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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tell them the truth. That life is precious, that we're here for relatively little time, and that we need to make the best of the time we have. When someone dies, they live on in our memories, but I don't believe in any sort of afterlife.

I also tell them that that's what I believe -- that they need to grapple with these questions and decide what they believe. We have books about different religions, and they are free to explore their own beliefs. I'm not here to force my beliefs on them.[/quote]

This sounds like wise counsel.

Whether we are religious or not religious, it is important to allow children space to choose their own path. 
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Op here. I like this too, and will definitely encourage my children to explore their own beliefs as they get older. [/quote]

Think about this for a minute: Would you encourage your children "to explore their own beliefs" about science, if they believed the sky was green instead of blue?  The only reason people treat religion differently is because there are lots of choices among a bunch of untrue, made-up stuff.  e.g., Are you Christian? which denomination?  Jewish? Hindu?  All the  beliefs are  different and they are all made up.[/quote]

what a silly argument...science doesn't say the sky is blue.  Science says the sky is "x" wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum, what you see is whatever word you call it.  Words are made up products of our experiences to explain whatever reality we have, and has nothing to do with the reality someone else experiences which is all made up in your mind and your way of experiencing it.  You haven't experienced god, or an existential crisis or whatever you want to call it yet.  If you haven't had your existential crisis yet it is probably because you are not educated enough to realize we live in a matrix like Musk says.

Expressions like nothing new under the sun are true because humans keep inventing reality to suit their needs.  People are either goddists or foodists.  A foodist is someone who realizes that the only truth we know for certain is that we have to eat to live.  A goddist is someone who believes there is more to reality than that.[/quote]

I not a goddist and I guess I'm not a foodist, either, because I believe other truths as well, e.g., that we need air to breathe [/quote]
that's still foodist[/quote]

it's not only foodist.  It's airest  too.  Please stop trying to prove other people wrong.  [/quote]

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