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I was sitting on the can earlier when I started to replay a conversation I had with my older brother about what happens to you when you die. He believes that you join up with your deceased relatives in heaven… as many god beleivers do. He’s told me this before and I have replied with my usual “uh huh” because, after all, I think everybody is entitled to their opinions/beliefs/whatever. I never challenged him before. Besides, I’ve had my share of debates with people on this and other hot subjects and have learned over the years that … it just doesnt’ matter.

Well, for some reason this time I volunteered that I don’t necessarily share his thoughts. I think he may have asked if I agreed or something… don’t remember.

He just couldn’t believe that I felt this way. He asked “so what do you think happens to you when you die?” I told him the truth. “I believe you just cease to exist and go back into the same nothingness there was before you were born and became self aware”. Oh boy he passed judgement on me real quick. “How can you think that way?! That’s so sad! ..so sad!…”, he said. I told him I didn’t think it was sad and that it doesn’t mean I think his beleifs are wrong either.

I wasn’t challenging him, hell I even said nobody knows the truth and I could be wrong.. but I couldn’t very well come back from the dead to tell the rest of the living world about it.