Re: Why human colonization may be irrelevant

Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> John Savard wrote:
>
> >I think you're joking here. This is a perfectly natural question for a
> >child to ask, even at, perhaps, age eight, never mind ten.
>
> Oh, the question is reasonable, but look at the words he said he used:
>
> >[...]
> >"If the soul is something that is not me, why would I care what happens to
> >it? I mean, if it's just some spiritual bag of stuff that will leave my
> >body when I die, and my awareness just goes away when I die, why should I
> >care what happens to this soul?"
>
> You ever run into a ten year old that uses turns of phrase like that?

Um...yes. Lots of home-schooled kids of my acquaintence have rather
advanced conversational styles. A couple of my cousins were talking
like that at age *eight*.
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