JLNobody wrote:Sorry, Chumly. It really sounded like a serious challenge for evidence.
It IS possible that fear of death preceded the advent of Christianity (and the other Abrahamic religions). If you ask for my GUESS, I would conjecture that human fear of oblivion is fairly basic. Out of that we develop defensive notions of after-lives, many of them less than ideal but at least better than oblivion.
It is my guess that Christianity came along and informed the people that they need not fear oblivion, that their fear SHOULD be of Hell, but that, although there is no escape from oblivion in the extra Christian model, there IS escape from Hell.
As I see it "oblivion" is a meaningless notion since--to paraphrase my earlier thesis--once the individual has died there is no individual to be in a state of oblivion. No subject, no predicate.
You've triggered the first stage of a booby trap and now have the option of cutting one of two wires to disable the bomb.
One of the wires will detonate the bomb and the other wire will disable the bomb.
There is no way you can know in time which wire to cut as you have only 5 seconds left on the bomb's timer at which point it will explode and kill you by default.
If you cut the wrong wire and the bomb explodes you will die and thus have no further worries about the bomb, if you cut the right wire and the bomb does not explode you will have no further worries about the bomb.
I both cases although the results are different, the net is the cessation of worrying about the bomb, right?
Within the context of this limited scenario is there a logical rationale to worry about which wire to cut?
Within the context of this thread (in as much as it can be applied to this thread) is there a logical rationale to worry about which wire to cut?
