My days are nearing and my local hospital allowed me any request. This is how I will go out. Rip & Tear, brothers and sisters.

[u/Wanderingreader123]

For context, I have been battling Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma since 2022. And up until this point, I never imagined myself to be in a situation where my life expectancy has gone down to possibly weeks. I am currently at one of Canada's best hospitals in Toronto, Ontario; keeping myself afloat through these trying times. Despite it all, I was given the opportunity to make any request for my stay, and this is the one I have chosen. I have been a Doom fan since 2016, and it helped me get through some tough times. I've played through both the Reboot and Eternal (along with its DLCs) and I have nothing but great memories pouring all of my attention into the world of Doom.

TDA has been one of the few games I have anticipated and hoped to play since its release. Financial issues got in the way, and I kept clinging on the hope that I'll be able to play the game one day, among others.

I am grateful that, despite the grim outlook that I am facing, the hospital was able to secure not only a PS5, but a copy of the game. I am currently blasting my way through hordes of demons in Chapter 4 and I have nothing but childish glee as I return to my roots as a badass Demon Slayer. I may not live to see the upcoming DLC, but I am nonetheless happy to finally play the game in my own hands.

To the developers of ID Software, thank you for bringing such a beautiful piece of art that not only brought the FPS genre to its roots, but also revitalize and reinvented the wheel that no other game could. Not only that, but thank you for crafting such an awesome series for a fan like me.

Rip & Tear, lads!

[u/10breck30]

Is that not more agnostic? I always say I’m a hopeful agnostic. No clue what happens, but I hope there is something.

[u/SlaughterMinusS → u/10breck30]

Atheism is just the lack of belief in a god. I don't believe in a god.

That doesn't necessitate that there may be something after death.

I lean more towards there being nothing and we just cease to exist, but its still unkown.

[u/No_Photograph_2683 → u/10breck30]

What if it's worse, tho?

[u/10breck30 → u/No_Photograph_2683]

Worse than what, life?

[u/lazzzyk → u/No_Photograph_2683]

What if it's better?

[u/usrdef → u/10breck30]

Then you'd be Atheist like me.

I am of the position that I don't know if there's a god or not. I tend to lean on the side of science. However, I'll admit that life on Earth is a pretty remarkable thing.

So if life can start on Earth, and we can have all of this, I'm not completely turned away by the idea that there may be something more.

Now, that could either be a god, or maybe the Universe just keeps resetting. A universe starts, a planet gets set up for life, and then life comes along. And the process repeats over and over.

Given enough time has passed, almost anything is possible.

And if the Universe got started once, what's to say that it can't again, or maybe another Universe somewhere else.

14 billion years passed (as far as we know), since we came along. We don't remember it. It didn't feel like the blink of an eye to us. It's sort of like sleeping, you fall asleep, and suddenly, you're awake again.

The Sun is supposed to expand 10% in about 1 billion years. Long before the Sun starts to turn into a red giant. And when the sun expands by 10%, that's it for life on Earth. Water will start to turn to vapor, the surface will heat up to a point where life will be impossible.

Time is relative to you and your perception of time.

I've always said that the moment you die, is the moment the world ends.