Re: A Not Nice Clarification
Phil, vhawk -
Just face it: you guys are too smart, too successful, and just generally too good-at-life to understand religion. Let's hope that never changes. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
<font color="red">DS</font> -
Yep, most people would maximize net happiness by never being born. But 2400 years and still Sophocles says it best: "Oh, wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and misery, why do you compel me to tell you what it would be most expedient for you not to hear? What is the best of all is utterly beyond your reach: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you is---to die soon." (Silenus in Oedipus at Colonus.)
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