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To: koan who wrote (252926)	6/16/2014 12:33:03 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540882

I'm sure some people find it a comfort when confronting the idea of unbeingness/death. Some people have a really odd and virulent fear of death. That's not something I understand either. I mean I don't want to die, and I'd rather that none of the people I love or like would die, but they do anyway, and I can get over it. After all, if people didn't ever die, we wouldn't be able to fit in any new people. And death is certainly motivational. I'd suggest that people who don't have an exaggerated fear of death may find religion unnecessary, except for the fact that my adoptive mom was super paranoid about death and was an atheist. So who knows? We are what we are. Just like heterosexuals and homosexuals are born that way, I think I was born not believing in anything. My birth mom is just like me, and I didn't meet her until I was 29- so it's unlikely her beliefs influenced me. It's a wiring issue.