Humanity's Stuggle With Death.

and pretty maids all in a row.

• hearing a baby laugh.
• the taste of a tomato sandwich made from home baked egg bread and a Better Boy tomato picked fresh from the vine.
• the smell of a newly cut meadow.
• the sound a bike's tires make on the road right after a rain.
• lying on a hilside watching shooting stars.

What makes you think only humans are different or special? Many other species show similar traits. Elephants mourn and revere lost ones, many birds mate for life. What makes you think we're special?

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Nope, they are the things that last. No one living will ever know. It may be why you believe there is an afterlife, but you cannot know it. Not only is that a very egotistical point of view, it makes GOD out to be an absolutely cruel unthinking bastard. Do you mean the billions and billions of critters that have existed were created just for your enjoyment? How sad and pitiful. How can you devalue life that much? While that might be a nice thing to believe, the reasons you've given so far have been pathetic.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

First Charley, your answer has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. Second, while you might believe that, you cannot KNOW that. Third, why do you devalue life so much?I'm sorry but I just don't see how anyone can hold such a tiny, limiting view of either life or GOD. How pitiful.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

That is because for the most part Why is not the provence of science when why is used within the context of meaning or purpose. Those are individual subjective questions, certainly reasonable ones to speculate upon in religion or philosophy. I don't see why the questions must be asked. Some may wish to ask them, but there is no absolute need for them to be asked or answered beyond an individuals desires.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Again Charley, what does that have to do with anything being discussed? And your point is? Charley, it doesn't really matter. My beliefs about GOD have nothing to do with life as we see it and live it. They are beliefs, not facts.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Fantastic. A belief unquestioned is weak and worthless.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Well none of us will know the answer to that until after we're dead.So would there be any chance that the reward might also be found in either the satisfaction of helping someone else or in the greater pleasure or comfort lived by the individual?

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

getting along with your sister's boyfriends.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

The biggest will relate to resources.What resources to you think might lead to social complexity?

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion