On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> No one is denying that death results in oblivion. Then what are we arguing about? > > But that is not the point. It isn't?! > My claim was that no one has experienced oblivion. In common parlance, we > routinely say that everyone experiences death at the end of their lives. > Hence the distinction made between death and oblivion in this context. > So this entire death vs oblivion debate has nothing to do with the nature of reality, it's about grammar and how one particular language out of the 7000 in use on this planet happens to use 2 words. And as for the fear of death stuff, are we asked to believe that if you learned right now that tomorrow morning at 9am a firing squad was going to put several bullets into your brain you wouldn't be the slightest bit apprehensive and would go to bed tonight just as you always do and sleep like a baby without a care in the world? John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
