Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-hermes.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-hermes!daemon From: daemon@mit-hermes.ARPA (The devil himself) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: philosophy Message-ID: <2451@mit-hermes.ARPA> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 18:46:23 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-herm.2451 Posted: Fri Aug 16 18:46:23 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 07:06:38 EDT Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 35 From ROBCHRJ%YALEVMX.BITNET@UCB-VAX.BERKELEY.EDU Fri Aug 16 18:46:06 1985 Received: from UCB-VAX.BERKELEY.EDU (ucb-vax.arpa.ARPA) by MIT-HERMES.ARPA (4.12/4.8) id AA02469; Fri, 16 Aug 85 18:46:06 edt Received: from ucbjade.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (JADE.BERKELEY.EDU) by UCB-VAX.BERKELEY.EDU (5.5/1.2) id AA12924; Fri, 16 Aug 85 15:05:02 PDT Received: from UCBVAX.ARPA by ucbjade.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (4.19/4.36.2) id AA01702; Fri, 16 Aug 85 15:04:34 pdt Date: Fri, 16 Aug 85 15:04:32 pdt From: ROBCHRJ%YALEVMX.BITNET@UCB-VAX.BERKELEY.EDU Message-Id: <8508162204.AA01702@ucbjade.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Apparently-To:Subject: Re: Souls References: <1220@umcp-cs.UUCP> > 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 ---- ..it's the death that's worse than fate...