My missive to a Friend trying to convince me 'eternal souls' are a real thing ...

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. What happens is that the living will perceive 'signs' as a result of grief/stress

You look for signs, because you want there to be signs, and your brain either manifests them or mistakes normal corporeal things ... as magical.

Our perceptions are far from perfect. We think they are, but they're not.

Anything that looks like magic is in some sense ... a trick. An illusion.

There's no magic. No ghosts or afterlives or souls or any of that sort of thing.

But the actual, physical lives we've all gotten to lead? Are so much more than miraculous than any of us had any right to hope for. The time we got to exist on Earth as these intelligent beings? It could be the first time in, say 100 Million Years, that within 10,000 light years from earth, creatures like us existed for a few 1000 years. Random numbers because I obvs I don't really know, but point is, we're all so, so ... unlikely.

Why do you insist there's a magical, unexplainable overlay on the whole thing? If there's magic in the universe that powerful, then hell, why wasn't the Earth created like it says in the Bible? 6000 years ago?

I mean, once you start randomly believing in whatever random magical concept suits you, what's to rule out ANYTHING from being true? Like God and Heaven and Hell?