🚀 go-pugleaf

On 21/06/2011 05:48, Don Klipstein wrote:
> In<p07007dpakj4p93qajedhpprq7rogaflti@4ax.com>, OutsideObserver wrote:
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>>   In Heaven, you will have no gender.  You will have no gadgetry.
>> You will have no desires of the flesh.

And it will be fantastically boring after a very short while. In the 
first third of eternity you can solve chess. Then you can solve Go on 
every size of board and after that it will get pretty boring.

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> <SNIP from here>
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>    What if you and your spouse, girlfriend or boyfriend both make it to
> Heaven?
>
>    If that ends up lacking pleasures of body sensations or even good-
> feelings from dressing-up or dressing-sexy, then why should this be
> preferable over alternatives such as extinguishing,
> reincarnation or Hell?

The main selling point in antiquity was that you would not always be in 
danger of starving to death nor could you be killed again.

The key point of the "jam tomorrow" promise was that starving serfs 
would loyally follow their kings into battle because the established 
Church took 10% of what little they had off them and told them that the 
King was God's representative on Earth. Failure to follow His orders 
immediately condemned you to an eternity of Hellfire.

A cunning scheme and probably the canonical "jam tomorrow" scam.

It's modern equivalent in a more materialistic world is the Nigerian 419 
scam - which promises a shorter wait for your share of $20M.

Regards,
Martin Brown