zeezrom wrote: I mean it is kind of sad to think of a world in which we don't want or need. It feels robotic.
Not really robotic since even in such a Utopia kvetching will be allowed.
zeezrom wrote: I mean it is kind of sad to think of a world in which we don't want or need. It feels robotic.
zeezrom wrote:The Celestial Kingdom will have unlimited resources? I suppose that means everyone drives huge pickup trucks to the giant grocery store.
Chap wrote:Whenever I read threads like this, in which people attempt to make any detailed sense of what continuing consciousness after bodily decay would be like, the rapid descent of the discussion into either dogmatic assertion or speculative absurdity confirms me in my belief that the whole thing is simply nonsensical. It just ain't gonna happen, people.
Droopy wrote:Chap wrote:Whenever I read threads like this, in which people attempt to make any detailed sense of what continuing consciousness after bodily decay would be like, the rapid descent of the discussion into either dogmatic assertion or speculative absurdity confirms me in my belief that the whole thing is simply nonsensical. It just ain't gonna happen, people.
Your utter lack of a sound, rational basis or logical argument supporting such an assertion is even more interesting.
Chap wrote:
Oh, I don't know about lack of a rational basis:
Mormon statements about what the supposed CK will be like give me the 'dogmatic assertion' bit.
People arguing about whether there will be pickup trucks in the CK: speculative absurdity.
Of course if by 'lack of a sound, rational basis' Droopy means 'not assenting to the factual validity of the teachings of the CoJCoLDS on the subject of what happens to people after death', then I can only say that he has got me there.
(Do I have to argue at length that the burden of proof is on those who assert that, contrary to all observation, human experience continues after the body has died?)