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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: If that's all there is, my friend...
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Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 13:05:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 13:05:18 1984
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> I have never understood why those who believe they are just going to die,
> and that'll be the end, bother living.  If all there is is experiencing
> various facets of life -- growth, pleasure, relating, whatever -- with nothing
> eternal to which these experiences can be added; if all there is is the
> physical body; why do you people bother?  [SARGENT]

I've said it before.  I'll say it again.  Because Jeff sees no purpose for
living if "that's all there is", he *assumes* that there MUST be something
external, otherwise HE would see NO purpose in HIS life.  I'm not slitting
my wrists just because I think that my life will end when my "physical body"
dies (I have no reason to think otherwise...).  I feel sorry for Jeff if he
has such a low opinion of physical life and "the physical body" that he
feels the way he does about there having to be something else.
-- 
If it doesn't change your life, it's not worth doing.     Rich Rosen  pyuxn!rlr