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In reply to the discussion: When you die, there will be nobody waiting to greet you [View all]Cal33
(7,018 posts)probably lasted through most of your chlldhood years. It's possibly also difficult
for you to deal with ambivalence. You seem to need to know "for sure. And
you are looking for this certainty in science.
You must surely know by now that even though science has made great strides,
what science does know and can prove is only a very tiny fraction of what it does
not know, but can only guess at.
It's good to be able to feel comfortable in accepting as fact that there will always
be doubts and ambiguities in living our daily physical lives. Feeling uncomfortable
about this (whether we are conscious of it or not) only causes us unnecessary pain.
It's of no positive use to us at all.
I was raised in Catholicism and also had to wade through a lot of bs. I was
an agnostic for nearly 40 years. Then I began to learn not to throw away the baby
together with the bath-water.