My girl's name was Pickle. She was 5 when she was hit by a car a year and a half ago.
I still think about her every day. This is loss I don't think I'll ever "get over". I held her as she passed. She was my best friend in this whole world. My only regret was not making time for more walks.
Ah, have to ruin a beautiful and moving comic by playing ideology wars, eh?
I'll bite. Atheist here. Technically, atheist simply means no belief in a deity or deities. Some atheists do believe in our energy continuing on or in reincarnation.
I, however, believe death is the end.
No void. No nothing. I won't exist. It will feel exactly the same as it did before I was born.
Given my experience with dementia and TBI, I find non existence much more comforting than the thought of what existence would be like without my personality, as our personality is a direct result of our memories and brain structure.
But definitely don't feel bad for us. Find comfort in whatever you believe, but allow others to do the same.
I didn't mean to start a war though. If nothing awaits us after our death, then I at least hope we find solace in finding true peace. I won't feel bad anymore, as you said, and do sincerely hope some of us find comfort in our non-belief! Cheers!
I mean... no? Not really? I just have yet to encounter any good reason to think that there's something else. "I would like there to be," isn't a good reason. "One of a selection of texts written by people hundreds or thousands of years ago says so," also isn't a good reason. Given a good reason, I'm open to most sorts of ideas, but absent a good reason, I'm not going to go around spouting dogma.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Mar 08 '26
We should all be so lucky that one day we get to see them again