Quote (Loipisdead @ Jun 25 2023 05:58am)
Death is final, permanent. There is nothing afterwards. Once your brain goes your consciousness and everything that made you "you" goes with it.
It's the equivalent of the feeling you had before you were born
nothing
You wouldn't know anything because you wouldn't exist anymore
Humans made up god, heaven, hell, afterlife, ghosts to make them feel a little better about death being so final. Also because way back in the day humans thought everything they couldn't explain was magic
The bible was written during a weird period in time
i was raised to think like this and i really believed what you say was the truth, once you die thats it. nothing.
believed religion & the after life is a coping mechanism for dealing with the fear of death
then one day in my early 20's i woke up to see a demon standing at the end of my bed
i was physically frozen and couldn't yell for help. there were 5 other people asleep in the same room, all having nightmares and talking/whimpering in their sleep simultaneously
the demon put its hands on my shoulders and held me down. i could see its face come out of the darkness, disgusting, half human half animal.
it even had horns too but they were small curly ram horns
its face was as big as a horses face but it had human features like a nose, chin ect. it moved its face closer and closer to mine until it actually put its face into my face (hard to explain)
but when it did that i could see what it was made from, its whole mass was made from a million tiny sparks of light buzzing around kind of like fire but different.
so at that moment i was experiencing a feeling i can only describe as true terror. not fear for my physical death but fear for my soul.
at that point i knew what i had to do, i had to acknowledge Jesus Christ and ask for his help.
do you know the pride you have to swallow to do that as an atheist? its a hard thing to do. but i did it.
i didn't see Jesus himself but there was a light glow to my left and i saw the demon pull its head back and look and then disappeared in a second.
it was all over i could move again, sprung out of my bed and had to stop myself from yelling at the top of my lungs and wake everyone up.
gathered my thoughts and somehow went back to sleep that night.
i owe Jesus my soul.
as for the after life i still have no idea but humans definitely have a soul and it can be lost