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Originally Posted by photon
For those who've switched, was there a point where you really internalized the belief that there was no afterlife waiting for you?
For me there seemed to be a very substantial lag between superficial brain belief "hey there's no heaven" to "holy crap there'll be a point where I'm not going to be existing" deep down belief. I'd been conditioned to believe in an afterlife for so long I think it took a decade to really REALLY believe there probably isn't.
Or maybe it's just because I'm older and everyone goes through that transition?
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No, I'm still struggling with this (and I don't think you are much/any older than I am). I have a difficult tie with my own mortality, and especially with the realization that not only will I pass from existence, but that everything that I know and remember will be gone. It's so difficult to fathom the disappearance of memory.
I am still (perhaps foolishly) hoping that there is something else out there, because I selfishly want my life to go on.