Re: How do you calm down the hot-heads? / Death meme

From: ankara@baynet.net
Date: Thu Aug 21 2003 - 08:29:34 MDT

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      Bruce,
    Isn't there a difference between believing [in death] and the awareness
    of it? Wouldn't the absence of an awareness of death seem like
    immortality? What if the death meme were absent? Why can't we construct
    a better matter transmutation?
    ~ankara

    From: BJKlein <bjk@imminst.org>
      Robert Said:
    >
    >> So by preserving the meme that one "will" die, you don't have
    >> to break the entire christianity/death/salvation meme-set.
    >
    > Robert, just curious, but by preserve the 'death' meme, are you
    > suggesting
    > an afterlife awaits us after death? Or, is death simply oblivion? Or,
    > am I
    > missing some other option you have in mind?
    >
    > Thanks for clarifying this for me. I hope I'm not asking a question
    > that's
    > been asked a hundred times before.
    >
    > Bruce J. Klein
    > http://www.imminst.org

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