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To: Rarebird who wrote (106)	7/30/2005 7:28:11 PM
From: Stan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26251

when you're dead, you're dead. That's it. Finished. Game, set, match, point. If that is true, why put up with the sacrifices it takes to improve yourself, IOW why not eat, drink and party till you die?

To: Rarebird who wrote (106)	7/30/2005 8:54:57 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26251

<Don't bank on it. IMHO, when you're dead, you're dead. That's it. Finished. Game, set, match, point.> IMHO that's just your body... there are simply to many reports by mystics throughout the ages {all the same} and even near death experiences etc documented by psychologists, psychiatrists, and other clinically trained people to deny the divinity of life. DAK

To: Rarebird who wrote (106)	7/31/2005 12:35:47 PM
From: FrozenZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26251

Don't bank on it. IMHO, when you're dead, you're dead. That's it. Finished. Game, set, match, point. You seem to be saying when you are dead there is just nothing, non-existence. But the problem with that premise is that there can be no moment or condition from which awareness is lacking. The absence of one means the absence of the other. You cannot say a vacuum exists on its own. You can perceive a vacuum maybe, but a vacuum cannot exist, or who would be experiencing it? Awareness is what there is and all there is, by the very definition of "is".