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echo: holysmoke
to: JOHNJWILSON
from: Ross Sauer
date: 2009-06-21 10:21:44
subject: On death...

"JOHNJWILSON -> ALL"  wrote in
news:10572$HOLYSMOKE{at}JamNNTPd:

 J> Does my church/theology have anything to say about death,
 J>   you are all probably
 J>   asking yourself...:-)


 J> "Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If
 J> we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but
 J> timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the
 J> present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has
 J> no limits." — Wittgenstein, Tractatus

I think religion is more or less a leftover, of when death was easy to come
by.

Nowadays, people can be revived after having "died."

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