RobinRohan has died

Condolences to his family and loved ones.

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This reminds us all, young and old that at the most life is like a vapor, here now and soon gone as the Bible says. it behooves Biblicalists to ever search for Biblical truth as God intended and for non-Biblicalists to consider all aspects of it's merits before rejecting it's message of hope/assurance regarding the resurrection of the dead.

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I know you probably mean well, but for goodness sake, buzsaw, give it a rest.

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When people die, it does seem incredibly shocking and awful, the thought that somebody can end.

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While I gree that RR's passing was sudden, and I feel bad about it, I feel truly bad for his family and the people who really knew and loved him.

I don't feel especially bad for him. He doesn't exist anymore.

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A person with his or her own unique personality. With a whole lifetime of projects and goals and achievements.

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Funny though, that RR himself would say that none of that means anything at all.

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I'm not saying this is a time to get your bible out, but personally, I can't believe that a person just ends and that's that.

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I can. But mostly I don't think about it at all. There's no use, because it's an utterly unknowable answer while we live.

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What a horrible world, if every victim never sees paradise, what an awful accident this universe would be. My hopes rest on victims having their reward, and the evil having theirs!! Is that so wrong?

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No, it is not wrong, mike.

It's very human, in fact.

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Contrary to what others are saying here, I believe it's extremely important to think about what happens after death -- as opposed to focusing simply on trying to have the best possible time in this life (as if that would have any value in the end whether you were conscious or not after death).

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We're not talking about the value of living life to the fullest after death.

The whole point of living life to the fullest is that we are living life to the fullest, right now.

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People make such dogmatic statements about ceasing to exist after death as if it were a known fact, something that couldn't possibly be known so certainly.

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You make equally dogmatic statements about the afterlife, and about a great many more things as if they are known facts, and none of those things can't possibly be known at all, let alone "certainly".

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Since it can't be known so certainly, how can it be a waste of time trying to find out?

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Because it is an unknowable thing, by definition.

Er

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If God chose to reveal the truth about it, which he did, then it is not unknowable by definition at all.

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What God?