What happens after death?
What do you believe? What do you want to believe?
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What do you believe? What do you want to believe?
I find it disturbing that we do not know. I find it disturbing that each culture teaches a religion of its own, and usually more than one, but each as if it is the only answer. This is illogical. It is illogical that Catholics think they are the only ones going to heaven. It is illogical that Baptists think the same ... and you better be the "right kind" of Baptist to boot. Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses use the same book and yet have different ideas. Christianity comes from Judaism, and yet when Jesus said to do things different from the Jews, Catholics copied many of the same failings. It is exhausting. I feel like we are being tricked. How can the Old Testament say things so sternly and that we are so evil, and then Jesus comes and says he can get us forgiven if we believe. If we believe? How can we believe when it's all so confusing and illogical? Just give us the straight, short truth without a huge book that makes women particularly feel worthless, and therefore assume that men wrote it from a cultural view that is not actually true. It should all be true and straightforward and explain instead of telling stories without explanation. Do you know a donkey spoke to a man in the Bible? Spoke out loud to him. That's what it says.
But we do know, we have observed it countless times throughout history. We observe it every day. We lose consciousness, the organs ans systems throughout our body stop functioning, and our bodies start to decompose. If we didn't know this is what happens when you die, we wouldn't be able to recognize that someone was dead.
The reason religious explanations are contradictory is because they are nonsense fairly tales that people use to delude themselves into believing something illogical that is completely contradictory to what we can clearly observe.
Nothing, not blackness, nothing. People desperately want to believe that their personality and who they are is some living thing that can go somewhere else or be something else. It's not. We die and our identity dies with us. It's the result of an overly complex human thought process, not a mystical being.