What do I want, anyway?

[bbyrd009]

Yes, exactly. Only I'm coming to see "too strong a statement" as "not strong enough by half." I would argue that if your consciousness just ended, you would be um, dead right, lol, but also making this verse a lie. Therefore, your consciousness does not end. Our perceptions here are the height of irrelevance, mine included, which you might note you have yet to hear.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Yes, exactly. Only I'm coming to see "too strong a statement" as "not strong enough by half." I would argue that if your consciousness just ended, you would be um, dead right, lol, but also making this verse a lie. Therefore, your consciousness does not end. Our perceptions here are the height of irrelevance, mine included, which you might note you have yet to hear.

That verse isn't necessarily a lie, if there is no consciousness after death. There could be other ways a day of someone's death is better than the day of his birth. Some people, anyway. So yeah, if the verse has to apply to everyone, I suppose it would require an afterlife of some kind. (If it's true, as it is in your opinion.)