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I’m not afraid at all. I can’t be sad about my body gradually breaking down and life leaving it because that’s the way of all things. I hope not to die in some excruciating manner but the chances are much smaller than they used to be. I can’t be sad about never seeing loved ones again because I don’t expect it.
Wel, I'm sorry to hear what it did to you. I was lucky. I was deluged by religion, but being a State church, is was sorta watered down like everything one gets from Government (except tax hikes and paperwork) and while the Church funded a lot of schools, the religion was Milquetoast, as the French say, and whatever reason people found to become religious, it wasn't down to indoctrination.
If there is a lesson there, it is that we owe it to our people (which translates from American to English as "You owe it to your people") to remove the indoctrination and allow schools to 'teach the controversy' - which means everything about religion and not just trying to make Bible -belief a condition for not getting a failing grade. (6)
(6) (I've always wanted to do that ) I watched a video where the creator (I mean of the video, not Him ) said that he wrote an essay on what's wrong with the Bible or religion and got a 'C" when they usually got A or B, and claims friends reading the essay said it was good.
Ok it's an anecdote and a pretty accusatory one, but from what I have seen, it sounds only too damn' likely.
Wel, I'm sorry to hear what it did to you. I was lucky. I was deluged by religion, but being a State church, is was sorta watered down like everything one gets from Government (except tax hikes and paperwork) and while the Church funded a lot of schools, the religion was Milquetoast, as the French say, and whatever reason people found to become religious, it wasn't down to indoctrination.
If there is a lesson there, it is that we owe it to our people (which translates from American to English as "You owe it to your people") to remove the indoctrination and allow schools to 'teach the controversy' - which means everything about religion and not just trying to make Bible -belief a condition for not getting a failing grade. (6)
(6) (I've always wanted to do that ) I watched a video where the creator (I mean of the video, not Him ) said that he wrote an essay on what's wrong with the Bible or religion and got a 'C" when they usually got A or B, and claims friends reading the essay said it was good.
Ok it's an anecdote and a pretty accusatory one, but from what I have seen, it sounds only too damn' likely.
I would say very likely, I seen it a million times, don't get me going.
I know right, It will also be so embarrassing or raw that I simply wont know where to look, maybe I can act like it is happening to somebody else. Maybe if you don't look at it, it wont happen.
As others have said, I fear the pain of the death process more than death itself. I believe that I will return to the same state I was in before I was born - nothingness. I didn't exist then, and I won't exist after death. I imagine it will feel natural when it happens, and I'll wonder what I was afraid of.
Our brains are wonderfully designed to release chemicals when we are at the point of death. I think this phenomenon explains all those near-death stories you hear about seeing a light at the end of a tunnel, seeing Jesus, seeing loved ones, etc. It is a hallucination generated by the brain to make the transition easier and more pleasant.
Last edited by Bayarea4; 11-04-2017 at 04:40 PM..
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Why are so many afraid of a painful death? That seems irrational to me, probably even more so than dying. We can't control the future...who knows how we'll die, could be quick and painless. So why the worry about the unknown that may never happen?
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) I watched a video where the creator (I mean of the video, not Him 
) said that he wrote an essay on what's wrong with the Bible or religion and got a 'C" when they usually got A or B, and claims friends reading the essay said it was good.
