What happens when we "kick the bucket"?

**hamish** · 21/12/2005, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by d f x-

.......Cremation, embalming, funeral directors, wakes, memorial services, ashes, rigor mortis, death, no heaven, no God...

but happy Christmas anyway Hamish..

What an awful depressing list

And a Happy Christmas to you, amigo.

**Macy** · 22/12/2005, 7:55 AM

Originally Posted by Green Army Girl

Well they wouldnt have been cannonised by the Church (i think that what it is called) we have no proof they made it to heaven but because of wat i believe i believe they did, when it comes down to it its just faith in your own religion.

That's just what you believe - I believe they were just good blokes, so I have the right to celebrate their days by getting hammered in the pub. It's what they would've wanted, or so I believe anyway.

**Hither green** · 22/12/2005, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by Macy

Eh no. You could just think they were good blokes while they were on earth.

To any non-believer though how can St Patrick be a good bloke? I don�t think he went round healing the sick or feeding the poor. He went round converting people to Christianity. To a non-believer that would be bad wouldn�t it? Unless you�re approaching his contribution from having a snake-phobia?

**Peadar** · 22/12/2005, 1:33 PM

Originally Posted by Hither green

To any non-believer though how can St Patrick be a good bloke?

St. Patrick invented Guinness, Shamrock and leprechauns.
He's a champion of the Irish tourist industry.
Great bloke, if you ask me!

**Macy** · 22/12/2005, 1:37 PM

Originally Posted by Hither green

To any non-believer though how can St Patrick be a good bloke? I don�t think he went round healing the sick or feeding the poor. He went round converting people to Christianity. To a non-believer that would be bad wouldn�t it? Unless you�re approaching his contribution from having a snake-phobia?

No, but Irish Tour 434 was a great album.

**the 12 th man** · 22/12/2005, 3:31 PM

Originally Posted by sirhamish

We're all doomed, doomed, I say.

Steady on there "Fraser"

,The Lord said the first shall be last and vice versa...................

**tricky_colour** · 22/12/2005, 4:23 PM

We are made out of inanimate atoms, none of which is living or alive,
thus they do not contain you soul, it is elsewhere, so therefore you can never die. What happens to you body is immaterial it is still the same pile of atoms and was never alive in the first place.

Merry Xmas

**sligoman** · 22/12/2005, 4:27 PM

Originally Posted by Peadar

St. Patrick invented Guinness, Shamrock and leprechauns.
He's a champion of the Irish tourist industry.
Great bloke, if you ask me!

And some of us get a day off every March 17th cos of him. Top man!

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**hamish** · 22/12/2005, 7:18 PM

Originally Posted by Peadar

St. Patrick invented Guinness, Shamrock and leprechauns.
He's a champion of the Irish tourist industry.
Great bloke, if you ask me!

Could have done a better job on that club he founded in Inchicore though.

**hamish** · 22/12/2005, 7:19 PM

Originally Posted by the 12 th man

Steady on there "Fraser"

,The Lord said "vice"

I'm up for that.

**Partizan** · 22/12/2005, 7:53 PM

What happened to the 72 virgins?

**hamish** · 22/12/2005, 8:00 PM

Originally Posted by Partizan

What happened to the 72 virgins?

Sorry Partizan, first come first served.

**Marked Man** · 22/12/2005, 9:49 PM

[QUOTE=tricky_colour]We are made out of inanimate atoms, none of which is living or alive,
thus they do not contain you soul, it is elsewhere,

QUOTE]

Where is this 'elsewhere' of which you speak?

**the 12 th man** · 23/12/2005, 6:43 AM

Originally Posted by sirhamish

I'm up for that.

I'll be looking for "an assist" at least on that gag

s h,btw is it not "first served first come" regarding the virgins

**Gareth** · 23/12/2005, 9:32 AM

Not sure if it has been said already but I read at the start about how can you explain the universe? Its far easier to state something and believe than say its not true. I can't prove that there isn't a planet of walking chocolate bars but its highly improbable. Likewise when you die, I personally would be surprised if a heaven in the way we talk of existed. I am open to surprise but its as cocky to suggest the universe was made for us as is it for someone to say a forest was made for the ants.

Your into the issue of do we have a soul. If you have an entire body transplant, one bit at a time and the only remaining original part was your brain, would you still be the same personality etc? Probably yes bar the emotional trauma of having a body transplant

**Block G Raptor** · 23/12/2005, 9:46 AM

I've always believed in An afterlife butwhat I could never work out was if its supposed to be a utopian paradise how can you have everthing you ever wanted if the people you leave behind are not there i for one know that I could not enjoy "Heaven" without my mother and my Daughter

**Block G Raptor** · 23/12/2005, 9:50 AM

Originally Posted by Macy

That's just what you believe - I believe they were just good blokes, so I have the right to celebrate their days by getting hammered in the pub. It's what they would've wanted, or so I believe anyway.

Dont Beleive in saints and such like
I Think Paddy's day should be renamed Ireland Day like they Have Austrailia Day coz at the end of the day its a celebration of our Irishness and not really a religious celebration ie do you go to mass on paddy's day

**Hither green** · 23/12/2005, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Block G Raptor

Dont Beleive in saints and such like I Think Paddy's day should be renamed Ireland Day like they Have Austrailia Day coz at the end of the day its a celebration of our Irishness and not really a religious celebration ie do you go to mass on paddy's day

Great let's all become cultureless drones like the Australians and Americans.

Personally I don't go to mass on St Pats, but I know lots of people who celebrate it by taking a break from their Lenten abstinence.