I mean, personally, I think a lot of it's religious bullshit, but I guess it's still nicer to think that there's real karma after you die. Plus, who wants to think about their dead loved ones just rotting away in the ground forever? Or worse. I didn't get to bury my family. I don't want their eternity to be just decomposing in their beds with flies all over them.
[ Look, when you come from an extremely traumatic place, it's good to have even a tiny bit of emotional comfort. It doesn't matter if it's true or not, not really; believing that there's nothing after at all means that the people she loved suffered for no reason.
She can give them a reason, even if only in her head. ]
Well, yeah, you can't wear the meat dress. She already did it, and you don't know her, so it would be a shitty costume for you. The point of the costume is to make it an extension of yourself. It's about what you want to be or what you like, or what you think is funny. Stuff like that.
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[ Look, when you come from an extremely traumatic place, it's good to have even a tiny bit of emotional comfort. It doesn't matter if it's true or not, not really; believing that there's nothing after at all means that the people she loved suffered for no reason.
She can give them a reason, even if only in her head. ]
Well, yeah, you can't wear the meat dress. She already did it, and you don't know her, so it would be a shitty costume for you. The point of the costume is to make it an extension of yourself. It's about what you want to be or what you like, or what you think is funny. Stuff like that.