Yes, coming from Dean, the line makes sense, which is why as a misconception coming from Dean, I could go along with it. Dean has said a lot of things I disagree with, but coming from Dean, they're completely understandable, and I actually get kind of excited because a lot of his questions and doubts are very real.
And I do see his point and agree with Dean that there is a right and a wrong and that people are what's important.
But the presentation, and the fact that this is the second time that Heaven/Paradise on Earth (which gets into a whole 'nother conversation of the New Earth as spoken of in the Bible) as an existence without individuality is problematic for me. It's the way Zach and Co. are going about making it happen that's the issue--forcing Armageddon with complete disregard for humanity. And the more than implication that God is absent from the equation.
I'm probably not being very coherent, I know. As I've said before, when I start talking about such things that are so important to me and carry such weighty implications in RL and do come down to some serious blacks and whites and rights and wrongs . . . It's difficult for me to articulate. I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense.
Thanks, though, for trying to talk me down off the ledge. I'm tickled that so many of my f-list have come forward to try to give me another viewpoint. What it comes down to, I guess, is that I don't trust Kripke to do the same.
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Date: 2009-05-19 11:54 pm (UTC)And I do see his point and agree with Dean that there is a right and a wrong and that people are what's important.
But the presentation, and the fact that this is the second time that Heaven/Paradise on Earth (which gets into a whole 'nother conversation of the New Earth as spoken of in the Bible) as an existence without individuality is problematic for me. It's the way Zach and Co. are going about making it happen that's the issue--forcing Armageddon with complete disregard for humanity. And the more than implication that God is absent from the equation.
I'm probably not being very coherent, I know. As I've said before, when I start talking about such things that are so important to me and carry such weighty implications in RL and do come down to some serious blacks and whites and rights and wrongs . . . It's difficult for me to articulate. I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense.
Thanks, though, for trying to talk me down off the ledge. I'm tickled that so many of my f-list have come forward to try to give me another viewpoint. What it comes down to, I guess, is that I don't trust Kripke to do the same.