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Religion is invented by the inability to accept death

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Death to me is the discontinuation if consciousness. Just like when you are in a dreamless sleep, there is zero awareness of self and of the surrounding. It is tremendously difficult, given our limited abilities of comprehension to understand what death would feel like, given that upon death, one would not even be concious.

I think that most religion came about much the same way as myths and legends; from our need to find an explaination which we cannot understand.

Many religion contains account of life after death, such as existence of spirits, ghosts, heaven and hell.

All these make up the bulk of most religion, and are “entities” that cannot be scientifically proven to be true. They provide convenient explainations to death which we are otherwise unable to comprehend.

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Father of Dead NSF PTE Foo say got 3 day MC including Tuesday! Not 2 days MC until Monday as Straits Times reported!!!

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Note that the below is purely speculative. We have to wait until the investigation result is out to know the full picture.

An excerpt from Straits Times detailing that PTE Foo have got 2 days of MC.

HOURS after Private Joe Foo Wei Rong died, Defence Ministry (Mindef) investigators discovered a medical certificate (MC) inside his personal locker in his bunk.
The 20-year-old national serviceman had collapsed during training on the morning of Sept 30.

The MC said the 20-year-old had ’sprains and strains of knee and leg’ and should rest on Sunday and Monday, Sept 29. He was also supposed to receive light duties for the next four days, Sept 30 to Oct 3.

However, on the first day of Pte Foo’s ‘light duties’ on Sept 30, he joined platoon mates in their morning basic exercise routine, which included push-ups, sit-ups and a session at the chin-up bar.

However, in a separate news article on Channel NewsAsia,

SINGAPORE: The father of 20—year—old Private Joe Foo Wei Rong who died at Lim Chu Kang Camp on Tuesday morning said his son was given three days of medical leave by the Singapore General Hospital on Sunday for a hamstring strain.

Relatives and friends learnt of this as they paid their last respects to the full—time National Serviceman at the Ubi Teochew Parlour on Wednesday afternoon.

Private Foo collapsed while doing chin—ups at Lim Chu Kang camp. The Ministry of Defence said he was brought to hospital where he died shortly after.

Mindef said it is in close contact with the family and will thoroughly investigate their concerns.

Private Foo will be cremated at Mandai Crematorium on Thursday morning.

Many remember him as an athletic young man who liked to play basketball.

Clifton Seah, the cousin of Private Foo, said: “I’m very shocked. He was a fine young man. My brother was on the phone with him barely 12 hours before he died. It’s a great loss.” — CNA/vm

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