<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Christianity as a death cult? I think of it more as a fear cult. Fear of not fitting in in society. Fear of Hell (though I know many Christians don't believe in it). Is a Christian any worse than a person who believes in ghosts? There are more believers there than in Christianity. How many people have a sound mind? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 5:53 PM Gadersd via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Gadersd</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:gadersd@gmail.com" target="_blank">gadersd@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 2:53 PM<br>Subject: Re: [ExI] (no subject)<br>To: <efc@swisscows.email><br></div><br><br><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><blockquote type="cite">I always find these immortality discussions very strange. For me, it is<br>not about immortality per se, but about choice. Being able to decide<br>yourself when you had enough.</blockquote><div><br></div>I must object to the use of the term “immortality.” If the probability per year of death is for all time greater than some number, ε, then with certainty all beings will <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">eventually</span> perish. There will always be a nonzero probability of accidental death that I think can be bounded by some number <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">ε. In any case there is the heat death to end the stragglers.</span><div><font color="#000000"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000">I agree that choice is essential. However, if given the choice to die or live another day I do not see any person of sound mind who is free of extreme distress choosing the former. I do not view adherence to death cults, such as Christianity, as being part of a sound mind.<br></font><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 16, 2023, at 2:24 PM, <a href="mailto:efc@swisscows.email" target="_blank">efc@swisscows.email</a> wrote:</div><br><div><div><br><br>On Thu, 15 Jun 2023, Gadersd via extropy-chat wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">ask about why we want to live a long time.<br></blockquote><br>That seems an odd thing to have to explain. Life is good, no?<br></blockquote><br>I always find these immortality discussions very strange. For me, it is<br>not about immortality per se, but about choice. Being able to decide<br>yourself when you had enough.<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div>
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