On 2 Mar, 17:48, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote: > No, I don't fear an afterlife. I generally don't engage in the "what > if" because far too many people say "AH HA, See! You do think about > it!!" or some other silly statement. > I will make an exception for you. > > If Ra is found to be true and calls me to accounting, I will fair > poorly. I'm photo-sensitive and generally don't like the sun. I'm also > far more comfortable in cold temperatures than hot. I think that he > wouldn't appreciate me much. >
Good answer. Although it was a nice turn-of-play to name a particular deity and draw a comparison, you seem to forget that Ra doesn't judge in the Egyptian Mythos, that comes down to Anubis, who weighs your heart against the feather of truth (Maat) LONG before you'd get the chance to see Ra. If you're going to argue within a mythos, then you should, at least, know enough about it to employ it properly. But then, I wouldn't really expect you to come across intellectually regarding those things about which you, admittedly, know little about. That said, I gave some thought about your statement "My only impotent wish (prayer) is that there would be a period just before death that religious people could realise that life is just over and no sky- fairie will justify a wasted existence." I get from that that you would prefer people to come to YOUR senses rather than come to their own. However, you've failed to consider that your own belief may, 'just as' easily be erroneous, as it, too, is based on no evidence. Consider, for a moment that you are, in fact, wrong. To hold such a wish would be to deprive the masses of the one thing that can help them for all eternity and THAT is about the most heinous and cold- hearted desire that I think I've ever read on this group. Top ratings for that. Remember, Anubis weighs the heart and, if it doesn't weigh evenly, your heart is passed to Ammit, the Devourer of Souls, where she may either eat it (forcing you to die a second death) or cast it into a lake of fire in which you would burn eternally. Not too much different from modern concepts of Hell. > On Mar 2, 9:26 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 19 Feb, 19:46, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > No, I don't. You keep saying this to quite a few people, it seems true > > > for none of them. I do not pray I'm right anymore than I pray to avoid > > > menopause or ovarian cancer. Not only is there more evidence that I'm > > > correct (thus removing the silliness of prayer from the equation), > > > there is no evidence at all for souls, gods, fairies, or onenesses. My > > > only impotent wish (prayer) is that there would be a period just > > > before death that religious people could realise that life is just > > > over and no sky-fairie will justify a wasted existence. > > > My statement had a little smiling face indicating I was jibing you. I > > expect that your wish, then, will fall on deaf ears. Do you fear an > > afterlife? Assuming, for argument's sake, that there is one, how do > > you think you'd fare? > > > > On Feb 19, 3:40 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 18 Feb, 15:20, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > no there won't > > > > > So you pray!! ;-) > > > > > > On Feb 18, 5:03 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On 18 Feb, 04:25, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > sorry slip, I'm not a theist. I don't give up because a bronze age > > > > > > > goatherder said so or take some schizophrenics word for complete > > > > > > > knowledge of "truth." I did hear that a oneness said something or > > > > > > > other to a guy named firm-palm-touch... of course that particular > > > > > > > theist won't publish the idea in a peer-reviewed journal... > > > > > > > That would, of course, be because there isn't a peer-review table of > > > > > > existing, recognised prophets. Don't waste time on being sorry > > > > > > you're > > > > > > not a theist now, Fidd. There'll be plenty of time for that > > > > > > later. ;-) > > > > > > > > On Feb 17, 7:52 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > It doesn't really matter fidd, we're only heading toward a > > > > > > > > nuclear > > > > > > > > holocaust anyway and the threat of such is currently escalating. > > > > > > > > Haven't you heard? It's already documented in the space-time > > > > > > > > continuum; we just haven't received the bulletin yet. > > > > > > > > > On Feb 17, 9:38 pm, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Possibly the only true death penalty/unforgivable crime > > > > > > > > > category: the > > > > > > > > > poaching of fellow primates and destruction of habitat for our > > > > > > > > > cousins. How long until we are the only african ape? Too damn > > > > > > > > > long for > > > > > > > > > poachers and witch-doctors. > > > > > > > > > >http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/02/17/endangered.species/index.h... > > > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
