Immortality and the human condition

@pb1022 said
So an eternal life in Heaven, free from the heartache and troubles and violence of this world, is no compensation for a 6-year-old who lost his life to cancer.

If you believe there is certainly a supernatural compensation ~ granted by a creator entity ~ for having a short life, I'm fine with that. Perhaps it helps you to process tragedy.

If you believe there is certainly a supernatural punishment of some kind ~ imposed by a creator entity ~ for being a serial killer, then that's OK; perhaps it satisfies your personal desire with regard to 'justice being done'.

But I don't see how these personal beliefs of yours contradict the idea that there's nothing the matter with a creator entity creating beings with a finite opportunity to experience life.

@fmf said
If you believe there is certainly a supernatural compensation ~ granted by a creator entity ~ for having a short life, I'm fine with that. Perhaps it helps you to process tragedy.

If you believe there is certainly a supernatural punishment of some kind ~ imposed by a creator entity ~ for being a serial killer, then that's OK; perhaps it satisfies your personal desire with reg ...[text shortened]... thing the matter with a creator entity creating beings with a finite opportunity to experience life.

This is all a thought experiment to me. I don’t know why you keep claiming I’m stating what I “believe.”

You’re the one who said several posts back to set aside our personal beliefs about God and now you’re claiming over and over I’m stating what I believe and expressing my beliefs.

Very dishonest of you.

@pb1022 said
Very dishonest of you.

There has been nothing "dishonest" about my posting on this thread at all.

@fmf said
There has been nothing "dishonest" about my posting on this thread at all.

It’s dishonest for you to tell someone to set aside his personal beliefs to engage in a thought experiment and then characterize what he subsequently writes as his “beliefs” and what he “believes.”

That’s very dishonest.

@pb1022 said
It’s dishonest for you to tell someone to set aside his personal beliefs to engage in a thought experiment and then characterize what he subsequently writes as his “beliefs” and what he “believes.”

That’s very dishonest.

I haven't been "dishonest".

@fmf said
I haven't been "dishonest".

When you characterize what I state in a thought experiment as what I “believe,” I say that’s dishonest.

You say otherwise.

Why not leave it at that?

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Why would you (or anyone) spit in the Creator’s face?

@pb1022 said
When you characterize what I state in a thought experiment as what I “believe,” I say that’s dishonest.

I haven't been "dishonest" on this thread.

@fmf said
I haven't been "dishonest" on this thread.

Repeating that doesn’t make it true