03-14-2008, 09:48 PM | #11 | |
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The people that shoot students at a college. They are trying to make their mark. "Billy wuz here 2007" |
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I have heard that but I can't get my mind around it. WHat value does immortality have if you can't see it, feel it, touch it or understand it? If you are not there or even observing, who cares? This is particualry true for people that create the immortality bestowing condition, menaing shoters at schools, for example.
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I'm with Waters on this. Well stated.
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Btw, I'm not trying to suggest that you or MW are wrong abotu what you see in literature, etc., but I am saying when I look at guys like the colombine losers, I just don't get their motivation to the extent it involves making a mark of immortality.
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You're with him? What is that supposed to mean? Are you seeing an argument here?
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03-14-2008, 11:30 PM | #18 | |
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You're right on the King issue, but my overall puzzlement on this issue is still hanging out there. Do you mena to say the Personal Glory is also post-life? Do you think he wasn't seeking glory in this life, menaing glory he could enjoy, even if briefly?
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03-14-2008, 11:32 PM | #19 |
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Well, he's gonna be dead one way or another. Might as well have people remember you.
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Hmmm. That's where I don't get it. Who cares if they remeber? Why does it matter? We're all going to be dead anyway no matter what so that can't be what drives it.
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