(suddenly a flurry of old posts..)
Does my church/theology have anything to say about death,
you are all probably
asking yourself...:-)
"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
If
we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field
has
no limits." ù Wittgenstein, Tractatus
I think religion is more or less a leftover,
More,rather than less :-) It takes a lot of picking and discarding the accretions over the centuries to find the core of what is going
on...describing a spiritual experience is like describing your love for
your mother...even if you could do it EXACTLY, it wouldn't be heard
exactly.
of when death was easy to come
by.
Or perhaps caused more fear. Thinking about heaven is supposed to lessen
that.
Nowadays, people can be revived after having "died."
Yes, only recently for what? an hour? A Loooong time. Death will never
happen to me. For 'me'' will not exist. OR, take the view of parallel universes, and realize that Schrodingers Cat never knows of the other
universes in which the cat dies.
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