(November 13, 2020 at 2:48 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(November 13, 2020 at 2:42 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Easy.
The alien doesn't exist and is just part of the childrens' imagination because they can't get over the fact that their existence is finite.
This fact scares them and they seek validation for their existence through fantasy.
Oh. And you think you got over the fact that your existence is finite ? The denial of death is a subconscious process and it doesn't help if you are an atheist. We just replaced this subsconscious process by belief in a deity, for good reasons -which are, by the way, equivalent to reasons for believing in any external truth. I am referring to Plantinga's God and other Minds here.
And, before you start prentending to have some mental strength we know from psychology nobody can possibly have, I have another book recommendation for you : read the Denial of death by Ernest Becker, it's a good book.
It's called acceptance of the inevitable.
Can't control it. Can't stop it.
Why invent an imaginary friend to calm you about it?
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
