(November 28, 2017 at 9:43 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:(November 28, 2017 at 7:53 pm)Joods Wrote: Bold mine.
I don't agree with that. The two aren't mutually exclusive. I am terrified of death. I still don't believe in a god though and I have yet to see evidence of any sort of afterlife.
Same here. I’m not afraid of stupid shit like hell. I’m convinced that it, or any other kind of afterlife, does not exist. What scares me is non-existence. Of everything that I am simply ceasing to be. Of no longer having any kind of awareness.
And, I think that similar thoughts are what convinced early peoples to concoct things like an afterlife or reincarnation. Because it’s utterly terrifying if you actually think about it.
Give it a few decades, and I'll bet that changes. I didn't exist until just over 65 years less than the universe existed. That's a long stretch of time. I won't exist forever after that, but I'll know as much about that as I did the first stretch of billions of years. I can't do a thing about that, and I don't want to. YMMV
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.