emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
Ok this is telling.Losing someone close is a sonofabitch.
Lost my Father when I was 16,you feel robbed of showing him that he raised you well.
I just hope there is a heaven and he see's how good a father he was.
That's what my kids are dealing with. They are just about grown, but he didn't see them as full adults. I find myself hoping that there's some kind of afterlife, too. He wasn't a believer.
If you read Philosophy especially Catholic Philosophy it tells you that for all sorts of logical reasons it is impossible to conceive that there is no God.
And if there is a God then He/She/They would have prepared an afterlife for us for the same logical reasons. The logical constructions are complex but if you read enough philosophy it makes sense.
You can fast forward and google San Tomas Aquinas and read his "5 proofs of God". This is official Catholic doctrine as well as being pure Philosophy.
The next step is Religion. People who have suffered a first loss to death often use that experience to become involved in a church group somewhere. My personal recommendation is the Catholics of course. But the Protestant Lutherans or Anglican are good too because they are very similar to the Catholics -- there is very little difference other than their rebellion against Rome in the 1500's.
If you try to do this without religion then you are weaker.
Since I am confident there is a God, and confident there is an afterlife, and confident in the Catholic, Lutheran, and Anglican Churches then strongly recommend you to one of them now.
Hi yiostheoy I have found people call God by different things.
Some people do not see life or the universe and its laws as "personal'
but see it in secular nontheistic terms. Like Buddhists may see truth or wisdom in life.
but not attach that to a personified figure or relationship. Does that make sense?