GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 15:50, Scott Badger wrote:
> 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"...

It's also hard to imagine what paradise would be like. What'd there be to do?

P.