I've had a fear my whole life that I first became aware of when I was about 5. Which is not being conscious, or not existing rather. Not being aware of anything. I didn't dream until I was about 5. But my earliest nightmares would be about my body slowly disapearing, until I vanished, and then cut to black. It terrfied me. As I got older, I would get a periodic bout of extreme fear of the thought of not existing. Not too often, every couple months or so. And I would pray, and ask god to please send me to heaven when I died. I also would get this extremely creeped out vibe sometimes that would scare me when I imagined god reading my thoughts. I would think "Wow, he's reading my thoughts. CREEPY......!! Oh no he heard that!!! Sorry god XD. He knows I think it's creepy, ah he heard that!"
LOL. Interested in hearing others stories.
Darren: Yes, my fear is not as strong as it once was. I think that when I have lived a long, and fufilled life, I will be glad to accept the peace of death, and allow my atoms to join the universe to make new things. I think my fear now mostly revolves around dying before I get to that peaceful point where I want it.
Cad: I don't eat meat because meat had parasites, and fat and other unhealthy things in it. But to answer your question, no I don't see a difference in eating dog, or horse, or cow. I also don't get offended when people drown puppies or something, we do much worse to lifestock animals, and it's all legal. Why is shoving a live wire up a fox's rectum legal as long as you're harvesting its fur, but if you put a kitten in the microwave and it dies, you go to jail? I see zero difference.
You're also wrong, there are atheistic societies. The idea of a god is not universal. And even if it was, it wouldn't prove the existence of a god, just that religious thinking is universal. It still could have just evolved as a coping mechanism for death.
And I'm sorry, but I laughed out loud when you said my 5 year old self wasn't thinking a pure thought that came from my own mind. My thinking was unbiased, and all my own at that point.
LOL. Interested in hearing others stories.
Darren: Yes, my fear is not as strong as it once was. I think that when I have lived a long, and fufilled life, I will be glad to accept the peace of death, and allow my atoms to join the universe to make new things. I think my fear now mostly revolves around dying before I get to that peaceful point where I want it.
Cad: I don't eat meat because meat had parasites, and fat and other unhealthy things in it. But to answer your question, no I don't see a difference in eating dog, or horse, or cow. I also don't get offended when people drown puppies or something, we do much worse to lifestock animals, and it's all legal. Why is shoving a live wire up a fox's rectum legal as long as you're harvesting its fur, but if you put a kitten in the microwave and it dies, you go to jail? I see zero difference.
You're also wrong, there are atheistic societies. The idea of a god is not universal. And even if it was, it wouldn't prove the existence of a god, just that religious thinking is universal. It still could have just evolved as a coping mechanism for death.
And I'm sorry, but I laughed out loud when you said my 5 year old self wasn't thinking a pure thought that came from my own mind. My thinking was unbiased, and all my own at that point.