Start with friendly conversation, and try to find common interests. Then, if there is some event that would interest you both, ask the petroglyph to join you.
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Then maybe reincarnation will be best suited to you, re-live lives until you realize that there is a God, and a heaven and just because people believe in heaven it doesn't make them nasty people, the opposite actually.
Stephen Fry doesn't believe in God, has possibly the best vocabulary I have witnessed and is called the most intelligent man on earth by many, even though all he has got is words. Yeah, let's all make Fry a god for atheists...
Not a God, but he seems a good gentle humorous man. Very clever, but not the most intelligent man on the planet I think. He has problems with depression. Soon to be married to another man I believe, so he'll have to burn a very long time before he gets to heaven.
Dust is best suited to me. I wouldn't say that belief in heaven makes people nasty. I'd say that nasty people tend to believe in heaven.
I have 100% faith that you won't be dust, in my opinion based on religious study and subjective experiences, this life is just the beginning of an eternal existence. I don't get this? I believe in heaven, yeah I might go of on a tangent now and then, but I'm not nasty, in fact I don't think most theists are nasty. It's pretty difficult discussing from my standpoint and getting my fair share of abuse, but I still carry on.
100% faith is worth about the same as 100% fairy dust. I wouldn't say that "most" theists are nasty. I just find it odd that any of them are. How can they believe in a God, particularly a judgmental God, and not do unto others as they would have others do unto them? Theists also tend to have a martyr complex.
Hope is mainly useful when it inspires you to do something useful - e.g. feeding the hungry. Hope for a better world here, not in an imagined "afterlife".
Good point. I would still like the afterlife to exist though. At some point in your life there start to be more people that you care for who are dead than alive.