anonym comments on Great post on Reddit about accepting atheism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: anonym 31 August 2009 05:28:38AM 5 points [-]

It feels like a loss because it is a loss. Beliefs are things, and they can be held or lost -- just as they can comfort and give meaning -- independently of whether they are or ever were true.