maybe I'm just young still, but I don't fear death. It was around the age of 25, in an auto-accident that I realized and accepted how mortal I really am, and developed the idea that most people are "religious" (to whatever extent) in large part because they don't want to accept that they are mortal. At some point some guys conceived the idea of a soul, as in something that exists separately from the physical body of a person, and can continue to exist after the physical body ceases to function, and even after it ceases to exist. Well, that is total rubbish and merely wishful thinking, and one of the most ludicrous ideas expounded on in religions... the only idea I can think of that's more ludicrous isn't immaculate conception or resurrection or prophecy, all of which are similarly ludicrous, but not as preposterous as the fable in the first page of the bible that woman was created from a man's rib.
2007-01-12
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