(December 22, 2014 at 2:24 pm)Nope Wrote:(December 22, 2014 at 12:05 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: I suspect death of yourself or a loved one is painful regardless of your belief or disbelief in an afterlife.
I'm not certain why they had no hope or vision.
Most of my hopes are based on reality. For example, I hope that my family likes their Christmas gifts. That hope is based on the fact that I bought them Christmas gifts-a reality. It would be absurd for me to hope that they like gifts that I wanted to magically appear in my house with no effort from me to go get them. That is the difference between my form of hope and a religious person's. I hope for things that have a reasonable-even if it is slight-chance of coming true.
Perception alters reality.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
