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Article #476Re: RIP Bob Pease
From: kreed
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:31
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:31
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On Jun 21, 5:07 pm, Martin Brown <|||newspam...@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On 21/06/2011 05:48, Don Klipstein wrote: > > > In<p07007dpakj4p93qajedhpprq7rogaf...@4ax.com>, OutsideObserver wrote: > > > <SNIP to here> > > >> 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. > > > > > <SNIP from here> > > > 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 Superannuation will end up in the same way also.
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