Path: ...!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweak.nl!217.73.144.44.MISMATCH!feeder.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!168.119.53.7.MISMATCH!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cursitor Doom Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Do you condemn Hamas? Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 23:37:40 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 01:37:40 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6d5549604768fdd1ab6b3d3fe424fed3"; logging-data="2262691"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/EAqHiOnPZIvUiAkjmyW4Kcu2E8p94EAk=" User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4nOirn6/MZbmOv+mcNbjUo1u7XU= Bytes: 2940 On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 23:57:54 +0200, Jeroen Belleman wrote: > On 6/7/24 23:11, Mike Monett VE3BTI wrote: >> Jeroen Belleman wrote: >> >>> On 6/7/24 16:49, john larkin wrote: >>> [...] >>>> >>>> Actually, Hamas makes sense. They send Jews to hell because they are >>>> heretics, and send Muslims to heaven to be blessed martyrs. So for >>>> Hamas, killing is always win-win. >>>> >>>> >>> Some kind of sense, given that there is neither heaven, nor hell. >>> Religion, islam in particular, is only pernicious brainwashing. There >>> is no afterlife. There is only this life. Don't waste it. >>> >>> Jeroen Belleman >> >> Learn how to do soul travel. It is the most important thing to do this >> lifetime. It will give you absolute proof there is life past this one, >> and that you are immortal. > > I don't know what soul travel is, but I'm sure there is no afterlife, > just as there was no forelife. There is no soul. My existence is the > result of an uninterrupted sequence of incredibly improbable events, > going back billions of years into the past, and I will cease to exist, > never to come back, > when some essential part of my body fails. > > While I'm certainly not looking forward to dying, I'm not afraid of > being dead. The need to believe in an afterlife is just another of those > weird religious ideas. > > Jeroen Belleman Well, I'm not religious at all but am convinced there's an after-life. And that's not just so I can feel all warm and fuzzy. I actually find the prospect deeply concerning. I'd much rather be like you in outlook!