Personally, I don't really have much faith that anything happens to us after we die. It seems to me that the highest probability is that the electrical signals in our brain dissipate, the chemical messages stored in our brain cells decompose, and who we are fades away as our bodies slowly become fuel energy for other forms of life along the food chain.
Now, I'm not saying that I _like_ this, or _want_ this. I'd be happy to go play a harp on a cloud or be reincarnated or whatever it is. I mean, why not? I like life.
But what I want has no effect on how things are.
My question is this: if you believe in an afterlife, is there any possibility that at least part of your belief is founded on the idea that you don't want to contemplate the alternative?
2006-08-12
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