MU

[dreamer_067]

At one point in How to Read 13, Obata said, “…I’m personally very scared about what happens to us after we die. Ever since I was young, I would think about going to hell and get really scared, but at some point I started thinking about how ‘nothingness’ is even scarier than hell.”

Discussion :D : Do you agree with Obata about “nothingness” (

Comments

[dreamer_067]

That's exactly how I feel. :S I'm not very good at discussions XD Sorry...

I always imagine hell being full of demons/devils whipping your ass as you go on carrying big giant rocks up a large hill for all eternity (or something like that). XD

[yumexxxchan]

Well, I guess it is pretty terrible to be in nothingness for eternity with a consciousness. That is if we still possess a consciousness after death. I don't really believe that we do, but if we did at least we'd get to think for eternity ^^;;

I'd much prefer that over hell.

[reikai_chibi]

I think that hell would be about equal to MU. Nothingness is in fact scary. No one to talk to or anything. *shudders*

[sayuri2023]

According to some, MU meant the Shinigami World. But I'm not so sure. There's heaven, hell, mortal land, shinigami world, and Nothingness. I'm confused about the concept really. Shouldn't Nothingness be preferred over getting tortured in hell?

[serria]

I don't think Heaven and Hell exist in the Death Note universe. It's stated in the Death Note that all humans go to MU, without exception, so. ^^ I think Heaven/Hell are just made up by humans. Ryuk seems surprised when Light figures out the truth, saying something like, "I thought all humans believed in that stuff?"

As for the Shinigami World, I sort of think of it as closer to the human world than any kind of afterlife. Shinigami can die, too, so it doesn't make sense that that'd be an afterlife, in my opinion. :)

[viola_canina]

I actually interpret this nothingness as lack of personal consciousness and identity (among other things), in fact. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I see it. In other words, you just... die and stop feeling, thinking, etc., your brain stops functioning. I don't find that too scary, to be honest. ^^;;; But nothingness as absolute loneliness (WITH consciousness) is certainly worse.

[dunkler_ort]

That's what I interpreted it as - that you basically stop existing. That's probably the best I can hope for after death. I used to be a hardcore Christian but... things change. Strange as it seems, I don't really like the idea of an afterlife.

[viola_canina]

Yeah, exactly. There are many reasons why I don't support any religions, but I, too, don't like the idea of afterlife all that much.

[serria]

Agreed! I never thought of MU (Nothingness) as you floating around in empty space. Otherwise there'd be a damn lot of humans floating around and it really wouldn't properly be a Nothingness. To be a part of Nothingness, you have to become Nothingness, too. Right?