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To: epicure who wrote (20506)	4/16/1998 2:02:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

X, I also believe the unexamined life is not worth living. What is the quality of life when you come into it, absorb your belief system from your parents and a narrow childhood experience, and just go on and live exactly the same way? It seems rather by rote. I think Christians, or anyone else, really, can examine their lives and conclude that they wouldn't change much, so I am not saying that an examined life is always a radically different one from the one which would have been led. But at that point you OWN your own beliefs, and I think that is important. I do think there is something we haven't discussed here before, and it is that children privileged enough to go to college go through this process of examination rather naturally unless they go to conservative religious institutions. Because I think it a worthwhile process for everyone to go through, in terms of intellectual and emotional growth, I believe it would be very positive to create a high school curriculum where all teenagers have similar opportunities. I guess it would have to include the traditional study of comparative religions class with a critical thinking skills class, as well.

To: epicure who wrote (20506)	4/16/1998 5:54:00 PM
From: James R. Barrett	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

X, picture this scenario. Next week God appears in the sky and in a booming voice says: I am God of the Universe, I created the Universe and I created you. There has been a nagging question on Earth about my existence for some time and I just wanted to clear the matter up. First of all, as you can plainly see, I do exist. Second, all of you optimists down there who think that there is an after life are WRONG. There is no hell and there is no heaven. When your dead, your dead. You will simply rot in your grave and nourish a tree with your organic molecules. Enjoy yourselves while you can because I will never be seeing you again. Well, gotta go and make another galaxy. By ******************************************************************************* It is ironic that all organized religions would quickly dissolve after God showed himself. The problem being of course...... He wasn't the God we had in mind. Jim

To: epicure who wrote (20506)	4/17/1998 1:27:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

X, I concede that I said that probability is more scientific than likelihood. You're right. It is a small point. I agree that an unexamined life is not worth living. I try to be my own devil's advocate. Anybody exactly following everything that was taught to them by their parents is living their parent's life, not their own. I have rejected the Catholicism of my parents, but still carry their other influences. I have discussed my Atheism with my mother, and she is very understanding. We get into no arguments over the issue. She only cares that I am an honest and caring person, which I try to be. She still unfailingly drags herself to church every Sunday and Holy Day, and that's just fine with me, except that I know that she is in a lot of pain, and I don't like to see her suffer walking to the church a block away. She gets comfort in feeling that the pain is penance for her sins. I can't imagine what kind of sins an 83 year old woman is committing. I'm sure she is praying for me. My dad drilled into me countless times "early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." I go to bed around 2:30 A.M. nearly every day, and get up around 10, unless I have an important reason to get up earlier, which I rarely have. I am fairly healthy, not that stupid, and I am doing fine financially. Oh well, sorry pa. Del