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Subject: Where?


Author:
Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 07/15/04 9:17pm
In reply to: QUITTNER 's message, "Relevancy to previous posts" on 07/15/04 1:49pm

>Wayne, you wrote: >>> It doesn't mean that you
>magically become an entity that has existed for an
>infinite amount of time. <<<

Who's Wayne?

>..... 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.

Well, I don't. Neither do most Christians.


>>>> 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.

Wow. So what's the relevance? How does this even remotely affect the veracity of any of the premises?

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