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Originally Posted by Beebs
I thought DH's question was actually a pretty useful rhetorical device; not all questions imply the asker's beliefs.
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Agreed, but recent and elsewhere DH has spoken of how he believes/wants to hope in an afterlife and it just doesn't seem he was doing it purely rhetorically/playing devils advocate. I think it's pretty clear from his posting that he has an emotional investment in this and is more on the afterlife/supernatural side of death than the atheist/nothingless side.
Not that there's anything wrong with it. I just really, really, really don't like it when people talk about certain things then claim they're just being rhetorical or curious or playing a thought-exercise. It is very rare when they are completely separate from the ideas in question, and when they are it appears to be very apparent by the way they post.