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When you miss beliefs you never actually held

My grandmother always said everything happens for a reason and now that she's gone I realize how much I relied on that idea even though I never believed it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The comfort of inherited meaning-making can be felt as loss even by those who rejected its content.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Humanism and secular meaning?”

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