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I have no questions. I just needed to get this out of my head and into a medium where folks would kick it around. Blasphemy is, so far as I am concerned, a null program, a product of organized religion, which I consider and oxymoron.
As for Pascals wager, well, there's belief and then there's belief. One is superficial and amounts to merely professing a belief, and the other is internalized. You can pass from one to the other in either direction. In the second way of looking at religion, the devotional way, that second form of belief is critical. I'm not really getting into that here though. Unfortunately, of the two methods of approaching this, I would say that the Devotional method is the one that is most likely to function in providing a gentle exit from life.
The mystical/pantheist/solopsistic thing I am exploring here would be a more difficult path to a peaceful death. It would require fully integrating the sense of all humanity as one into one's being long before dying so as to have it automatically ingrained at the end.
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