Losing (Some of) My Fear of Death (without Religion)
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2013 Jul 19, 7:12am 23,409 views 47 comments
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2014 Oct 10, 1:41pm
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2014 Oct 10, 1:41pm
So logic dictates you buy into a mutual fund of religions. spread the risk around so you don't get hurt. believe in anything and everything!
The sad thing is that people who believe in afterlife will never know they were wrong.
It seems unfair.And on the flip side, if they are correct ... you'll end up in a heap of trouble.
Yes, but that's potentially true for everyone.
Suppose you're a good christian and muslims have it right.
Then you're in a heap of trouble...
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About three weeks ago I was having blood drawn and I passed out. The nurses said I was "out" for 20 or 30 seconds. Amazingly, I didn't even notice.
At one moment there was just the one nurse drawing blood. Immediately afterward (from my perspective) there were three nurses propping me up, asking me if I could hear them. From my perspective, the transition was totally seamless. I experienced *nothing at all* during that 30 seconds...no darkness...not even time.
Has anyone else out there had a similar experience? Or should I say: "non-experience"?
Since that episode, I have been much less afraid of death. It turns out that "nothingness" wasn't as terrifying as I had imagined. In fact, I didn't even notice it at all.
For some reason I had always imagined "nothingness" as darkness. It's almost impossible to imagine "nothing" so I imagined it as darkness. There's also a lot of cultural stuff out there equating death with blackness/darkness. But darkness is "something", not "nothing!" Oh how our imagination(s) can be our worst enemy!
Religion is one way people cope with the fear of death.
Maybe if we gave everyone the opportunity to be (safely) "knocked out" once in their lifetime, there would be less need for religion. (I'm joking...but only a little bit);-)