"The only absolute truth is Death"

Sounds like kind of a drag to start this little comedy bit, perhaps, but when you think about it with "higher parts" of centers, or circuits, how can you argue except by introducing unverified theories and speculations based upon stories told to you by other people, either in person, or from some book or website.

All these unsubstantiated  theories and such - since they are not even based upon hard or even strictly soft science - quickly fall apart under even casual scrutiny by most everyone but the gullibles (who live EVERYWHERE! including between those ears and behind them eyes.) "Oh, what a flimsy tapestry we weave when first we practice to deceive ourselves." The practice is called "believing" (as distinct from the other thing - verifying), but amounts to jumping the shark of one's own Active Investigations (a "something" that once had Great Promise, but now after so many missed opportunities, has devolved into a weakness, a shriveled thing.)

Hey, if someone tells you that when you die you will go to a "heaven" and live eternally with those you love, and the lions will lie down with the lambs, etc., why even bother to D.W.A.I (Do The Work of Active Investigation)? And so, little by little, year after year, a Process that can protect one from the Big Bad ol' Fox Pass (B.B.F.P.), becomes the agent of one's own demise (the faux pas, or fuck up): Premature Death by Life's Hand (P.D.L.H.) This devolution is tantamount to "short-circuiting oneself" while alive, with a Big ol' Shit-eatin' Blissed-out Grin (B.S.B.G.)

NO, Virginia, everything is not going to work out A-ok, even if you believe it is.

The body is finite and destined for a long dirt-nap in the near future - maybe tomorrow - and beyond that absolute truth, there can be nothing else, except so-called religious and/or spiritual and/or mystical, theoretical and metaphorical thoughts, feelings and sensations (perceived by the body, made of DNA provided by your parents, and theirs before them, all the way back to a theoretical "adam") that must be "interpreted" by a brain (also, part of the body, made of DNA), in that minimally conscious part of the fore-brain that is not particularly capable of doing that - at this stage of human evolution - any more than your pet dog is capable of perceiving "Doggy Heaven" and enlightening his brothers all about it, also being incapable of doing that. "Woof woof, w-w-w-Woof!"

Though this existentialist viewpoint has been around for a long time, that does not negate its validity as something to at least "consider", and "ponder", and "inquire deeply", and to avoid dealing with these obvious, though perhaps "difficult" particulars by calming oneself with comforting stories does no one any good, except perhaps calming oneself down with easy ideas that are, mostly bullshit, requiring NO EFFORT AT ALL. Is that, in your own mind, an example of "any good?"