GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)

Scott Badger lupine at ncia.net
Mon Apr 21 14:50:23 CDT 2003


Paul:
> All this is predicated on the belief that there ever WAS a more perfect
> time. The environment might have been cleaner once, but is there any
> reason to think times were ever better overall. Fewer wars, more
> freedom. Less suffering? I'm very doubtful.

Me too. Given time, etc. I think a case can be made that even those humans
considered more "in tune" with their environment, Native Americans, say,
would have left their mark....

> If we were to define freedom as the ability to improve well being and
> happiness, then a Paradise would by definition have no use for freedom.

Maybe I've been driving around with "Live free or die" on my license plate
too long, but I just can't imagine, "no use for freedom"...

Scott Badger





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