(2019-01-09, 12:07 PM)Brian Wrote: I wasn't referring to the poem but to the "some people" that you mentioned. A poem is not reality.
I do think some people see the Rainbow Bridge poem as suggestive of an afterlife they might want to believe in. So it may not work exactly like the afterlife of the poem which could be read as symbolic.
Re: obvious fictions people believe in, I'd note the compatiblism idea floated by some skeptics on how to reconcile their faith in materialism with their desire to preserve humanist ideals.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
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