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This "space left by religion" shit never made sense to me. Is that a thing other people/normal people/neurotypicals actually experience?
i'm definitely not neurotypical and have had some wild experiences that lead me to ontological inquiry, the insinuation that 'lmao only normies do that not me i'm so much better and above it all' is pretty toxic imo
Have you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future? I showed it to somebody who left religion decades earlier and could see what a gut punch it still was. I think he had basically substituted indefinite space exploration for heaven and finding out that even that's not an option was like losing faith a second time.
Future events more distant than the entirety of human civilization are filed firmly under Not My Problem
I sure as hell don't lol. Can't relate at all.
I'd say not necessarily everyone, but I guess it exists for some people.
Everyone believes something
This feels like you're playing a little semantic trick with the ambiguity of the meaning of belief, conflating ideology and metaphysics.
I think there are lots and lots of people who do just that