chrwe
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Poor man. I know exactly how you feel up to a certain degree.
I also do not want to believe we are gone after we die - as in "oblivion" - but scientific evidence is screaming it into my face.
The only things that help me are:
1. It is an undeniable fact that I am alive at the moment. Therefore, I can enjoy and love or suffer and antagonize. It is up to me. Now, do you really need a higher purpose to choose the first option? I dont. If it gets too bad, there is medicine that can help you - get counselling, see a psychiatrist. Now. Do it.
2. It is an undeniable fact that science doesnt have a clue why anything exists at all. Oh, they have theories on the big bang etc., but the "why" is a mystery.
3. Human consciousness, while undeniably tied to the brain and totally gone or altered if the brain is damaged, is still a largely unexplored phenomenon. Every neuroscientists worth her salt will admit to you they havent solved the whole riddle yet. I will only say "placebo effect" and neuro-linguistic programming - I mean, what is it about the "I" that programs my own brain?
4. Think about how many facts that science was 100% convinced of have changed in the last 100 years.
All these are not good hopes, but they do pose loopholes for some form of hope even to the critical mind, dont they?
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