RE: Life after death?
July 6, 2014 at 3:38 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2014 at 3:40 pm by Cinjin.)
(July 4, 2014 at 12:06 am)Purplundy Wrote:(July 3, 2014 at 8:49 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Everybody is just supposedly the same and looks back on their life with pure satisfaction before enjoying perfect love and happy happy joy joy????The following question is unrelated to your views on the afterlife,
but,
not to discount the suffering of anyone,
what if we simply assume that some people are less happy because our lives are better by comparison?
With the exception of regular people who suffer extreme tragedy, like the family members of the passengers of the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight,
people who are born into poor conditions do not necessarily wake up crying in the mornings.
You mentioned kids starving in Africa. I would like to disclose that I happen to have strong African roots. My parents are immigrants. I've also spent a few years in Nigeria, the country with the Islamic radical terrorists in half of the country.
If I had to spend the rest of my life in Africa, I'd shoot myself.
But then there are the people who permanently reside in this developing terrorist-infested nation with a middle-class that gets electricity half the day.
With my personal experience, I would fiercely argue that they do not feel that their lives are as bad as you might think.
IF I had made some sort of sweeping generalization about everyone living in Africa rather than the statement I actually made, then you might have a point, but as it stands now, you omitted a couple key words: starving children
Additionally, you yourself wrote "I'd shoot myself" if you had to live in Africa for the rest of your life ... something that seems far more insulting to Africans than anything that you CLAIMED that I said.
These two points I've made tend to hold moot the butthurt you seem to have over my remarks about the general depressing plight of starving children. I was merely pointing out that there are those whose lives are not as beautiful and wonderful even in hindsight. Exhibit A:
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Your unwarranted indignation is noted and ignored. My original point stands.