• Zozano@lemy.lol
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    3 months ago

    I got to believe sometimes in that theory that when we should’ve died, our consciousness escapes to a parallel reality.

    I have had too many close calls. Statistically, I probably shouldn’t be alive.

    This one time my motorbikes front brake seized up as I slowed down to an intersection. I was thrown off my bike and landed as the lane cleared.

    Then the time I worked as a glazier and this dipshit dropped a giant pane of glass on his toe, which snapped in half and almost decapitated me.

    Then another time I was a half-second away from being t-boned on my drivers side door by someone doing 80km/h, thank you videogames for training my spacial awareness and reaction time.

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      3 months ago

      Quote from “dead like me” “Death is kind of like sex in high school. If you knew how many times you missed having it, you’d be paralyzed.”

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      3 months ago

      IIRC, it was Neal Stephenson’s Anathem that had a similar line of thought. It was something to the effect of your consciousness warping to a parallel reality at the moment of death, provided there was a reality where you were still alive.