I have 4th stage prostate cancer so I will dies soon. Dying is not a problem more how I have lived is of interest. My view is that we are just one species of animal which has been given the opportunity to think, remember and reason. I find it pretty incredible, given how insignificant we are in the the cosmos that we cling to the idea that we are somehow special, that there is a creator which is interested in us and will grant us eternal life. It seems to me that together with self awareness comes the urge to fantasize about nearly everything. Entertainment, drugs, religion, human rights - all forms of escapism and wanting things to be other than they are point to a refusal to accept the world as it is. Most people seem to desperately want things to be anything other that they are. And even faced with the most stark evidence they shy away from accepting the truth. Death is not the problem, how to live is.
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Yes, yes and yes! I came to a similar view later in my life rather than earlier. Too bad for me but better late than never I guess. I wish you continuing peace and happiness on your journey. We are all headed in the same direction. 
patchoullijulie
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Feb 12, 2020
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believe it or not the belief system we know as "Christians" today are actually really prolly Cult of Sol Invictus, with Jesus playing the role of Mercury, "returning" to take them to the Elysian Fields, in a dress, basically...and the Bible has all this in it, kinda in code, Apollos waters how weird is that? immortality has always been the ultimate escape, yeh
I came that you might have life, more abundantly altho of course that rings as religious now
anyway, a search of "Mithraism and..." will auto-complete for "Christianity" for more
bbyrd009
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Feb 11, 2020
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I take some comfort in knowing that there will be other members of my species living after I'm dead, just as other members of my species came before. I'm not responsible for the ones who came before, and I'm not responsible for the ones who will come after. But we seem to be pretty clever and able to take care of ourselves as a group.
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