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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: Do you condemn Hamas?
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 10:43:15 +0200
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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 <jeroen@nospam.please> 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