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The truth is much more beautiful than the fairytale ever could be.
Truth?
Why shouldn't we consider your concept of reality a fairytail? After all, you haven't experienced death and come back to tell us what happens. So I guess we would just have to have blind irational faith in your opinion-right?
Apparently proselytizing is not allowed on these forums, so I am just going to leave you all with a thought: pretty much every culture that has ever existed had a concept of "God" or "gods", and in many cases, a God above all gods. What if you die tomorrow, and there was a God, who so many people before you believed in, at least indirectly, but you stubbornly denied? Have you ever doubted there may be a God?
I put the perfect quote to this by Thomas Jefferson in the favorite atheist thread. I'm not going to repeat that, but I'll say this: if there is a god, why would he care if I believe in him when he shows no evidence for his existence? Such a god would be a very childish god and certainly not worthy of my worship.
In the movie Gladiator starring Russell Crowe as Maximus, he utters the words at the end to Commodus, "I once knew a man who said that death smiles at us all and all a man can do is smile back."
I fear death, but not on a regular basis like I did as a young child who believed in a kind of relaxed version of Christianity with no hell. I used to be scared of everything. I was a very nervous kid. In my teenage years, I became somewhat of an atheist with a made up hypothetical view of the afterlife, which I kind of believed in to make myself feel better, but logically didn't believe in. I literally once went to sleep in a tent with a black widow spider in it because, when my tent partner awoke me at 2:00 am in the morning, my first thought was that "black widow spiders won't kill most people with a single bite anyway." My tent partner never slept in the same tent with me again.
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