god, neitzche and kurt vonnegut are all dead!
I noticed today reading kurt vonnegut that when people have near-death experiences, they always claim to see a white light, the pearly gates, or even St. Peter. No one ever says, "I almost died last night and I was falling right into that pile of flames. Shit, I’d better shape up." No one ever has a near-death experience and thinks they are going towards hell. Yet they swear up and down that these experiences are true, legitimate, and spiritual. So why is this?
1) Only the people who are bound for heaven are spared death once they come close to it. Those bound for hell are just left by god to die because they’re not worth it.
2) These visions, just like heaven and hell, are imagined because it is human nature to believe what you want to believe.
I can’t remember where I saw it, but I was reading this article on near-death experiences, and I remember one person claiming to have changed his entire lives around after he nearly died and then became engulfed in flames and was attacked by a dozen or so little “demons”. It scared him to be good to people. How true that is, I don’t know, but not everyone sees the pearly gates apparently.
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