Path: ...!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:45:08 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Do you condemn Hamas? Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 07:45:08 -0700 Message-ID: <7er86jt9l8ob35kvnhieb0ne3cn2e12n5f@4ax.com> References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 60 X-Trace: sv3-Slh7A3nY/56q3EM7TIREqioZDTPWJwOOHJh/JJPZOaFHoXr1pO5yBj4N8S0s648QfowYOMM5Y2Ar3pC!TMK3EUF+qemaMOc6Zz34Dxefl1j3d3MhSOoWOCy0ufmY9RTUbz7eHo6n89ZBfSeOovQCfozutTGN!JEv6+A== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3689 On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 09:54:42 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom wrote: >On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 10:43:15 +0200, Jeroen Belleman wrote: > >> On 6/8/24 01:37, Cursitor Doom wrote: >>> 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! >> >> How did you come to be convinced of the existence of an afterlife, >> and what kind of experience do you expect to have? >> >> Jeroen Belleman > >I'm afraid that's *way* too big and off-topic a subject for expansion on >this forum! Designing electronics has obviously suggestions of quantum consciousness, and even Einstein thought that QM was spooky. Don't give up on miracles quite yet.