You offered suicide as a solution. I appeal for an equal chance to offer solace in anything up to and including that level of finality.
> But they are precisely that: your beliefs...I don't share them...they do not give you standing to say that my assumptions about what comes after death are wrong.
Actually my beliefs do exactly give me standing to say something about this. Unlike a belief in... well, a belief that nobody knows.
Lastly let me lovingly point out it is strange to find comfort in a pistol if you truly believe nobody knows... seems to me like you would do like any other gambler and hedge your bets, instead of leaning hard in one direction. But hey, I've acted irrationally before too. I get it.
You offered suicide as a solution. I appeal for an equal chance to offer solace in anything up to and including that level of finality.
> But they are precisely that: your beliefs...I don't share them...they do not give you standing to say that my assumptions about what comes after death are wrong.
Actually my beliefs do exactly give me standing to say something about this. Unlike a belief in... well, a belief that nobody knows.
Lastly let me lovingly point out it is strange to find comfort in a pistol if you truly believe nobody knows... seems to me like you would do like any other gambler and hedge your bets, instead of leaning hard in one direction. But hey, I've acted irrationally before too. I get it.