<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Friday, October 3, 2014 1:13 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br></span><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">…On Behalf Of John Clark<br></span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">…I don't give a hoot in hell about my cells…</span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It’s one of those what if things, John. What if… we atheists<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">are wrong and there really is a hell, then what if we die, go<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">there because we were flaming atheists, and we find out that<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">hoots there are really rare valuable things. Then we have an<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">eternity of regret because in our brief meat-world life, we<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">could have had all the hoots we wanted, but gave them away for<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">nothing, never caring for them at all. That would be a hoot.</span></font></blockquote><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>Ha ha. Okay, my turn to play annoying pedant: Of course, this presumes that, if there is a Hell, atheists necessarily go there. Some Buddhists have a conception of Hell and you don't go there for being an atheist. (And, IIRC, it's not eternal either. It's sort of like a time out for really, really bad karma.) After all, going to Hell might not be caused at all by being an atheist. (It could even be arbitrary.) <br><br>By the way, John raises an interesting issue here that kind of ties in with the diamond/water paradox of economics. Presuming he supervenes on his cells -- there's that physicalist premise again :) -- then he might not give a hoot about any particular one of them, but all of them together might be another matter. This is similar to how one might value one diamond more than a glass of water now, but not all the diamonds in the world over all the water in the world now.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Dan</span></div><style><!--
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