(April 9, 2015 at 10:03 pm)datc Wrote:(April 9, 2015 at 9:35 pm)Sionnach Wrote: Enjoy your mythology.
It's not mythology but an argument.
1. If you don't desire to live forever now, then you have no reason to prepare yourself for eternal life.
2. Even if upon entering heaven or paradise and seeing for yourself what it's like, you change your mind, an unprepared person cannot remain there, as he has not proofed himself again suicide even after "8 trillion" years of existing there.
3. What your fate may be is anyone's guess; for example, you may be reincarnated again and again until you are so eager to live that even eternal life will be worth living while being yourself.
4. A considered and fully informed decision to die forever will likely be honored.
5. Then: If you definitely want to live forever, you can; and if you definitely want to die, you also can. These are mutually exclusive: an eternal life is forever; dying at any point means that life is not forever and so not eternal.
6. The former entails preparing yourself for it. For example, one thing you need to do is to cement your own personality, so that you are not ashamed of anything in yourself and can enjoy your life without guilt.
7. If there is no eternal life, yet you believe there is, then at the worst you'll become a morally good person.
8. If there is eternal life, yet you believe there is not, then you doom yourself (perhaps) to an endless and pointless cycle of disconnected "reincarnations."
9. Place your bet.
I will say this for you; you present your points quite clearly, and the general impression I get from you is that of a decent human being. I agree with very little of what you say, but I am an advocate of credit where credit is due

However...
How did we suddenly get to reincarnation? You're of the christian faith right, I wasn't aware you guys were big on that. At least be consistent in your nonsense.
You must surely see how so much of your faith is built upon wish-fulfillment. An emotional need (or at least, the illusion of one, that many people have liberated themselves from) to have something happen after death, to have that eternal life, is pure fantasy. It goes against all that we know in modern science, it flies in the face of biology, physics and basic logic. Will you at least acknowledge the wish-fulfillment aspect of it?
The wager is not logical, because it is fundamentally flawed as a logical standpoint. No matter how hard people try, they cannot believe anything they don't already, and the punishment for non-belief, no matter how moral you are, is to BURN FOR ETERNITY. I will capitalise that every single time I use it, because it is such an abhorrent thought that God could allow it, I really want to hammer it home into the minds of theists.
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