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From: jbarnett@nrtc.northrop.com (Jeff Barnett)
Subject: Re: materialism bites the dust
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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 00:08:55 GMT
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In article <333AC111.67C4@perham.k12.ispn.net>, Heather Pollard <wallre98@perham.k12.ispn.net> writes:
|> .................................................  This is totally
|> unacceptable-get a life folks, after we die, what's it going to matter
|> how many things we had???????

Since a large number of folks, probably including me, don't think
that anything matters after we die -- there is no afterlife --
I ask you why should anything matter now?  Note, whether or not
I can convince you, or vice versa, that it should or should not
matter isn't really the issue.  I don't believe in anything after
here and i can state as a FACT that what happens here DOES matter
to me.  In other words, I don't find your argument compelling
since I can look into myself and find an instance, hence a model,
in which it is false.

Jeff Barnett
