Emy wrote:
Paraphrase: Don't fret about the nature of life after death, so enough you will know. In the meantime, enjoy life during life.
I can't help but think about what might happen to me after I die, and sometimes I get nervous and I start to depress myself. Which I guess is a good reason not to think about it.
The following paragraph is spawned from a recent email I had with a Catholic friend of mine, who's trying to explain her religion to me, this is what I gathered from what she said:
God may exist, and if he does, as they say, care for us all, he has a funny way of showing it. If he loves us, why is there pain and tragedt? Is it so we don't get spoiled? So we know our place? God supposedly can see everything, which means he has the power to prevent something really bad from happening... if it were in his will. There are things that happen, horrible things, that are not in his will to stop from happening, and perhaps it's because overall and in the end, the result will come out more positive than if he had stopped it or interfered in the first place.
Right.
It makes some sense, but since I have a hard time believing any kind of religions, believing anything about God and his/its existance, I can't agree with it. I have a really hard time understanding faith; how people can have it, believe in it, and the things they will do for it. I can't understand because I lost what little faith I might have had in elementary school, when my dire prayers went unanswered and I became bitter and resentful. I have no faith, and though I am curious, and though I may be able to see some light in it all, I still can't find the proof.
And anyway, if it was possible to prove God's existence, then everyone would believe, and I guess it doesn't work that way. It's not that you need proof, but you need a reason to have that kind of faith.
Or... I don't know... I can't understand it all, so I don't know if what I've typed here makes any sense or any difference in this 'debate'. But that's part of what's on my mind.