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I've been asked how I can possibly sleep at night, thinking that my existance is bound to be short and, should I die during my sleep, I simply won't exist anymore.  This doesn't trouble me because hey, I won't care that I'm dead, because I'll be dead.  Yes, I'd really like to keep living, but once I'm dead it really won't bother me.  If I had an aftelife to go to, I'd miss everything I left behind on Earth.  So as far as I'm concerned, nothing leaves your body when you die - all of your consciousness is still there, in the same way your contacts stay on your phone after you've turned it off.  Except you can't turn a human back on again.

I've been asked how I can possibly sleep at night, thinking that my existance is bound to be short and, should I die during my sleep, I simply won't exist anymore.  This doesn't trouble me because hey, I won't care that I'm dead, because I'll be dead.  Yes, I'd really like to keep living, but once I'm dead it really won't bother me.  If I had an aftelife to go to, I'd miss everything I left behind on Earth.  So as far as I'm concerned, nothing leaves your body when you die - all of your consciousness is still there, in the same way your contacts stay on your phone after you've turned it off.  Except you can't turn a human back on again.

Yes, it's depressing, but my conscience tells me that it must be so - I can't lie to myself and believe in heaven or a soul.  If Christians are right (out of the countless religions on Earth, if Christianity turns out to be the correct religion) then I'm sure an all-forgiving, benevolent God will see that I've led a life free of major sins and have always striven to do what I believe to be right.  Why would he punish me for falling for the traps that, by all rights, he put there for me, like all those pesky fossils?

Yes, it's depressing, but my conscience tells me that it must be so - I can't lie to myself and believe in heaven or a soul.  If Christians are right (out of the countless religions on Earth, if Christianity turns out to be the correct religion) then I'm sure an all-forgiving, benevolent God will see that I've led a life free of major sins and have always striven to do what I believe to be right.  Why would he punish me for falling for the traps that, by all rights, he put there for me, like all those pesky fossils? [[User:LibAsCanBe|LibAsCanBe]] 18:53, 24 September 2008 (EDT)