i too assumed it was more like 50%. thinking about it though, there's wayyy too many religious americans online and way too much religious stuff in even things like cartoons for it to be half and half. and there might be a lot of people who keep their religion more hidden...
since a while back i've been thinking about reincarnation, i watched a few videos and read a few stories where little kids had strong memories of past lives and they tried to do research to see if their past families etc. really did exist. there was also stuff like, a woman suddenly woke up speaking some archaic dialect that she shouldn't have heard/had contact with in real life, and then people whose lives flashed before their eyes - "all" of their lives, like all memories. and then people who suddenly strongly remember stuff from 60 years ago. even if most of that stuff is just lies, we still don't know how memories and the entire brain really work for example.
drugs can make you hallucinate - not only in sight and sound but in touch. you can even hallucinate other people existing (as my great-grandpa did in the hospital one time). what if the entire world is our hallucination? and when you sleep - what are dreams? what if (like that fiction book i plan on writing) dreams are, say, parallel worlds, or fragments of the "real world"?
my wife told me one time, that we humans know so little about the world, we can't possibly make any guess as to life and death. we probably know less than 1% about the world and the universe even with all we know now. we laugh at how, say, so many years ago they didn't know about germs, but in 20 or 50 or 500 years we're going to find this modern time just as primitive.
but, life DOES reuse everything in a way. when it rains, it goes into the ground and then eventually turns into clouds again. if a body rots, it gets reused into the soil. baby animals are born from other baby animals, reusing their genes and whatnot. all sorts of animals have consciousness and can learn stuff and (i'm sure) think thoughts. what happens to that kind of stuff in the "reuse" cycle is ours to guess...
but then again, i guess i did read a lot of stuff like the Golden Compass as a kid, where when you die you turn into golden powder that powers everything in the world lol. anyway if things like ghosts and reincarnation and gods exist, i doubt they're in any way that we've already guessed.
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since a while back i've been thinking about reincarnation, i watched a few videos and read a few stories where little kids had strong memories of past lives and they tried to do research to see if their past families etc. really did exist. there was also stuff like, a woman suddenly woke up speaking some archaic dialect that she shouldn't have heard/had contact with in real life, and then people whose lives flashed before their eyes - "all" of their lives, like all memories. and then people who suddenly strongly remember stuff from 60 years ago. even if most of that stuff is just lies, we still don't know how memories and the entire brain really work for example.
drugs can make you hallucinate - not only in sight and sound but in touch. you can even hallucinate other people existing (as my great-grandpa did in the hospital one time). what if the entire world is our hallucination? and when you sleep - what are dreams? what if (like that fiction book i plan on writing) dreams are, say, parallel worlds, or fragments of the "real world"?
my wife told me one time, that we humans know so little about the world, we can't possibly make any guess as to life and death. we probably know less than 1% about the world and the universe even with all we know now. we laugh at how, say, so many years ago they didn't know about germs, but in 20 or 50 or 500 years we're going to find this modern time just as primitive.
but, life DOES reuse everything in a way. when it rains, it goes into the ground and then eventually turns into clouds again. if a body rots, it gets reused into the soil. baby animals are born from other baby animals, reusing their genes and whatnot. all sorts of animals have consciousness and can learn stuff and (i'm sure) think thoughts. what happens to that kind of stuff in the "reuse" cycle is ours to guess...
but then again, i guess i did read a lot of stuff like the Golden Compass as a kid, where when you die you turn into golden powder that powers everything in the world lol. anyway if things like ghosts and reincarnation and gods exist, i doubt they're in any way that we've already guessed.