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Originally Posted by Veridical Fiction
It says that people are afraid of death. Afraid of no longer existing and enjoying the things they currently enjoy.
Regardless of a belief in heaven or re-incarnation or whatever, the belief counters inevitability with possibility. To them, that's comforting because they don't have to live their lives being tortured by ticking clocks.
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I don't disagree with that. My point was, I don't care what it tells us about people, it doesn't tell us anything about an afterlife. Looking at this psychologically isn't going to give you anything.
The only thing that I would think has some bearing of a posthumous in the psychological area is that humans are hard wired for "religion." Now I can't imagine how an entire portion of a brain grows to recognize something that, as far as some posters here are concerned, doesn't exist.
And with regard to the "soul" problem presented a few posts back, dicuss what you'd like, but just because I don't believe that a Christian afterlife exists, doesn't mean i don't think an afterlife exists.
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Originally Posted by Veridical Fiction
If you knew how contradictory the sentences you just wrote are...
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Yeah I'm starting to think this guys a troll.