How Does Not Having Faith Effect Your Life
How Does Not Having Faith Effect Your Life
Occasionally find myself envying people with faith and wonder how my life is different than theirs.
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I don't handle loss well. To religious people it's temporary because they believe they'll reconnect in the afterlife. To me it's permanent and I haven't found a good way to cope yet.
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For me, that’s fine. Never cared much about death. They’re done suffering, at least. It’s the suffering I can’t stand. But I wouldn’t want to believe in anything that would make me be okay with/cope more with/be less mad about people suffering. I want to stay mad about suffering and do something about it.
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When I'm feeling sad about the people I've lost over the years, I like to ponder the vast gulf of time and possibility that lies ahead. The human mind is probably not as complicated and unique as we like to think, so perhaps someday there'll be an ancestor simulation of some sort in which we get to meet again.
Your username is quite suited to this mindset so hopefully it helps. :)
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A similar thought down that line has helped a little. If space and time are infinite, then who's to say that anyone is ever truly gone. Their number just needs to come up again.
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To put it in mathematical terms, people are subject to Poincaré recurrence given enough time and space.
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