RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 26, 2016 at 7:26 pm
(September 26, 2016 at 7:01 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(September 26, 2016 at 6:44 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I wasn't talking about immortality at all. We were talking about human beings -- mortals. We've been dying since the day we were born.
And -- I've known people in the prime of life physically who certainly wanted to end it ... and two who succeeded in doing so.
But EP WAS speaking of immortality.
Quoting Mister Agendas post:
(September 26, 2016 at 10:27 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Yes. I don't know when, but I suspect that I wouldn't make it close to the trillion trillion years-old mark. People already choose to die because they feel they've lived long enough already.*emphasis mine*
And that wasn't what I was talking about, which I made plain already.
(September 26, 2016 at 7:01 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Also my point was that you don't know anyone PERPETUALLY in their prime that would want to kill themselves.
Thanks, that's pretty obvious. What should be just as obvious is that I was speaking to the human condition, which is clearly outside the bounds of your special condition.
(September 26, 2016 at 7:01 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: An eternal being would have wisdom and experience far beyond your typical 20 year old.
There is no comparison.
Well, it's a good thing I wasn't comparing a human to an immortal, then!