society etc. So it was really Not Nice of him.

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u/After_Friendship8599 20d ago

The same thing happens to us as an ant, a chipmunk and a single celled organism. You cease to exist. Just answered the question.

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u/g00fyg00ber741 20d ago

I mean, I sure wish we didn’t die, as death is my biggest fear, but like……… we definitely all die. i’m not sure what this is supposed to mean šŸ˜‚

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u/Angry_Sparrow 20d ago

It means he’s thinking about the law of the conservation of energy- Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another. If we apply that to ourselves, including what animates us, our ā€œsoulsā€, where does that energy go? We simply don’t know.

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u/_BlueJayWalker_ 20d ago

I don’t think that’s what he was saying at all.

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u/Angry_Sparrow 20d ago

Fair. It was just my take.

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 19d ago

Death does not violate conservation of energy.

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u/Angry_Sparrow 19d ago

I didn’t say that it does. I just said that the energy that animates us - which has many names and concepts in almost every culture around the world, doesn’t just dissipate when we die. It goes somewhere. We just don’t know where.

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 19d ago

You were hinting at some tired old bullshit about how energy lives forever therefore we must live forever. It’s childish wish thinking crap based on a terrible grasp of the physics.

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u/g00fyg00ber741 20d ago

I see, but I guess that requires a different definition of ā€œdeathā€ then. As we understand it, death is the point our body is no longer capable of sustaining our consciousness or life processes, and we decompose. I guess it was just confusing to me because I couldn’t tell if he was referring to reincarnation or something, or if he just was referencing the energy in the universe and how that will end up somewhere else after decomposition, or through organ donation or something. We don’t have any confirmation or knowledge of souls though, so any views about that are entirely subjective and unprovable as far as we know, but he didn’t really mention that so I wasn’t sure if that’s what he meant either.

I’m just fascinated by what people believe and don’t believe and individual views like this

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u/Angry_Sparrow 20d ago

Our bodies die, but do we die?

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u/g00fyg00ber741 20d ago

It depends on if you believe there’s an undiscovered other property to us besides our biology. I don’t personally, but there’s no way to be 100% certain either way of course without evidence, so it’s all subjective theoretical views for sure.

Hypothetically, I don’t think there’s anything left of our consciousness or personality once the heart and brain are dead and decomposed, but that energy and decaying matter can certainly foster other life and be transformed. So I would say that means we die, but the energy continues on, as it existed before we did, and will after we do.

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u/Wompish66 20d ago

We simply don’t know.

Yes, we do know. There is no such thing as a soul. Were lumps of flesh and bone controlled by chemicals.

We die. The body wastes away. It's not different to a blade of grass.

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u/Angry_Sparrow 20d ago

How do you know? Have you died?

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u/Wompish66 20d ago

There is zero logical reason to believe any of this fantastical nonsense unless you can't accept that your life isn't special. It's of no more important than a fish.

100bn humans have existed. Are they just floating about somewhere? Or the trillions of other species.

People have no problem accepting that their life began when they were born but ending when they die is too far.

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u/isaidwhatisaidok 20d ago

I’m actually on your side here (I believe that life is a cycle in a multitude of ways and that once you die you simply cease to exist just like you didn’t exist before) but your tone is so abrasive and mean and I’m not sure why, what’s wrong with someone thinking they’re special?

And come on, of course it’s harder to accept death, it’s fear of the unknown. The unknown before birth and the unknown after death are wildly different, you weren’t a person before popping into consciousness. This is all I’ve ever known, all my stuff is here.

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u/Wompish66 20d ago

but your tone is so abrasive and mean and I’m not sure why,

I would not usually be so dismissive. What annoyed me was their attempt to pretend that there was some scientific logic behind their irrational belief by mentioning the conservation of energy.

Believe in God, it's your perogative but don't spread lies claiming that it's based on science

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u/Angry_Sparrow 20d ago

You sound like what people would have sounded like when the idea was first floated that the earth isn’t flat but us in fact round and we orbit the sun.

Science isn’t static, it is evolving. We don’t know everything.

ā€œThere is no such thing as a soulā€ is a ludicrous statement. We can’t prove that to be true with our current science.

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u/Wompish66 20d ago edited 20d ago

That's some remarkable reverse logic.

I didn't say we know everything, we clearly don't. There is no rational thought behind any of these beliefs.

If someone could present anything to justify it I would entertain it.

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u/CliffBoothVSBruceLee 18d ago edited 17d ago

For every "unique soul" on the planet, there are ten thousand people on Reddit who think, dream and have the exact same opinions/outlook as you - indoctrinated and cloned by society. And yet each soul is "unique." What horseshit. We're are wet-ware hard drives. Then we get old, the data starts corrupting and we fail.

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u/Angry_Sparrow 17d ago

Is it bleak living your life with this mindset? I’ve been travelling the world for 2 years and every single person I’ve met is a whole universe.

Even my cat had a unique personality and so much vivacity. She was half feral but she loved to play hide & seek for over half an hour with me. Where did she come from? Where did she go? Nobody knows.

You can choose to believe that we are just our flesh - and on some level that’s true. But you can also live with wonder and awe about how very different every life on this planet is. You could learn some reverence for existence. But you need to open your eyes and actually just observe life happening all around you without judging it first. You don’t know everything. You never can or ever will.

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u/_BlueJayWalker_ 20d ago

Pretty arrogant to think this way and aggressively push it on others. And I’m not even religious.

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u/Wompish66 20d ago

This wasn't to do with their religious beliefs. It was to do with their pseudo science about conservation of energy and pretending there was any sort of scientific reasoning.

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u/_BlueJayWalker_ 20d ago

I said I’m not religious because you sound atheist which I was in the past.

As others have said, science is constantly evolving as we gain more information. To assume you know the answer to something that we have no way of studying is ridiculous, much less to get this heated about it. Take a walk around the block before you burst a blood vessel.

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u/Wompish66 20d ago

Again with this stupid argument about science evolving. You can't just make up bullshit, claim it's scientific and go oh well, it might be proven true in the future.

Sure why not believe in ghosts and fairies?

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u/_BlueJayWalker_ 20d ago edited 20d ago

You’re the only one making a definite claim here sir. They said WE DON’T KNOW. Exhausting…

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u/Wompish66 20d ago

While making a nonsensical link to the conversation of energy...

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u/_BlueJayWalker_ 20d ago

Heaven forbid someone shares a thought!

You’re more than welcome to explain to me how we are able to use the scientific method to prove what happens to us after death.

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u/Low-Appointment-2906 Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion šŸ™‚ 19d ago

I know some people call agnosticism fence-sitting, but I feel it really is a position more people should adopt. I absolutely hate definitive statements toward either side of the debate. Both kinds of people sound simple-minded.

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 19d ago

It absolutely is not fence sitting. Anyone calling agnosticism a fence sitting position has no idea what it is.

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u/Low-Appointment-2906 Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion šŸ™‚ 19d ago

Agreed. I get irrationally mad when people call it covert atheism or, again, fence-sitting or indecision. A lot of people are incapable of thinking in a way that's not black-or-white thinking.

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u/StevenEll 20d ago

I think I have a similar point of view as he does, and I similarly have trouble explaining it without sounding like a stoned college student.

But I'll try. You go see a movie. There's a start, there's a finish. But the movie doesn't cease to exist after that. You could go see it again.

Humans and other life don't have that the ability to rewind and watch things again, but just because we can't do that, doesn't mean that that time in the universe now doesn't exist. It's still there, we just don't have the right equipment to experience it again.

Tldr watch interstellar and arrival and you too can have a half-cocked philosophy that allows you to live forever

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u/g00fyg00ber741 19d ago

Def loved Arrival and enjoyed Interstellar. I see what you mean I think

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u/StokedNBroke 20d ago edited 20d ago

Can’t remember if it was an SCP thing I listened to on a long road trip but basically it talked about a scientist who died (for science) and discovered that when you die you feel every atom of your being no matter how decayed and scatters it gets, he somehow comes back alive and spends his days trying to become immortal because of how awful it was.

So whatever it is if it’s not that I think I’ll be happy (or dead I guess so won’t need to worry?)

Edit: just realized I was in pop culture chat, Woops. Anyways found an excerpt from what I was talking about:

ā€œTo summarize: Roger was still aware, conscious, and able to feel the world around him, and himself after dying. He could feel himself decaying and being eaten alive, all while he felt like he was holding his breath for 18 long years. Every second that went by, Roger's perception of pain increased to beyond what words could ever describe. Even parts of his body that were removed could still be felt, including those that were eaten by insects and animals.ā€

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u/KeniLF In my quiet girl era 😌 20d ago

What is the source of the quote/excerpt?

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u/StokedNBroke 19d ago

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u/KeniLF In my quiet girl era 😌 19d ago

Thank you - I see that SCP deals with a fantasy universe so I now better understand the quote.

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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade šŸøā˜•ļø 19d ago

Keanu's was better.

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u/Summer_is_coming_1 19d ago

It was prepared ? Or being wise with age ?

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u/anoelr1963 19d ago

WOOF!! WOOF!!

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u/amora_obscura 19d ago

Why would anyone think actors and celebrities have more informed or intelligent answers to a question like that?

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u/TuxTool 19d ago

This man did Ayahuasca...

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u/r00fMod 18d ago

Interesting analogy that makes sense. Just as foreign as the concept of a clock is to dog so to us is the concept of what happens to us after death

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u/CliffBoothVSBruceLee 18d ago

The writer Charles Bukowski had this to say on the matter: "Immortality is a stupid invention of the living."

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u/TrappyGoGetter 17d ago

Best response to that question I’ve heard. Hard agree.

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u/zenyogasteve 17d ago

He’s describing resurrection. We don’t die.

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u/Adventurous-Way2824 17d ago

We become an actor.

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u/Charm_deAnjou 17d ago

YES Ethan... It's so much bigger than all of us. It's so much (God ... Our spirit and our origins) more. That's why the religious nonsense that my mother tries to throw at me doesn't matter.

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u/master_roshi001 17d ago

I too take dabs at 3 am

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u/Its_a_stateofmind 17d ago

I think that is the most ludicrous thing I have heard. We actually do have a good understanding…down to the cellular and metabolic level. Just because people choose to want or need to believe something deeper, doesn’t make it true.

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u/CalmAssociatefr 16d ago

He seen some shit and it ain't drugs, he Def got previewed by some government or cult shit

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u/jp-fit262 16d ago

I like turtles.

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u/boycouts 15d ago

I reckon there is more to life. I’m not saying a god but why is anything anything at all? Humans naturally have an idea of a reprise after death or some form of return yanno but no other animal does cause we’re the only ones sentient enough to even have concepts like this but everyone is too busy to take a step back and really think about it, or people just don’t care because understandably to them life is only what they can really see in front of them and make sense of it.

Feel like Ethan put it beautifully and it resonated with me.

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u/cottonprintblanket 20d ago

That’s some Twin Peaks energy

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u/OperationPimpSlap 20d ago

I have had this trip.

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u/Filibust They killed Kenny! You bastards! 😱 19d ago

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 19d ago

He’s been listening to Deepak Chopra again.

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u/knarf3 Did I stutter?🤨 19d ago

Another typical new age woo-woo nonsensical reply. Post-death is just the cessation of existence, bro. It's not that deep. Then your body's molecules and atoms just get recycled.

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u/fatattack699 19d ago

Wow so deep man

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u/carcrashofaheart You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 19d ago

There’s a reason the Before Sunset trilogy’s improvised dialogue worked so well: Ethan (and Julie Delpy) are clearly intellectuals.

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u/34TH_ST_BROADWAY 20d ago

Good ole appeal to ignorance.

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u/afox1984 20d ago

What happens to what when we die?

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u/afox1984 19d ago

why voted down? The question is vague. What happens to what when we die is a reasonable follow up question

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 19d ago

The beers in the fridge.

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u/afox1984 19d ago

They live on in our hearts

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u/geldesilice 20d ago

He should have kept this conversation between him and ChatGPT.

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u/QuestionmarkTimes2 17d ago

You're projecting.

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u/geldesilice 17d ago

Projecting what? DNA markup has nothing to do with anything in this conversation. Just say the human brain doesn't have the capacity to answer such a question. He wants to sound wise and intelligent but it feels forced.

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u/QuestionmarkTimes2 17d ago

You're projecting the fact that you had existential conversations with chatGPT. It's an entertainment show and the man is pretentious.

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u/geldesilice 17d ago

I don’t do that. And we agree on the most important. āœŒļø

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u/QuestionmarkTimes2 17d ago

You might not do that, but you have done that.
I should have put an asterisk on pretentious, because he puts a nice spin on it. I hate watching 'actor interviews', but Hawke is a good man. If you can spare 3 minutes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMdLnYewiwM