A Better Place
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A better place?
As far as I’m aware, when brain function ceases, you’r dead. IE no longer aware , of anything., so you will have no idea of where you are..
There are two choices; into the ground or into the furnace.
Harder to argue any kind of consciousness once one is reduced to a small box of fine ash. The skull often doesn’t burn to ash, so is specially pulverised so as to take up less space and to prevent the bereaved from freaking out.
I have a phobia about being buried alive. My sister in law is a “White Lady” funeral director, so I asked her. She opined that a live burial was unlikely. What she actually said was ” Put it this way; if you’re not dead when we get you, you bloody well are when we’re finished with you!” (here in Oz, soley for profit reasons, the deceased are routinely embalmed)
To answer the question: If you are in extreme pain, or just totally fed up, I guess being dead would be better place to be.
I’ve always thought it most unfair that: If a Christian is wrong, he/she won’t know about it.If we atheists are wrong, and YHWH is real, we’ll be acutely and most unpleasantly aware. –yet another reason to suspect God does not exist. Albeit, not as strong as the existence of the Babel fish.
I’ve always thought it most unfair that: If a Christian is wrong, he/she won’t know about it.If we atheists are wrong, and YHWH is real, we’ll be acutely and most unpleasantly aware.
Yes, Blaise Pascal worked that out long ago. We really should join the worship team.
Yair, the idiocy of Pascal’s wager. Seems to be based on the assumption that God is especially stupid ,and overlooks basic Christian teaching that god can see into everyone’s heart. I mean really, that anyone could get away with lying to god , as Christians describe him.
Irrelevant to me. I read perhaps 40 years ago the honest atheist who has lived good life will have no probs getting into heaven. Added to that is my recent discovery that the notion of an eternal hell is a Christian invention. I think I’m covered regardless.–Tell ya what though, I’m going to be royally pissed off if I’m mistaken
Even people who accept evolution believe in “heaven”.
Yeah, and Elvis is a live and living in Tweed, Ontario. He performs twice a year. You should go check it out.
Well yair, Evolution is officially accepted by Catholics. No conflict is seem with the Book Of Genesis, which is not seen as literal.
At the Catholic school I attended, we were taught Catholics have no problem with evolution or Genesis, because we don’t know just how long the days of creation were.
The Hindus also have a cosmological belief of aeons between the Yuga ages. (we are currently in Kali Yuga, which is not good, at all) This based on the notion that time for the gods is very different, and consists of vast numbers of human years.
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