X-Message-Number: 24892 From: "Michael C Price" <> References: <> Subject: Hell! (.... was Immortalism, my comments) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:26:26 +0100 Mike Perry writes: > I think the prospect of such resurrections is realistic due to > certain other possibilities I consider likely, such as parallel > universes. It's important to me that a pathway to the renewal > of life exist--so the dead will have not died in vain, and all will, > one hopes, eventually enjoy eternal bliss. Overall it suggests that > life, not death, is the ultimate fate of any individual, even those > who are sure they don't want immortality--you will just have to > learn to live with it, whether you like it or not. (You will like it > in the end, however, I feel reasonably sure.) In the scientifically > engineered heaven that I imagine In the infinity diverse multiverse which you & I believe in there must be scientifically engineered hells full of boiling pitch and demons with pitchforks, "creepy-crawly things or lakes of lava". Of course we can find shaky super-rationalist based arguments, to say that the heavens must outnumber the hells (just many modern Christians prefer to believe in heaven but not hell), but hells must exist *somewhere* in this paradigm. This is one reason *not* rely on universal resurrection, but to try to live in *this* reality, forever. See you in hell, buddy. :-( Michael C Price Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24892