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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (141330)	1/8/2002 12:56:36 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585945

You had said that you find people who believe in religion and God are happier. I took that one step further and said may be they are happier because their religion encourages them to believe in life after death and so they don't have to fear death. I then said it was a kind of denial...a denial of what seems to be really happening which is that life ends at death. I think denial is when deep down you know X is true, but you don't like X so you say X is false, and even convince yourself of it to a limited extent. Thus a religious belief in an afterlife would not be denial for most believers. It may (or may not) be wrong, but not denial. Similarly when I though buying Jan. 2001 AMD calls was a good investment I was wrong but I was not in denial. I might have been in denial when I thought the investment would recover after it had gone way down. Tim, I think it may begin as denial and then morph into something else. But what is religion.....a framework for how to live well so you go to a good place when you die. Its intricately tied up with good and evil, life and death, heaven and hell. Why else would people seek it out.....it helps guarantee your mortality. Besides, some people don't feel anything deep down. ted