(August 12, 2011 at 8:41 pm)C Rod Wrote: The last part should say ",well" not ",will". I am grasping at a truth of reality and importance. I think when talking about importance or known reality, analogies are just an easy dodge to persuade any real consideration.
Actually, analogies are a very good tool to explain something in an understandable way, which is why great literature is filled with them.
From what I can tell from your answer, you are basically saying the afterlife gives you hope, which is why it is important to you. I, however, was making the point that it's better to base your beliefs on reality and not on something that is fantasy but makes you feel well. At first glimpse, life can appear to be harsh and cold without things such as god and the afterlife, but they don't have to be.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell