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Subject: Re: Souls
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> Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  How about NOTHING survives????  How about
> we die completely?  Why is there this need for continuity?  That's precisely
> the point!  It's YOUR assumption that life after death implies survival of
> death.  On what metaphysical basis do you intend to prove this?
>
> Charley Wingate

I don't have any problem with 'nothing survives'; I don't even have a problem
with a Christian proclaiming that 'nothing survives' (see Charles Hartshorne
for a Christian view of mortality -- incidentally, are you a Unitarian,
Charley?  Just curious); but I do wonder what 'life after death' means if it
doesn't mean that we survive death.  Could you please explain further?


Christopher Roberson
Calhoun College, Yale University
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..it's the death that's worse than fate...