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1. There most probably nothing after death, since every idea of what we think as an afterlife is just our wishful thinking that we have no basis for believing in.

2. Existence has no inherent meaning. Although life doesn't "lack" meaning because there was never room for meaning to begin with, life is a fact not a meaning.

3. Humans have an inherent need for meaning in a universe were meaning is irrelevant, this is absurd. We either tend to make a leap of faith to something abstract and irrational or turn to physical escape or destruction to escape this absurdity, but one ought to embrace the absurdity instead.

4. However, one should not reject life nor turn to faith when facing this crippling reality. One should instead accept this fact and still rejoice in life and its small things despite or because of their "lack of" meaning, because the fact of these things existing ought to be enough. Or if you will, may the joy and appreciation of "meaninglessness" be an act of rebellion.

5. Death is not the opposite of life, but an innate preconditioned part of it. Death is not something to fear, avoid, lament or hate. Death is outside our control, our view of death is our responsibility, and we can learn to accept it as a part of life, as neither good nor bad. Grief is of course important when experiencing the death of someone, and it ought to be practiced in a healthy way.

7. "Protect time like your money". Value your time and don't waste any time in the day on the trivial and vain. Don't waste time worrying on problems one can't do anything about, and act instead of worry about problems one can do something about.

8. Try to remember and cherish more than regret or mourning things and experiences.

Modern 21^st century usage of ego deaths usually refers to our self-esteem, and our tendency to defend our self-esteem against attack, and our tendency to view the world in terms of our perceived identities. E.g. if people identify themselves in terms of their political preferences, social status, skill set, general concensus of physical attractiveness, then they will defend these abstractions as they defend themselves, and they will interact with the world as members of these groups.

These things are external to us, they come and go and there is no need to cling to them, and that it is a falsehood to identify one's own self-entity with them. Our real selves are our experience of our senses, emotions and thoughts, our judgment, will and capacity for choice. The part of you that is convinced of things, and that chooses things, is the real you. Everything else is external to you, a thing that you might enjoy or use while it is available, something that is easy to use for information, but not part of your core self.

We are entities, we have ideas and beliefs of who we are that we identify with. These are identities. Identities might help convey information, but are in actuality external to us. We ought to stop forming self-images of ourselves from these identities since these external views of ourselves are clouding our experience as self-entities. This is because our self-entities are in fact impossible for us to concretely think of.

 

 

Unblock your survival from fear, pleasure from regret, willpower from shame, love from grief, truth from lies, insight from illusion and pure conscience of experience from worldly desires to reach one’s own full and true potential.

10. One ought to follow a Nonviolent Communication (NVC) style, also called Giraffe language, to reach the most effective, optimal and rational conclusion. Explain the situation/problem, explain how it affects, explain what is needed, and give suggestions how to compromise.