If someone's brain is damaged, and they lose some functionality...

[originalpckelly]

yet they survive, what happens?

Does part of them go to heaven while the other part is left behind on earth?

[sakabatou]

1. ...

[Kurska]

2. If you lose an eyeball, is it up in heaven waiting for you when you die?

Hehe.

[originalpckelly]

3. But what happens if you have multiple personalities?

What if one commits a sin and never repents for it, and the others are faithful?

Do they all go to hell because of what one of them did?

And if this isn't true, then isn't the following true:
What if one is an atheist, one's a Buddhist and one's a Christian? Wouldn't that mean you'd die and nothing happens, be re-incarnated, and live forever all at the same time?

But there's more:
What if you are placed in a box that is airtight, a can of toxic gas is in there too, and it will be released, but only if a particle decays while you're in the box. In the box you're either dead or alive, but to the people outside, aren't you both dead and alive? You know, like a quantum superposition of the two?

So, does this mean that you can be in heaven and on Earth at the same time?

[TygrBright]

4. They run for public office on a GOP ticket. n/t

[Initech]

5. Win.

:rofl:

[Ninjaneer]

17. /thread. n/t

[enki23]

6. like the wise guy said, you can never step on the same dog turd twice

we're all changing all the time. the me a second from now isn't the me now, or the one that started writing. after a few billion years, that really, *really* isn't me. happy, or not. that's somebody else enjoying heaven. not me. ditto for suffering in hell. not me. someone else would suffer for my sins. but don't feel *too* badly for him. someone else will be along to take his place before you know it. same goes for me retiring at 65, for that matter, but happy fairy tales can at least provide something to set your sundial by. or so i suppose.

and when one comes along to think "hey wait, what about that unmoved mover you have in you that occasionally puts its finger on the balance of your decision making apparatus?" that wannabe puppeteer parasite, should it exist, sure as *hell* isn't me. let it suffer the loving graces of its loving god, as they both will.

[Scuba]

7. Relax everybody and enjoy your trips. The acid will wear off in a few hours.

[originalpckelly]

10. I am being perfectly serious.

It is an attempt to get the followers of theology of any kind to think critically about their religious beliefs. The happenings I have described are the product of a modern world. Most of the time, without modern medical intervention, these people would have died in the past. No one could conceive at the time these religious books were written that these things existed in the future. But an omnipotent being should be able to see the future, and should have been able to issue guidance on them. After all, it saw fit to issue guidance, at least by their claims, in the past didn't it? Why stop now?

Either the old guidance should have contained provisions about these situations, or there should be a newer version of such documents.

The mere fact that these things have happened, means, in an of itself, that these beliefs were probably not created by a god or gods, but by people in the past with a limited knowledge of the future.

[Scuba]

12. That's nice. Now just sit back and enjoy the colors.

[okasha]

13. Maybe an omnipotent being thought you were smart enough

to figure it out for yourself.

Oh, well.

[skepticscott]

8. This is one of those imaginary issues

that Serious Modern Theologians just love to spill ink about...best to leave it to them.

[originalpckelly]

9. The point is very plain and simple:

I am attempting to demonstrate the impossibility of their arguments basing them upon the happenings of the modern world.

If God or Gods is/are omnipotent, then why didn't it/they give us reliable moral guidance about such phenomenon?

Only a person living a couple thousand years ago would have no idea that this sort of thing was possible.

Either the omnipotent being they claim exists should issue further guidance, or they should stop this and admit there is no such thing, at the very least, in the way they see it.

[enki23]

15. they can't take it seriously, because the whole mushy idea is incomprehensible to them too

that's why there's not even an attempt at an answer. just glib nothings. there's a time for those, granted, like when some creote thinks its a devastating question to ask "but why are there still monkeys?". the difference is, we have an answer for that question, stupid as it is. but when a person knows damned well that one has no idea how to answer a question, the mockery isn't real. it's just cover for a particularly uncomfortable sort of ignorance.

[MineralMan]

11. Can't answer. The problem is your choices. Since

many of us don't believe that any such place as heaven exists, the option doesn't either.

Stuff happens. People cope with the results, as best they can.

[Pterodactyl]

14. No, the injured person is still fully alive, fully human, and fully here on earth!

That's my Christian view!

[RagAss]

16. "From the beginning, not a thing exists." - Hui Neng