Talk:Life After God
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[edit] Short stories?
Erm, while the book contains stories, there's an overarching central narrative, and the stories told form part of, and illustrate, this narrative. It's really not a short story collection. Last time I read anyway. Anyone mind if I edit? --Plumbago 19:58, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
- You seem to be approaching it too abstractly. This is a short story collection, whether you'd like to think so or not. Your interpretation does not count as fact unless you can cite it from a reference. -- LGagnon 20:56, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Doh! It's a fair cop. I read the book about 8 years ago and since then Alzheimer's Disease appears to have set in. ;) It is a collection of short stories, but I seemed to be conflating them into a novel in my memory because of the similar tone and themes throughout. My apologies. --Plumbago 13:37, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I would like to comment (actually criticize) the idea behind Life Without God. It is basically a beautiful story: the narrator wants meaning in his life. This is normal. What Coupland misses, and I think it is important, is that people can have meaning in their lives without a supreme being. I would refer anyone to the works of Bertram Russell or Paul Kurtz. Also, consider Buddists: they are spiritual but a devine being is not central, or even important, to their spirituality. I suspect human beings have a natural spiritualiy as part of the 'hardware' of our brains and the specific details of one's spirtuality depends on culture (the 'software'.) This is similar to language. I strongly suspect if we get to such a point of lack of belief we will find plenty of meaning in nature, acts of selfless charity, love of friends and family, and art. I think such meaning is better than meaning from a belief in a diety for whom there is no objective evidence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gimpydoc (talk • contribs) 16:47, August 26, 2007 (UTC)
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