Profiling the atheist

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.

I wasn't referring to the poem but to the "some people" that you mentioned.  A poem is not reality.

“Some people” are friends and family. I know their motivations because they told me. The sentiments expressed in the poem are supposed to be real, even though someone made them up.

Linda

Perhaps it is zero but people don't always have (or give) an accurate reading of their own dispositions. We do have some limited knowledge of some feeling a great unease regarding the possibility Psi or anything else supernatural would be real.

Yes, “unease” I think is a good description of how some people feel about the possibility of psi. I wonder if some people could be envious of certainty (which would fit with the study Ninshub mentioned).

Linda