Salutatio Frank!
12-Jan-98, Frank Masingill wrote to Richard Meic
          Subject: Back to Apes
 RM>> Many people find it hard to face simple non-existence after
 RM>> death. They must have something to turn to and comfort
 RM>> themselves.  You won't get much debate out of me with this,
 RM>> because this is basically all I have to say on the matter. ;)
 FM> Well, (grin) I really am not looking so much for debate, Richard,
 FM> as for information.  My questions are always genuine.  Your answer
 FM> raised a second question which is how do you KNOW what happens to
 FM> a personality after death. I've read, and, indeed, have in my
 FM> library, John H. Hick, _Death & Eternal Life_, 1976, a
 FM> dispassionate survey of the subject in religious beliefs around
 FM> the globe, and he does not indicate that he KNOWS.  He does
 FM> conclude that of all of the varieties of beliefs the most rational
 FM> appears to be some kind of transition to life in some other part
 FM> of the universe.  One has to note carefully, however, that he's
 FM> only talking about rationality, NOT an assumption of truth.
Oh my dear friend, you will have to show me where I stated that I KNEW 
what happens after death.  I merely said that religion is the result of 
the fear of nothing after death.  Not that there WAS nothing after
death.
 Dicere...
 email address (vrmeic@spots.ab.ca) 
Richard Meic
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