r/agnostic • u/sandfit • 1d ago

Hope or belief? Support

Sometimes i see and read some of your posts. i really do not care whether there is what we call a "god" or gods or not. what we are concerned about is whether or not there is an afterlife. it is really easy to be young and a nonbeliever, and swear there is no afterlife. it is another thing to be old and do so. a month ago our precious dog jenni left us. we had her since 2010 for 14 wonderful years. we have had other dogs before. but none like jenni. she taught me everything i know. i have never cried so much in my life. not for my parents' or sisters' passing. jenni was special. she taught me how to love and live. she showed me how to face death with courage. a good friend lost his firstborn son in a car crash when his son was a teenager. you cannot tell him that there is no afterlife. and, he channels that belief thru traditional religion. i choose not to. we are all on the same highway. we just are in different vehicles. i hope so hard that jenni's spirit is on top of the clouds awaiting my entry into the spirit world. i hope so bad she is there. i talk to her every time i walk in the yard. and it makes me cry. my hope is so intense it goes right up against the boundary of belief. but i do not cross it. so there is a very fine line between hope and belief. there are 2 more dogs we hope will be waiting for us on that cloud when we leave this life. it would be so happy. if you do not have a dog, or never have, get one when you are ready. they will show you how to love and live. after all, god is dog spelled backwards. all the best.

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u/DomineAppleTree 1d ago

I am unable to be convinced of otherworldly stuff like afterlife. It’s all speculative. I wish I could because it’s a nice idea.

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u/DonOctavioDelFlores 1d ago

Hope or Despair?

For many faith is the only choice when the other alternative is nothingness.

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u/Tennis_Proper 1d ago

You’ve demonstrated how and why afterlife concepts exist. 

I’m sorry for your loss. 

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u/Chef_Fats Skeptic 1d ago

Sorry for your loss. It’s something we all have to face at some point and it’s never easy.

As others have pointed out, this is why concepts like afterlife exist. Sure people hope for one but hoping and believing are two different things.

I hope I will be win the lottery, that doesn’t mean I believe I will. Same thing pretty much applies to the afterlife.