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fandomsecrets2025-09-11 06:32 pm
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[ SECRET POST #6824 ]
⌈ Secret Post #6824 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 17 secrets from Secret Submission Post #974.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: Religion. Inspired by the fandom VS christianity secret.
(Anonymous) 2025-09-12 02:58 am (UTC)(link)but I'm an ex-christian like the secret OP. I've been there and done that, I've seen things, I know things. there's no way I'll go back to that ignorant, hate-filled bubble, not even for comfort or coping or whatever. nor any others; there's nothing a different shiny set of rituals and magic chants will do for me, even at death, that could be better than the healthy acceptance of reality. I'm very much at peace with the nature of the universe, even if I'm very intent on going another 30-40 years before it happens.
Re: Religion. Inspired by the fandom VS christianity secret.
(Anonymous) 2025-09-12 03:23 am (UTC)(link)Re: Religion. Inspired by the fandom VS christianity secret.
(Anonymous) 2025-09-12 07:33 am (UTC)(link)You have a flaw in your base assumption: that there is "life" after "death." There is no reason to think there is. Our vast inner monologue, imagination, feelings, concept of self, all of it, is not a "soul," it is factually known to be all part of the brain. Which I think is amazing, that everything we conceive of as self-aware human beings is how our brains - and gut bacteria, and other weird, wonderful processes in our bodies - work. Someday, that brain will shut down. Yours, mine, everyone else's. If we're lucky, it's quietly in bed without being ravaged by dementia, but it might not be. And that's it. I know it's difficult for some people to genuinely conceive of there being a time when your very ability to percieve time, space, self, and senses just won't exist. You won't know you're done because your brain won't be able to know. Sure, it's a bummer to think of missing out on watching eons of history play out, so many mysteries we want to see solved won't be in our lifetimes, so many movies we'll never see, songs we'll never hear, but that's humanity. That's life. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Re: Religion. Inspired by the fandom VS christianity secret.
(Anonymous) 2025-09-12 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)Atheism is a relativelly new development. Humanity always had gods. One can argue that our brain is geared towards religion.
Re: Religion. Inspired by the fandom VS christianity secret.
(Anonymous) 2025-09-12 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)"At the same time there's no reason to think there's no afterlife."
There's no evidence that there is an afterlife. Everything is explained by the brain doing brain things. Until there is evidence, I'm not going to believe it. Thinking that there is an afterlife gives people excuses to ignore things that will help in this life.
"My base assumption is that science doesn't know."
You don't need to assume that. You can ask science and science will say it doesn't know. If it knew, it would stop.
"Atheism is a relativelly new development."
Not really.
"Humanity always had gods. One can argue that our brain is geared towards religion."
Yeah, because thinking that the noise in the bush is an actual being with intentions, either good or bad, meant that you would live more often than someone who assumed it was the wind. 'Cause sometimes it would be a tiger that would eat you. Experiments with pigeons have shown the same propensity to ritual and false causation assumptions that underlie religion. We are (should be) beyond such simplistic heuristics when it comes to making decisions that affect not only our own lives but the lives of everyone around us.
Re: Religion. Inspired by the fandom VS christianity secret.
(Anonymous) 2025-09-12 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)