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QUITTNER
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Date Posted: 07/15/04 1:49pm
In reply to:
Wade A. Tisthammer
's message, "I suppose not..." on 07/13/04 9:23pm
Wayne, you wrote: >>> It doesn't mean that you magically become an entity that has existed for an infinite amount of time. <<<
..... Probably some, or even many, people did think that they, as believers, would by magic(?) never die, while non-believers' finite life span woud remain unchanged.
>>> And exactly how is this relevant to anything I've been talking about (the metaphysical impossibility of an infinite past)?
..... An "infinite past" (maybe not quite infinite) is also believed in by many, especially in Asia; that they have lived many lifes before (reincarnation). Compare with, for example, the Tibetan book of the dead.
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