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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 10:45 AM Original message |
The idea that when we die we have an eternal existence of peace and contentment, |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
1. whats next? |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 11:00 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Why? Why does anybody spend time even thinking about 'what's next'? I vow to live my life |
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HERVEPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 11:06 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. How can you believe in something you don't believe in??? |
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Goblinmonger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 11:09 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I think that this being it |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 11:18 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Well said. Too often the idea of an afterlife is pushed at people to |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 11:23 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. I don't get why you think it's better for us now to believe in an afterlife. |
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beam me up scottie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 01:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. You're referring to the FSM of course. |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 03:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Personally, I don't see this life as being the only life as a bad thing. |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 09:36 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Exactly |
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frogmarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
5. I agree it's wishful thinking. |
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iamahaingttta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
8. When you're dead, you're dead! |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
9. I've always thought that the ideas, thoughts and beliefs which |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 02:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. I agree. The brain dies and that's it. |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-08 11:00 AM Response to Reply #9 |
20. I agree--excellent point, |
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beam me up scottie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
10. I suppose it would be nice to imagine my mom sitting high up on a cloud watching over me. |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 02:17 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. It is nice to see you back, BMUS! |
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beam me up scottie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 02:27 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Thanks! |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-11-08 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
12. I apply the same reasoning to the concept of Karma. |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
18. I Don't Think There's Anything Wrong With This Wishful Thinking, Really |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-08 11:03 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. But seems to me it usually doesn't. Usually, IMO, belief in an afterlife |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
19. I'm fine with wishful thinking. |
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