--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" <compost1uk@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@>
> wrote:
> >
> >..Atheists have no "I told you so" fantasies. There will be no "in your
> >face believers" for us. There will just be the same non existence that
> >existed for us before our birth about which Mark Twain wryly wrote that he
> >didn't exist for millions of years before his birth and it didn't bother him
> >at all!
Could there be degrees of non-existence? I mean, if we are
to believe the Big Bang egg-heads, Time itself was created 13
odd billion years or so ago. That suggests a four stage taxonomy
of non-being for each of us:
* The Big Nada: Our non-existence before Time existed
* The Little Nada: Our non-existence in Time, but before
our birth.
* The Lesser Zilch: The aeons of our non-being stretching ahead
* The Greater Zilch: our non-being after Time ends.
It's funny to think that "non being" could be differentiated.
But then they say that that funny quantum vacuum thing is
a not-nothing *thing* of emptiness and non-being (roughly ;-) ),
don't they?
> Though it must have been the mother of all surprises when
> he found himself "waking up".
>
> ("Uh oh, here we go again"?)
>
