RE: IF in the end, you find that God does exist ....
June 2, 2015 at 12:34 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2015 at 12:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Eternity sounds like a long time to be one's self. I don't know how my positions might change over eternity, or even that there would be any reason to call that changed self..an eternity from now, the same self. Admittedly, most of my own personal bells and whistles are based on the expected shortness of my existence. I think that this might be in the periphery of
"after you've been tortured in hell you may change your tune"
-I may, but as with eternity above......it's difficult to argue that there is continuity of self.....regarding extreme torture. I could be tormented with hot coals, or tormented with time..and either might coerce me. But in the here and now..before being tortured or tormented...the only self I can make statements for - says I'd remain as uninterested in death as I am in life.
"after you've been tortured in hell you may change your tune"
-I may, but as with eternity above......it's difficult to argue that there is continuity of self.....regarding extreme torture. I could be tormented with hot coals, or tormented with time..and either might coerce me. But in the here and now..before being tortured or tormented...the only self I can make statements for - says I'd remain as uninterested in death as I am in life.
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