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Re: death
Posted By: koalamom, on host 4.33.110.234
Date: Sunday, December 2, 2001, at 13:39:02
In Reply To: Re: death posted by wintermute on Sunday, December 2, 2001, at 07:15:25:

> > When you die, what will happen with your existance? Will people just fade away, will your life just end in complete darkness, or will you continue on in some type of dream?
> > I've been told that there is a heaven all my life. Yet that is simply because I grew up being told that and I've always believed that. Now, I figured that it isn't really evidenced. Therefor there must be something else.
> > danny"hope not to die soon"wyatt


>
> I don't think anyone can *know* what will happen after death; the best you can do is to believe.
>
> Having said that, I think everyone ends up where they think they deserve to be, be that Heaven, Hell, The Celestial Bureocracy, Valhalla or reincarnated.

>
> winter"Take your pick"mute

There would be no ultimate justice? So Hitler and Stalin* are having a joyous eternity, as long as they themselves thought they deserved it?


In that case, it would seem that the purpose of life is to build up one's self esteem.


koala"no wonder the 'self-help' section in the bookstore is so large"mom

* Couldn't have a true conversation about ultimate justice without dragging those two in somewhere, you know ;-)

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