[opendtv] Re: Global warming - was A Station Group with a Future
- From: "Meehan, John" <JMeehan@xxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:16:53 -0500
Perhaps it's time to bifurcate this thread into "...with a Future", and
"...without a Future" versions, eh?
:-)
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Subject: [opendtv] Re: Global warming - was A Station Group with a
Future
On Feb 12, 2007, at Monday, February 12, 20073:08 PM, Mark Aitken wrote:
> Bob, tell us, what does it feel like to have no future?
I can't answer for Bob, but from my own no-belief-in-an-afterlife
point of view I can tell you it feels just fine. It doesn't frighten
me. In conversations with my friends who believe in heaven, I've come
to understand that they don't seem to be able to comprehend that I
believe that nothing happens when you die. Nothing. They seem to
equate this with being locked in a dark closet for eternity, of
floating around in an empty void of space for eternity. In other
words, still conscious, still "alive" but in an empty, scary place.
And that's not what I think happens. I think it all just ends. Poof.
Done. Nothing more. True nothingness is a very abstract concept, and
it doesn't surprise me that people have a hard time with it. But
there's really nothing scary about it, at least to me. To the
contrary, the belief that this is it, that this is the only life I
will ever have, makes every moment in this world all the more
precious. I won't see my parents or family or friends in another
world, so I'd better make the most of my time with them here.
But hey, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
And man, we have gone just as far off topic as we could possibly get.
I really didn't want to get sucked in to this one. :-)
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