I was inspired to write this one by a previous post. I've seen lots of plants and animals die, and souls don't rise out of them and drift up into the sky to some cloudy paradise. Seriously, next time a fly gets into your room, swat it and watch as closely as you can, see what you find. "But souls are invisible!" Okay, then there are actually also a bunch of big pink half-elephant half-panda gods who work to keep the evil demon Cthulhu at bay - and you can't tell me I'm wrong, because they're invisible too. The only reason people are inclined to believe that souls can be invisible yet big pink panda-elephant gods cannot is because they're been told about souls over and over and over again throughout their life to the point that they are ready to accept the existence of something they have only heard about from others (a.k.a. rumors.) All you have to do is hear something over and over again, and eventually it will become truth in the mind of the (average) listener. This method is especially effective when you start the brainwashing process at a young age. When a living thing dies, the elements it's composed of degrade back into the environment to fuel new life. That is the way mother nature operates. Thus, I am of the belief that a life lived entirely in expectation of an afterlife is a huge gamble. The current life should be lived to the fullest because that is the only life one can be certain there will be. The idea that a person who leads one type of life will be rewarded (and go to heaven) while another person who leads a different type of life will be punished (go to hell) after death is preposterous - a weapon of fear concocted to control the masses. When either of them die, they die. All that comes next is daisies.
Ryan Wilson
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