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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 09:50 AM Original message |
Is it really so hard to grasp that life might end at death? |
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Teaser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
1. Speak for yourself mortals |
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prole_for_peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
2. so... pissed... off... right... now... |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
3. That's disturbing... |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
4. I believe there is life after death, but I also accept the possibility |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
11. excuse meeee.... edited to appease |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:31 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. was this supposed to be in response to my post? |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
5. Oh, I know that death as the end is a possibility |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:33 AM Response to Reply #5 |
15. However, you accept the strong possibility that consciousness |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:35 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Well, I believe that everything has some form of consciousness, |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 11:07 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. If it reconstitutes, as matter does, with other pieces of consciousness |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 11:51 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Perhaps if you allow that consciousness does not have to keep its |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 12:03 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. That's why what you believe is called "faith." |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 12:51 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Intimations of Immortality |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 01:11 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. What is an example of a transcendant truth the spiritual realm teaches? |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 01:40 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. It was Wordsworth, by the way. And the reading of his poem is one example |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 02:37 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. By realm of the unseen, of course, you mean realm of the supernatural |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 02:51 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Your doubt is your choice, and your right. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 03:23 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. And now that you're older and wiser you *know* consciousness doesn't |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 04:11 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. I was pretty arrogant in my **knowing** that God didn't exist and that |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-21-06 09:50 AM Response to Reply #35 |
42. It's unusual for an atheist to "know" God doesn't exist. |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 02:40 PM Response to Reply #21 |
29. you're right |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 03:12 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. You're not saying consciousness is physical or material, are you? |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
6. Well life in the physical world is over when the body dies. |
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TallahasseeGrannie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
7. I guess it all depends on your |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:40 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. He must have meant worm *food* and just forgot that was the cliche |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
8. And his point is? If the Tilmans were "Christian" |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
9. thats why all the Fundies support the Death Penalty, to send them to Heaven |
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BillE (67 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-21-06 12:40 AM Response to Reply #9 |
39. Heaven? |
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Democrats_win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
10. Ecclesiastes 9:5 ...the dead don't know anything...." Thus no afterlife. |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 05:22 PM Response to Reply #10 |
36. Jesus said heaven awaits the faithful on the day they die |
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Beetwasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
12. Well, Then I Guess Kauzlarich Won't Mind Being Fragged Now, Will He? |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
14. I think this goes deeper than just him not being able to understand. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 11:10 AM Response to Reply #14 |
22. That's a good part of it. They don't like anyone giving the lie to |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
16. What a fucking crock. |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
19. I know that people who believe in the afterlife will often say of |
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Lowell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
20. He was killed by friendly fire |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
31. That's something that I had wrestled with for a while. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 03:21 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. It might make it easier for them to accept the loss of a child |
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delete_bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-21-06 04:22 AM Response to Reply #31 |
40. Eternity is a very long time. As you say, what does one do |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-21-06 06:13 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. For something special |
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SPKrazy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
37. It Is For Some |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-20-06 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
38. What a load |
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