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Nobody gets a pass for anything when they die. Everyone will be judged and held accountable.
Right. Nobody gets a pass for anything when they die, but part two of your statement needs fixing...
No one will be judged and held accountable for anything either. We'll die and all that matters after that will matter only to those still living. Putin and all the rest of us when we die will be finished business. Or so all the lack of evidence to the contrary seems to make most obvious.
One could argue that he did! Although fiction as a genre was in its infancy during Dante's time, La Vita Nuova could be loosely said to contain elements of it.
His works can be categorized under multiple genres.
The specific work I was referring to in the above post however is Divine Comedy, which is not fiction, but epic poetry.
Right. Nobody gets a pass for anything when they die, but part two of your statement needs fixing...
No one will be judged and held accountable for anything either. We'll die and all that matters after that will matter only to those still living. Putin and all the rest of us when we die will be finished business. Or so all the lack of evidence to the contrary seems to make most obvious.
I disagree that there is a lack of evidence to the contrary.
I disagree that there is a lack of evidence to the contrary.
You're doing it again...
Expressing opinion without justification. Time for me to sign off now, but between now and when I visit this forum again, perhaps you can share some of this evidence that suggests otherwise what happens to us after we die? Please. I've been considering all there is to consider along these lines for a long time now. Maybe I've missed something. Do tell.
Expressing opinion without justification. Time for me to sign off now, but between now and when I visit this forum again, perhaps you can share some of this evidence about what happens to us after we die? Maybe I've missed something...
One could argue that he did! Although fiction as a genre was in its infancy during Dante's time, La Vita Nuova could be loosely said to contain elements of it.
His works can be categorized under multiple genres.
The specific work I was referring to in the above post however is Divine Comedy, which is not fiction, but epic poetry.
Some of the Norse /Icelandic sagas and Beowolf were also epic poetry hence must be as truthful as Dante.
Expressing opinion without justification. Time for me to sign off now, but between now and when I visit this forum again, perhaps you can share some of this evidence that suggests otherwise what happens to us after we die? Please. I've been considering all there is to consider along these lines for a long time now. Maybe I've missed something. Do tell.
I don't have a problem explaining why I believe something if I'm asked. I'm confused why some of you think that. Does every post of mine have to be a detailed essay backing up and justifying my every statement? I don't expect that of you, why do you expect that of me?
We make general statements, and we go deeper when prompted to. That's how discussion generally works.
As for the evidence I was referring to...
The most powerful and profound piece of evidence that there is life after bodily death is the Resurrection of Christ.
I would also consider the fact that belief in an afterlife is ubiquitous to humanity in all times and places as evidence. Like I said, faith itself is the evidence of the unseen. Throughout history in all times and places people have reported some type of contact with the dead. This also is ubiquitous.
I have read Dante. Are you saying that Dante and not the Bible is the reference to how Putin will be judge?
I think we can infer things from both.
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I fail to understand why you do not answer questions directly.
If I don't answer a question directly, maybe it's because I don't have a direct answer. In spite of what some posters here may think, I don't in fact know everything.
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