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Quote by: gela  Believing that we die and our soul doesnt exist depresses me, Believing that if I do some things wrong I will be sent to hell- and believing that my unreligious family will be sent to hell also depresses me. So I choose to believe that every soul has a chance for redemption. |
Here is the core of every religion:hope (Nietzche). But on my side I'm existentialism. I think I'm flesh and bones, I've got free will, I'm just an animal doing caffeine. Is it depressive? No, it is optimistic just like Sartre explains in "Existentialism is a humanism". And above all, it's real. I don't believe in it because it sounds conforting to me, nor because I want to, but because it makes sense.
But buddhism is interesting because it can be interpreted both as a religion or a philosophy. But in any way it doesn't fit with me.