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Date Posted: 02/24/02 11:23am
In reply to:
Damoclese
's message, "Good point" on 02/23/02 9:24pm
>I believe that mankinds' ability to
>manipulate its environment may eventually be the
>downfall for him, for each time we retain someone who
>most certainly would have died of illness, we give
>them the opportunity to spread whatever problem it is
>they have to someone else through means of
>procreation.
Or even how the values of society are ultimately affected? Dr. Kevorkian (sp.), the last I heard, was still in jail. But he was jailed for applying the law of nature (arguably); he was standing up for the right of death; which is certainly not a legal right according to conventional law...but understandable from the point of view of the persons wanting to end "suffering". The notion that a "righteous" society would not allow these things presents some interesting concepts to debate.
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>For some reason, humanity has placed a large emphasis
>on life itself, that somehow the notion of dying must
>necessarily be worse than being alive, that anyone can
>mitigate any horrendous act by saying "yeah, but at
>least you aren't dead."
You leave me with the impression that you are quite devoted to science with the posts I have read on this forum. I offer up this "creative" thought.....(I enjoy these creative games when played with methodical, logical minds and I thank you for your indulgence to date). You are the only responder, so I am left to presume there is little interest in pursuing these matters. But I will as long as at least you respond! Here it is:
Will Psychology ever play a greater role in providing evidence than science will allot it now? i.e. evidence in proving certain theories (general); to evidence proving, perhaps, evolution over creation (specific)?
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>Granted, I do not look forward to death, nor do I
>dread it. What it brings I must necessarily accept,
>and perhaps it will be the grandest party, or perhaps
>it will be the most hellish experience ever endured.
>Either way, while I'm here I intend to have a good
>time, and to live honestly so that if I am to be held
>culpable by anyone or anything I can genuinely say
>that I believed what I believed because I thought it
>was so to the best of my knowledge.
There's a wonderful epitaph in there somewhere!! I was surprised by the reference to something beyond death without mention of the possibility of "nothingness".
>....in the words of Einstein, "Time is merely a
>figament of the imagination".
.....I tip my hat; good day to you, Sir.
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