(April 16, 2014 at 4:18 am)smax Wrote: And maybe that's the beauty and irony of mortality, the fact that it gives us the ability to truly experience things, both good and bad. It makes us live life and experience life.I do believe you've got it.
In a finite universe, eternity results in every permutation of events happening an infinite number of times. No activitiy can retain meaning after that kind of repetition. See Wowbagger the infinitely prolonged for a valiant but failed attempt at fighting this. Wowbagger
Religion's best promise turns out to be worse than empty. Sort of a bait and switch.
Life's limited span is an important factor in what makes it so precious.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
