@kellyjay saidYou being just about as trite as you possibly can be ~ albeit not in the same league as Romans1009/PB1022's efforts ~ about the meaning and intent of the personal anecdote revealed in the OP may be a "normal conversation" to you, but to me, you sounded like you were pouting about things on other threads.
Okay, remind me that just attempting to have a normal conversation with will always be judged.
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You being just about as trite as you possibly can be ~ albeit not in the same league as Romans1009/PB1022's efforts ~ about the meaning and intent of the personal anecdote revealed in the OP may be a "normal conversation" to you, but to me, you sounded like you were pouting about things on other threads.
@pb1022 saidThe fact you wouldn't have had the same feeling of jeopardy as I did, does not mean that my revelation about the feeling of jeopardy I experienced is "false" in any way.
Because in the one instance the person dying has to come to terms with personally experiencing an afterlife he is not 100 percent sure he understands, and, in the other instance he doesn’t.
This has nothing to do with levels of sadness or grief.
-Removed-Not at all what I’m saying.
I’m saying the effect on someone who knows he is about to die is different than the effect on someone of watching a close relative die.
In the former, the person is about to experience - and knows he is about to experience - an afterlife he is not 100 percent sure he understands, and in the latter, he’s not.
This has nothing to do with sadness or grief or value or anything you’re claiming.
I’m saying the effects on someone about to die are different than the effects on watching a close relative die. I’m not making a judgment about the effects; just noting they are different.
And I felt the need to do that because the OP compared his experience of watching a close relative die to an atheist in a foxhole and that (imo) is an obvious false comparison.