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Originally Posted by Grey Matter
... I think you're misunderstanding me.
I am saying no one is wrong about their ideas on the afterlife. Which is true. Since... we are living and not dead we cannot share conclusions about the after life. People believing the world was flat is irrelevant as the world being flat was able to not only be seen, but studied, and further study proved that it isn't flat?
Sorry I really don't know what you're getting at with this?? I am literally saying religious people, non-religious people, people who are indifferent, people who believe in different forms of heaven, are not and cannot be wrong as we can not take apart the afterlife while living.
I said nothing about ideas on or "beliefs" with the living, concerning the living reality.
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What I'm saying is that applying the term "no one is wrong about their ideas on afterlife" implies that everyone's thinking is right & that is just NOT possible. It's the terminology you are using that I have an issue with. Ideas are neither wrong nor right....they just are ideas & thoughts........
What I was saying with the earth being flat analogy is that at the time of death......everyone gets their proof of what the reality of what afterlife is truly is like......& may very well be proved to them that the thinking they held onto was just as wrong as those who thought the world was flat or as right as those who did think the world was round just as those with other types of thinking will have the proof as to just how close their thoughts were to what reality is. No, it doesn't provide proof for everyone as the farther studies & observations of the earth did to prove it round.....but each person gets their proof at their own individual time as to how close or far their ideas were to reality. There will be some ideas about afterlife that have been just as far off from reality as those ideas of the people who believed the world was flat.
I hope this makes it clearer what I was trying to express.