RE: Life after death?
July 2, 2014 at 5:07 pm
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2014 at 5:15 pm by Purplundy.)
(July 2, 2014 at 2:02 pm)whateverist Wrote: The world at large apparently begins and ends with the world of people. That strikes me as a little narrow.If you are using the term 'world', I think it does specifically refer to our planet.
Are we a bunch of relatively intelligent carbon units in a potentially infinite universe? Yes.
But that doesn't mean that the human community should be any less valuable to humans, at least. I don't think a human being can have greater achievement beyond helping other people.
(July 2, 2014 at 5:01 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Still no idea what this 'metaphysical self' has to do with any sort of 'life after death' if we as conscious beings aren't around to experience it.I wasn't arguing that a human being could actually live after he or she has died; I'd leave that to Jesus and zombies.
But I'm asserting that the Christian concept of life after death refers to the fact that your actions in life don't go away after you die.
