XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism
From: brianf88@bigpond.net.au
"Michael Gray" wrote in message
news:b0lbo3ljk0jv6oaosmt4itkfho76c42u0q@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:50:31 GMT, "brian fletcher"
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Uncle Vic" wrote in message
>>news:Xns9A20D46C9D963vicman@207.115.33.102...
>>> One fine day in alt.atheism, "Mark Earnest"
>>> bloodied
>>> us up with this:
>>>
>>>> We are talking living together forever here.
>>>
>>> I'll agree only if "forever" spans the time our species has and will
>>> exist,
>>> and is reached through passing on our DNA to future generations. One
>>> person does not live forever.
>>>
>>>> With much emphasis on "together..."
>>>
>>> Right, as in "we're all in this together".
>>>
>>>> How would it be conceivably possible to survive forever and ever...
>>>> ...considering all the creating it would require...
>>>> ...without an infinite and good Creator somehow running the entire
>>>> show?
>>>
>>> Sorry, your question cannot be answered. You've used up your share of
>>> dots.
>>>
>>>> Let alone trying to explain how to live with our enemies, forever.
>>>
>>> Let's just worry about doing that during our normal lifetimes.
>>>
>>
>>Atheism is to do with ones perception/belief regarding God.
>>
>>Life and all its nuances and manifestations, including the 'ongoing
>>nature'
>>(immortality) of an individual has been hijacked by the religionists over
>>the years, but has nothing whatever to do with such reality.Nor has
>>atheism.
>
> Save for having one less fiction in the road to that understanding.
All beliefs and 'others' views, are, by definition, fiction.
Even the comments I am making, are also fiction to another, until an
individual realizes as opposed to believes, the substance of those points of
view.
BOfL
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