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""Hard to think you can't exist anymore""
What is "Can't exist"?
""I'd be wasting my time praying to a made-up concept. I KNOW that no religious entity is going to come down and save me. Wonder how many of those no-longer athiests in fox-holes were suddenly saved by Jesus Christ? Or how many devout Christians were saved from that grenade that landed in their fox-hole? None.... ""
You are quite right! It is a man made concept. But think about it, much easier to say you don't believe in god and ranting it off on the internet. Would you still say the same when you are in deathbed or in a war. Remember the term was coined by military commander who probably saw a lot of these atheists, praying to god like rats when death was near.
I come from a "atheist" family on my mom side, and my uncle was just like you "funamental atheist" and then he got cancer, had 8 months to live. Imagine what a "fundamentalist atheist" did for remaining 8 months of life. Yes! prayed. No, no christ or buddha came to save him and he knew nobody would come in, but still what he did. Prayed and started phenomenally believing in god.
No god or mortal can save you, because its nature - there has to be end otherwise we are talking about eternal physical life.
What is life: just cuz you got eyes to see the world and awareness and some other physical movements, it is life.
Regarding higher form: here is my 1 cent: We need gut bacteria in our gut to survive (digest food). They live out specific life, doing specifc things, which in turn ensure human beings life. The bacteira can't deviate from their specific role based life, they don't have any free will. Does a individual bacteria in my gut knows that I exist as well and I am live? NO, I don't think so.
Likewise I say human beings maybe living these lives for a specific purpose of higher form (earth, universe?) Just because we can't see the broader picture dosen't mean we are just living a life that came by accident for no purpose.
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