Re: Pre-existent "entities" ruining our lives???

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:18:37 GMT, Dutch <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>David wrote:
>
>>     How do you think anything to do with pre-existence
>> prevents existing beings from benefitting from their own
>> existence
>
>"benefiting from existence" is a circular and meaningless expression.

    That doesn't prevent existing beings from benefitting from their own
existence.

>If something is a benefit to me, that implies necessarily that its 
>absence would be a loss to me. But if my existence were absent that 
>could not be a loss to me, because there would be no me to lose anything.

    That doesn't prevent existing beings from benefitting from their own
existence.

>The only way that the concept "benefit from existence" can begin to make 
>sense semantically is if one assumes a pre-existent state which is less 
>desirable than existence.

    That doesn't prevent existing beings from benefitting from their own
existence.

>You do not deserve all the attempts people have made over the years to 
>help you grasp this.

    So far you haven't even come close to explaining how you think
pre-existent "entities" or anything else about pre-existence prevents 
existing beings from benefitting from their own existence. That means
that in all the attempts people have made over the years COMBINED
we still have absolutely nothing to consider. NOTHING.