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You’d be spending you’re life on any transitory pleasure you could root up.
You’d be buying eternity with the transitory pleasures you could have had.
Being either one or the other would be an extreme case. Like most “buyers”, I’ve done more than my share of spending.
I had a couple brews way too fast, and payed the price. The price was the two brews, and dinner that I had a couple hours before.
I agree with you 100% on categorization. I think there’s a big difference, however, between observation and categorization. Categorization foments ideas of caste systems, Nazis, and the singling out, subjugation, and persecution of the “other” for differences of culture, race, or creed. Observation is just part of ones quest for understanding. Very benign.
Good point about the nonreligious person who thinks of an afterlife. In the framework of my statement, they might or might not be put in the afterlife camp. It would completely depend on how they felt their afterlife should effect their conduct in this life.
You don’t have Halloween in Poland? You must have some sort of spooky holiday, no?
We don’t have too much time here, how do you want to spend it? You can think of it as spending, and buying. I was supposing that if you believe in an afterlife, you’re in a position where that’s a thing that must be, for lack of a better word, bought. If you think THIS is it, then you can’t do much more with your life than spend it; it’s rather like having a fist-full of ride passes at a theme park: if you want to get your monies worth, you have to spend as many of them as you can while you’re there. A heaven-minded person doesn’t have that necessity to spend; they’re investors, buyers. Each will probably think the other is making an unwise use of their time. The spender will feel that the buyer is wasting their precious years in pursuit of an afterlife that isn’t even there, while the buyer will think that the spender is squandering their time on transitory pleasures at the cost of eternity.
In the end, the individual that doesn’t believe in an afterlife must be much more concerned with what they got for their times-worth. In one sense at least, the stakes are higher. He who dies with the most toys, the biggest name, or the biggest impact wins. To a heaven person, while those things may be of interest, they’re just details of a tiney event in an eternal life.
You’d be buying eternity with the transitory pleasures you could have had.
Being either one or the other would be an extreme case. Like most “buyers”, I’ve done more than my share of spending.
I had a couple brews way too fast, and payed the price. The price was the two brews, and dinner that I had a couple hours before.
I agree with you 100% on categorization. I think there’s a big difference, however, between observation and categorization. Categorization foments ideas of caste systems, Nazis, and the singling out, subjugation, and persecution of the “other” for differences of culture, race, or creed. Observation is just part of ones quest for understanding. Very benign.
Good point about the nonreligious person who thinks of an afterlife. In the framework of my statement, they might or might not be put in the afterlife camp. It would completely depend on how they felt their afterlife should effect their conduct in this life.
You don’t have Halloween in Poland? You must have some sort of spooky holiday, no?
We don’t have too much time here, how do you want to spend it? You can think of it as spending, and buying. I was supposing that if you believe in an afterlife, you’re in a position where that’s a thing that must be, for lack of a better word, bought. If you think THIS is it, then you can’t do much more with your life than spend it; it’s rather like having a fist-full of ride passes at a theme park: if you want to get your monies worth, you have to spend as many of them as you can while you’re there. A heaven-minded person doesn’t have that necessity to spend; they’re investors, buyers. Each will probably think the other is making an unwise use of their time. The spender will feel that the buyer is wasting their precious years in pursuit of an afterlife that isn’t even there, while the buyer will think that the spender is squandering their time on transitory pleasures at the cost of eternity.
In the end, the individual that doesn’t believe in an afterlife must be much more concerned with what they got for their times-worth. In one sense at least, the stakes are higher. He who dies with the most toys, the biggest name, or the biggest impact wins. To a heaven person, while those things may be of interest, they’re just details of a tiney event in an eternal life.