Originally posted by HSx9
And Id rather believe that when I die I go to a better place rather than darkness for eternity.
How would you like to live in a place for eternity? Living anywhere, even if it is heaven, for ETERNITY, never dying, would be hell itself.
I believe that when one dies, it is like before one was born. There was no working brain/organs before birth and no brain/working organs after death. Just darkness. But your not thinking in that darkness. Its like before you were born, just nothing. its peaceful once you accept it.
The reason you want a better place is Darwin's theory at work. The brain has developed a phycology that it will survive, and will do ANYTHING to accomplish that goal: to survive. That survival gene also carries onto the afterlife. That it will survive, under all circumstances. If your brain didnt have that mindset, you would do stupid shit and die before you reproduce and pass your gene on. No gene passed on=gene thrown out. Those who had the mindset to survive and carry on reproduced, and so that gene carried on.