The Importance of Desire

I tend to find things are more true when I see them emerge independently of each other globally. People believe in desire for something after death, but why do you think we're programmed to want that? That sounds like determinism to me. The fact that we have a desire for transcendence would be very strange in a world where there's no such thing as transcendence. And that's where I have a violent disagreement with my atheist friends and there are many of those. They see that desire and they put it down to some sort of Freudian thing. You just desire it. It actually does exist and is attainable just like food. But you know that some people can be deprived of