On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 1:50:33 AM UTC-6, Ophelia wrote:
> "Roy" wrote in message
> ...
>
> On Monday, October 2, 2017 at 11:05:49 AM UTC-6, Casa de Masa wrote:
> > On 10/2/2017 10:59 AM, Roy wrote:
> > > On Monday, October 2, 2017 at 10:54:05 AM UTC-6, Casa de Masa wrote:
> > >> On 10/2/2017 10:30 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > >>> On Monday, October 2, 2017 at 11:13:52 AM UTC-4, Casa de Masa wrote:
> > >>>> On 10/2/2017 4:30 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > >>>>> On Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 4:55:26 PM UTC-4, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> > >>>>>> On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 12:05:36 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > >>>>>> > wrote:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> On Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 2:09:43 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> > >>>>>>>> On Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 6:40:27 AM UTC-10, Roy wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Blessing animate or inanimate objects is a throw-back to when
> > >>>>>>>>> our forebears
> > >>>>>>>>> (monkeys) were scared living in the jungles. Dem wild cats had
> > >>>>>>>>> big teeth.
> > >>>>>>>>> Blessing anything is a frickin waste of time and effort.
> > >>>>>>>>> =====
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> These rituals and beliefs have it's origins in man's earliest
> > >>>>>>>> days and are buried deep within our DNA. We cannot cast them off
> > >>>>>>>> any more than we can rid ourselves of the remnants of our ancient
> > >>>>>>>> physiology. You could say that the human spine is stupid and a
> > >>>>>>>> frickin waste of time but as far as I know, we're stuck with it
> > >>>>>>>> for the next few hundred thousand generations.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Perhaps not you, but some of us can cast them off. I have no
> > >>>>>>> truck with
> > >>>>>>> superstition.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> How about tradition? I think it helps define us, securing our
> > >>>>>> memories of who we are and where we came from.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> I am me. I am the sum of my experiences. Those experiences contain
> > >>>>> less and less superstition every year. When I was a child, I
> > >>>>> believed
> > >>>>> in Santa Claus. No need for him anymore.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Cindy Hamilton
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> How are you on life after death?
> > >>>
> > >>> No such thing.
> > >>
> > >> Ding!
> > >>
> > >> Wrong:
> > >>
> > >> http://ebenalexander.com/
> > >>
> > >> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/bo...of-heaven.html
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>> Because the soul goes on.
> > >>>
> > >>> No evidence.
> > >>
> > >> Wrong:
> > >>
> > >> http://ndestories.org/
> > >>
> > >> https://www.iands.org/ndes/nde-stori...the-light.html
> > >>
> > >> https://www.nderf.org/
> > >>
> > >> http://www.near-death.com/reincarnat...-benedict.html
> > >>
> > >>> Come back after you're dead and prove me wrong.
> > >>>
> > >>> Cindy Hamilton
> > >>
> > >> You presume I'll be gone before you will, and too that there would be a
> > >> thing to be gained by sharing with you a reality you are heavily
> > >> invested in denying.
> > >>
> > >> No, I'll save my visitations for those of open mind and spirit, no
> > >> sense
> > >> nor perceived recompense in yanking intransigent non-believers from
> > >> their self-induced state of spiritual torpor that I can measure.
> > >
> > > There will be no visitations from YOU...
> >
> > I stated as much already, oh dense one...
> >
> > because you will be worm food
> >
> > Nope - cremation.
> >
> > > and your so-called soul will have vanished when you fricken well
> > > expired.
> > > Know-it-all PHONY.
> >
> >
> > Great lessons await even you roy boy, though it may mean a dozen more
> > lives here on planet prison for you to even begin to evolve past your
> > hatred and narrow-mindedness.
> >
> > enjoy!
>
> One has ONE life...after that NOTHING. End of discussion.
>
> ==
>
> Roy, how do you know this? I would be grateful if you could prove it for
> me!
>
I will gladly prove it IF you can show me proof of LIFE after death.
I kill a fly...it doesn't come back to life. A person dies...how in HELL
CAN THEY HAVE A SECOND LIFE? It is an illusion dreamed up by early man
and propagated and promoted by population after population as it is not
questioned except by intelligent people who challenge the logic or
non-logic of it.
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