RE: Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism
September 15, 2022 at 3:09 pm
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2022 at 3:15 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 15, 2022 at 3:01 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(September 15, 2022 at 1:28 pm)R00tKiT Wrote: Are you sure about this ? People still talk about Ted Bundy to this day, almost 30 years after his death. I think you misunderstood the OP and, mistakenly, thought that by transcending death I meant being famous among people. Well, no, not at all. People like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer are reasonably famous, but I think we can both agree that their deeds don't really transcend space and time.
People talking about you long after your death is definitely not a good metric of how meaningful your life was.
Does literally anyone expect that their deeds will transcend space and time? Even in Becker, while it's been years since I've read him, I don't think the immortality projects he talks about are even supposed to go quite as far as that. Creating something that will leave an impact for generations to come, yeah, but outright transcending space and time?
Yes! Most people at least hope, one way or another, to achieve any of the many kinds of immortality humans have described and sought. A god gifting it is such a narrow slice of that. This world can outlast me but not withstand me. No prison can hold me, and I'll be getting out of here over the walls or under them. It's not my home, I'm just passing through. I've got pretty low odds for establishing something that lasts to the very end...but every day I wake up and stack more blocks to that effect.
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