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"At the end of our lives we will all die. Some think that's that. A forever end. Others don't. How d'ya suppose we got so far apart on that?"
1. It's choice. When we read a report in a newspaper or listen to it on a radio we are getting information about what is unseen to us from a person who claims to know. We can either accept the report on trust [perhaps based on the reliability track record of the newspaper or radio station] or reject the report because we have better or superior knowledge on that subject.
2. The subject matter of your question, belief or otherwise in existence beyond death, also concern the unseen. Here again, there are many reports [in various religious scriptures] of this unseen. Here too we can either accept one of these reports on trust [perhaps based on the reliability track record of the source, the particular scripture concerned] or reject the report because we have better or superior knowledge on that subject.
3. The parents of the Australian university student in the video below were part of the "Some think that's that. A forever end." They drummed it into their son's head throughout his childhood that once a person dies he is worm food, period, complete end of story, and anyone who suggests otherwise is lying. His is a story of how some people struggle to bridge the gap between two groups who are so far apart. It's a serious subject, of course, but he delivers it with a gsoh
4. Anyway let me end with the ending that you began your question with, a sobering thought on which we are ALL agreed and united no matter all the other things and people that divide us - RIP with the absolute certainty that "At the end of our lives we will all die."
Thank you for very thoughtful and introspective reply CLURT. Of course you are right. We do take many things on faith..not just the promise of an afterlife. Happy Sunday! :)
CLURT 