our entire world is full of long cons that help maintain our civilization. it's not that far fetched that something like religion, where the whole basis of it is believing in something without proof would be something that would last a long time. personally not sure where i land on the atheist/agnostic tier. i personally would like there to be gods or some sort of creator that is looking down on us, an afterlife would be cool too, reincarnation or whatever. i feel like we're not lucky enough to live in such kind world as that though. but i don't know, i'd like be wrong about that.
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