You might.
But there are millions of people who don't know or don't care.

So then, we could slowly replace god with education. Then we'd only be left with the people that don't care.

And **** them amirite

Like I said, I keep my beliefs to myself, etc.

I find that folks like or are comforted by a belief. Some need a more extravagant singular belief or even complex system of interrelated ideas to support the comfort.

Perhaps they are the evolutionary pinnacle of the primordial ooze.
Star children. Descendants of Noah. Emanations of the great eagle. Reincarnations of a grasshopper. Big bang blau! Even the lack of adopting a belief.
Whatever brings comfort when they are really seeking it.

My curiosity relates to deviations from the norm, as it relates to human pursuit of that comfort.

Does an extension of the belief, making killing a nonbeliever, push the deviation closer or farther from "normal"? Belief is THE greatest cause of death, bar none. Does that normalize or wreck the curve?

I have things I believe. A few of them would lead to me ending a nonbeliever. And there would be comfort in the end, for one of us.

Normal?

I believe since we're on the internet, there's no harm in you knowing what I may or may not believe.

Since we are internet besties...you can believe as you wish, and I'll still let you visit my home.
But don't forget about the 4000 mile knife.

I'd love fire there to be an afterlife but I don't see a reason to believe it exists

There are plenty of reasons to believe, but not much evidence

OMG freudian slip, u want to go to hell

As j said there is obviously a comfort component to believing in an afterlife.

Ernest Becker has an idea that people try to overcome their fear of death by becoming invested in an "immortality project". Something that lives on beyond that persons life. Weather its writing a book, having children or believing in an afterlife, the unconscious mind will invest itself in something which will outlive the body.

Basically we're all terrified of dying and the mind does funny things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death

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I should not make such ambiguous statements. I'm not a ******, I realise the reasons, I'm simply saying that for me it's not something I consider worth worrying about

They find comfort in the belief that they will live on, I happen to think being dead and gone forever is perfectly acceptable.

Nice 1.

Dead and gone where?


Almost the theory of suicide.

You don't remember Sunday morning story time in OMG?
:crushed:

You know I u despite your best attempts to force your religious beliefs upon us.

So that one time the chair moved across my room was just the wind? I'm sure it was just the wind (despite all the closed doors and windows and that my grandpappy died only a few days earlier)?

, I blame my phone

I rebuke your BlackBerry!

I am Croatian. We believe.

I dunno about perfectly acceptable, it sucks balls, but it's our lot innit.




Sunday mornings are normally a bit of a blur tbh. I think it was good




My granny loved Doritos. Cheese, chilli, cool; it didn't matter. You could open any cupboard in her house and you'd find a mountain of Doritos. Multipacks? She loveed an aul multipack.

Then when she passed, everyone was gathered as she was laid to rest. And just as they lowered the coffin, an empty bag of doritos blew across the graveyard. That was her!

That story was plagiarised from a Peter Kay joke and I didn't mean to disrespect my granny

Peter who?