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In reply to the discussion: My missive to a Friend trying to convince me 'eternal souls' are a real thing ... [View all]Farmer-Rick
(10,391 posts)27. I like to think when I visit my dead spouse's grave
I get their atoms all over me.
They have been dead for over 4 years and some of the atoms that were inside them are surely being used by the grass and trees around them by now.
A devout Southern Baptist, it was their death that pushed me into letting go of all belief in the supernatural and a god. Actually that has brought me more peace than thinking of them in that awful notion of a heaven or hell. Good or bad, black or white, no middle ground?
Also, I like to think that an inanimate, unthinking universe has managed to create something that can understand it. That is just amazing. Who needs a god now?
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My missive to a Friend trying to convince me 'eternal souls' are a real thing ... [View all]
Hugh_Lebowski
Apr 2023
OP
What happens is that the living will perceive 'signs' as a result of grief/stress
Hugh_Lebowski
Apr 2023
#5
This atheist agrees. Still. Why do we imagine a distant past? Why science, beauty, stories, love?
ancianita
Apr 2023
#9
Thank you!!!!! I've referred people to his writing before. Also, Your Eternal Self (which deals with
Karadeniz
Apr 2023
#15
Yes humans could be hard wired to have fantasy religious beliefs as a coping mechanism.
Irish_Dem
May 2023
#29
If you get a PhD you quickly learn how rigid and narrow the academic community tends to be.
Irish_Dem
May 2023
#30
Because eastern religions already believe in reincarnation and have since ancient times.
Irish_Dem
May 2023
#31
I see a lot of the same old reactions here. There's tons of evidence about the existence of Mind
Karadeniz
Apr 2023
#14
The list of things that humans once believed had origins in Gods and Magic is IMMENSE
Hugh_Lebowski
Apr 2023
#19
No offense taken, but that Japanese physicist... you know him... said there were eleven
Karadeniz
May 2023
#28