Mark Earnest said the following on 2/14/2008 4:41 PM:
> "DanielSan"
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> news:zv6dnZPM_Zp2VS7anZ2dnUVZ_hOdnZ2d@comcast.com...>> Mark Earnest said the following on 2/13/2008 7:58 PM:
>>> "DanielSan"
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>>> news:V7mdnVXfCclQKC7anZ2dnUVZ_qPinZ2d@comcast.com...>>>> Mark Earnest said the following on 2/13/2008 7:12 PM:
>>>>> "DanielSan"
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>>>>> news:5MidncMuio8oMi7anZ2dnUVZ_jWdnZ2d@comcast.com...>>>>>> Mark Earnest said the following on 2/13/2008 2:19 PM:
>>>>>>> "DanielSan"
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>>>>>>> news:t_OdnbEfiOwnUi_anZ2dnUVZ_iydnZ2d@comcast.com...>>>>>>>> Mark Earnest said the following on 2/12/2008 9:36 PM:
>>>>>>>>> "DanielSan"
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>>>>>>>>> news:hamdnfOKnMBD5i_anZ2dnUVZ_q7inZ2d@comcast.com...>>>>>>>>>> Mark Earnest said the following on 2/12/2008 9:08 PM:
>>>>>>>>>>> "Enkidu"
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>>>>>>>>>>> news:Xns9A42D0D52C10F255229@130.133.1.4...>>>>>>>>>>>> "Mark Earnest"
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Enkidu"
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> news:Xns9A42CA050DC2D255229@130.133.1.4...>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Mark Earnest"
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "DanielSan" wrote....
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The first of the new species aka 'Adam' lived, 960
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> years.....
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Prove it.*************************
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There's no way for you to know unless you understand the only
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> kind of proof there really is: what God says to be true.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> We'll put you down for "can't."
>>>>>>>>>>>>> And I'll put you down for ignorant.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Exactly what am I "ignorant" of?
>>>>>>>>>>> Facts, in their most basic format.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> No one knows anything at all unless God tells it to them.
>>>>>>>>>> "God" has never told me a single thing because I do not believe
>>>>>>>>>> this entity exists.
>>>>>>>>> You don't have to believe he exists in order to hear him.
>>>>>>>>> Even insects hear him.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Prove it.
>>>>>>> *****The proof is in the pudding.
>>>>>> No, that's milk and chocolate.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What's "he" sound like?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *****like the sound of many waters.
>>>>>> You might want to call a plumber.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How do you know what you're hearing
>>>>>>>> is "God"?
>>>>>>> *****It is the amazing awareness that you suddenly have the peaceful
>>>>>>> assurance of something, as if you were never certain of anything else
>>>>>>> before.
>>>>>> I had something like that once. It's the realization that I was an
>>>>>> atheist.
>>>>> The realization that one day all this will end, and you will never
>>>>> exist again.
>>>> Just like before you were born?
>>>>
>>>>> Pretty depression a view of reality, if you ask me.
>>>> Not really. Not to me. It's actually very exciting. There's all this
>>>> fun stuff I can do during the time I'm alive and it's a limited time
>>>> offer. It doesn't allow me to sit around and do nothing.
>>> But if it all ends, it makes absolutely no difference whatsoever.
>>> Because when you die, none, nada, zilch.
>> Not to the people that you touch throughout your life and the people they
>> touch.
>>
>>>
>>>> An everlasting existence, even in "paradise" would be horrifying for me.
>>> What if that paradise was on Earth, in the real world, in the future?
>> Just as bad. An eternal existence, period, is horrifying to the point of
>> me being sick to my stomach.
>
> What if you had fun for all eternity, right here on Earth?
> Maybe you could go hunting dragons and fighting them for treasure
> and magic items.
After 150 million years, I think I'd be done doing everything that could
ever be done, then I'll be bored for trillions of years.
No, y'see, the limits and deadline placed upon me by my mortality is
what makes it fun. If I was forverlasting, I'd go insane. It is the
quintessence of hell to never die.
Riding on a rollercoaster: Super fun
Riding on a rollercoaster for 36 hours without stopping: Rote (if
nauseating)
No, no matter what you say, an everlasting existence is absolutely
horrifying to me.
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