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In reply to the discussion: Something nice, I think, but a little eerie happened [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)Who has not experienced things that are beyond the rigid explanations of established strict scientific orthodoxy?
Of course, it may very well be that thoughts of afterlife are only the wishful thoughts of comforting fairy tales. But then again - strange things do happen. The Skeptic may very well say that it is so desirable to believe in an afterlife - not only for our sake -but for the sake of all those we love - that we cannot help but make up excuses to justify this belief. But still just as the fact that such a thought is so desirable does not make it true - it does not make it untrue either. Truth is not necessarily sad anymore than truth is necessarily happy. The very notion of existence and of time and of space is so mind blowing -a true free thinker must conclude that such things are within the realm of reasonable possibility. What we may call for lack of better words - spiritual may actually be no more spiritual than electricity. But no more understood in today's world than electricity was understood a couple centuries ago.