You see RP sometimes I think you make perfect sense but mostly your insistance on generalising winds me up no end. Of course this does not explain Athiests, or my own stance on death, or for that matter lots of people. We are of course all differant with differant subjective ways of seeing things and viewing life. Myself being a Theist I'm still unsure as to the existance of a Soul, I mean I really don't know yet if I belive such a thing exists. My own reasons for beliving in creative diety are many and complex. Belife simply cannot be stripped down to pithey sounding short sentances that apply to all humans, because clearly they do not apply to all humans. On another subject I have just posted that I have no fear of death and have accepted that it may come at any time. Perhaps then you do not realise how insulting it is to be called a liar. Or perhaps i'm too involved with semantics and concentrate more on your choice of words than the message, ahhh but how else is one to treat written communication? I must trust that the words you use, you have choosen to portay your meaning. So when you say 'Yet we do not accept it...' I must belive that this is exactly what you mean to say, in effect you reduce me, and all other individuals to a mass of humainity that follw the same rules.
On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 10:05:19 UTC, RP Singh wrote: > There is death all around us and so we cannot fail to see it , yet we > do not accept it and so we have developed an idea of souls. Our belief > in after-life or re-births is our insistence on immortality as we find > it hard to accept that we will go into a permanent oblivion , never to > return.The instinct for survival makes us readily accept these notions > of immortality as our intelligence is also coloured by our instincts. > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Lee Douglas > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Heh where do you find these little sayings of yours RP. Nope I don't > agree > > this is true . > > > > Personaly I have spent some years questioning the attitude to life and > death > > that we have. It seems that for most life in and of itself is kinda > sacred, > > or at least we act like it is. I'm not sure on this though. Dawin > shows us > > that outside of our species death is a part of life and comes all too > > easily. So I must say that life in and of itself is nothing special. > Then > > you must mean life as we humans percive it. However, I am now fully > > resigend to my own death and it will come when it does, and this no > longer > > holds any fear for me. > > > > My own desires to live to be at least 400 years old though is by now > widely > > reported here, and in other places. This is not for the reasons you > > highlight above but sheer couriosity. We are I feel at the cusp of > > enourmous change, over the next few hundred years we as a species are > about > > to change in so many ways, and I want to see it. > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 07:28:21 UTC, RP Singh wrote: > >> > >> Attachment to life is the cause of the desire for immortality and the > >> readiness to believe in an after-life or re-birth. It is an off-shoot > of the > >> instinct for survival. > > > > -- > > > > > > > --
