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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2023-03-20 05:08 pm

[ SECRET POST #5918 ]


⌈ Secret Post #5918 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2023-03-22 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
AYRT

Split this into two posts, with general fictionkin stuff above and personal stuff here. I'm a third-generation atheist, and my impressions of what can exist have changed over time. I've never had any reason to take the monotheistic notion of god seriously, but personal experiences with close relatives have led me to question the premise that being dead is synonymous with being gone. This was somewhat disconcerting for me because I was at peace with the premise that they and I would disappear. But I don't ignore evidence just because I have a coherent worldview that it contradicts. (At the same time, I don't expect anyone else to believe this is or isn't a thing based on events I know I didn't make up, but I have no way of proving actually happened.) This has put me in the position of having exactly the same reputation I always had, in relation to Christians (who are about as uncomfortable with people believing their continued existence doesn't depend on a god as they are with people believing there is nothing to dread or look forward to after death), but less in common with the sorts of atheists that assert anything science hasn't already explained can't possibly exist.

What 'kin are asserting, if you take the premise seriously, is that intelligent life circulates between a space where we can imagine things that we know don't exist (right now), and being embodied. And given that I'm more inclined to see the body as a conduit more than a pure generator, that doesn't seem especially kooky to me. It's not relevant to what I think about myself, but I don't laugh at the possibility. Your mileage will vary, of course.