XPost: alt.books.stephen-king, alt.evil   
   From: laudenum_calla@hotmail.com   
      
   "BTR1701"  wrote in message   
   news:BTR1702-12893C.17015922082004@news.west.earthlink.net...   
   > In article <73640140.0408211239.1fde8388@posting.google.com>,   
   > mayaegg@hotmail.com (Harlan Osier) wrote:   
   >   
   > > Stephen King is EVIL, he's the work of the devil, made to collect your   
   > > souls and to turn you into brainless slaves of hell.   
   > >   
   > > If you like Stephen King, you will lose your soul to be damned   
   > > for eternal torment in hell.   
   >   
   > Prove that a soul even exists (or this devil person, for that matter)   
   > and I'll consider taking you seriously.   
      
   My son and I were having this precise discussion last night. We had just   
   watched a re-run of the Simpsons' Episode where Bart sells his soul to   
   Millhouse.   
      
   My son wanted to know what a soul is, why do we have it, and, most   
   importantly, where does it go when we die.   
      
   Great topics for a lovely, prolonged conversation, ranging from standard   
   religious dogma, to agnostic, to buddist, sikkist, jewish, almost all the   
   religions I could think of (including The Family, the Orange people, David   
   Koresh, Kali... lOOOONG list) upshot - IF the soul exists, then it's that   
   small electrical discharge actually measured by scientists when a person   
   dies.   
      
   Of course, we could just quote from Douglas Adams and the non-existence of   
   God, the babelfish and ummm that lovely phrase "QED and God disappeared in a   
   puff of logic".   
      
   *sweet smile*   
      
   Tamara   
      
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