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Yes, it is either/or. There is either "more than this" or there isn't.


That's quite different from what you said, however, which is that the dead simply either cease to be, or else enter a supernatural realm from which they cannot possibly care about the events of this one. "More than this" does not limit possibilities to "either/or."

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But there can be no hope for consensus when you have 10,000+ interested parties who are tangled in abstract thinking.


Please restate your definition of "abstract thinking."

By the way, I'm an interested pary, and I'm completely unhappy with the design.

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There is no correct way to organize the list.


Hence, my suggestion that it should not be static, but interactive and evolving.

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This woman would be able to join the desired consensus if she recognized that her wish to group the victims in one way rather than list them randomly or alphabetically or by height or age, is a concept without significance except in her mind.


Reasoning worthy of a Cugel! Despite the grisly subject matter, you made me laugh with this comment, David.

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The dead didn't rise from the ground at Gettysburg because Lincoln's speech was too short -- or because the other guy's was way too long.


Again, you speak of the dead as if you have intimate understanding of their condition.