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  3. From: dab@ism.isc.com (Dave Butterfield)
  4. Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism,talk.philosophy.misc
  5. Subject: Re: Immortality
  6. Date: 21 Nov 1992 01:35:47 GMT
  7. Organization: x
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  9. Message-ID: <1ek3pjINNp5r@smaug.West.Sun.COM>
  10. References: <dpn2.29.720591052@po.CWRU.Edu> <nyikos.720906159@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <zlsiida.456@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: change
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  13. zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
  14. =You have to come very close to death at 
  15. =least once, preferably several times, before you actually start to live as 
  16. =if there is a time limit on your personal survival.  You won't even 
  17. =understand this point until....well until you understand it really.
  18. =A few really nasty car crashes or diseases may help you get there, or maybe 
  19. =having a friend die in the next room at the age of 20 would do it.
  20.  
  21. In other words:  "it's not the age, it's the milage."
  22.  
  23. -- 
  24.     Truth is an evaluation of a statement within a context.
  25.