I can handle collapse and have been preparing for it for several years, but there are certain things I'm simply not willing to accept. It needs to be a somewhat balanced collapse. Something along the lines of V would be much more interesting to me than Terminator. In the Terminator future, I envisioned a bunch of people hiding in foxholes clutching a gun for dear life as the cold dusty wind blows across a forlorn post-apocalyptic landscape where they are scrounging for food while trying not to get picked off one by one by genocidal robots. At my level of being, if I don't have some serious 4D powers by that point as an equalizer, there is absolutely no "payoff" that makes that worthwhile and death is preferable. I would hate my life and the universe so much in such a circumstance that it is more sensible to simply exit. I am skeptical that the future would go down exactly like that, but it could. Terminator makes for good theatrics as a cautionary tale about what AI could ultimately do, but it is something that should never be experienced to the degree depicted in the films, and won't be experienced by me.
Hi Neil,
well, personally I don't think that the collapse is going to meet our needs unfortunately, but also... it is already happening.
I understand the freight of being alone against hyper dimensional agendas collapsing on one's head, but also.. it's not unfair, it isn't unjust and it certainly isn't personal, and thinking of a "payoff" IMO is one of those things that keeps one stuck in 3D existence, and aligns one with STS principles, and that can only end in precisely a reality with no Payoff, or one where someone else takes your payoff.
I personally see it a bit differently, perhaps a bit more rebellious, if the goal of those who control and own this planet is to maul the human spirit to the point where we loose the will to live, then I will see my life, as an act of defiance against those very PTB who would have me merely exist.
With full awareness that hardship, heartbreak, sorrow and pain will forever remain part of it. there's no way to get around it. And staying with the fictional analogies, I recently heard a phrase uttered that stuck with me: "Death can have me, when it earns me..."
IF, they're going to come for me, with terminator robots, then they shall find me afraid.. sure, but alive, I wouldn't make their job easier.
But also, sometimes it's not so much bravery and rebelliousness, sometimes it's curiosity for what comes next.
In the meantime, we have each other to help us go through the hopelessness, we share our burden.