NPPF Shade's meditations on life after death

[jbor]

on 11/10/03 4:06 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:

> The message is most simply that such musings are beyond our human
> ability, and thus (as he says earlier) our efforts to imagine an afterlife
> fail by their very lack of implausibility.  A fantastic state beyond our
> ability to imagine COULD very well await us, so don't join the scoffers.

Yes, the italicised "if" is important. Shade is setting up a hypothetical
scenario which is analogous to the question posed about when resurrection
occurs. 

                Yet *if* prior to life we had
        Been able to imagine life, what mad,
        Impossible, unutterably weird,
        Wonderful nonsense it might have appeared!      220

He's equating "life" to "[w]onderful nonsense" from an imagined (and
impossible) perspective outside of life. It's got nothing at all to do with
foetuses.

best