“Usually understood” is a pretty tricky thing to pin down. The popular conceptions of these ideas are definitely not the same as the Catholics’ conception, nor do the popular conceptions do justice to the amount of uncertainty that the Church freely admits to having. People seem to have a lot of trouble with words from a different literary genre than the one they’re used to: they tend to either assume that words from different genre must either be designating entirely different things or the exact same thing, rather than differing but complementary and comparable designators of a shared underlying reality. So when I talk about “angels and demons” and “transhuman intelligences” as if they were very similar things people seem to suspect that some sort of word game or trickery is afoot wherein connotations will be unfairly snuck in. Given this epistemic situation I can’t really honestly answer your question in a way that doesn’t make me look transparently stupid or willfully obscurantist. I will say that when I think about resurrection I think about it in terms of superintellgience and quantum information theory rather than in terms of God and Revelations.
PS: Typed on iPhone keyboard, sorry for all the mistakes.
Could you elaborate? Do you use the terms “resurrection” and “hell” as they are usually understood?
“Usually understood” is a pretty tricky thing to pin down. The popular conceptions of these ideas are definitely not the same as the Catholics’ conception, nor do the popular conceptions do justice to the amount of uncertainty that the Church freely admits to having. People seem to have a lot of trouble with words from a different literary genre than the one they’re used to: they tend to either assume that words from different genre must either be designating entirely different things or the exact same thing, rather than differing but complementary and comparable designators of a shared underlying reality. So when I talk about “angels and demons” and “transhuman intelligences” as if they were very similar things people seem to suspect that some sort of word game or trickery is afoot wherein connotations will be unfairly snuck in. Given this epistemic situation I can’t really honestly answer your question in a way that doesn’t make me look transparently stupid or willfully obscurantist. I will say that when I think about resurrection I think about it in terms of superintellgience and quantum information theory rather than in terms of God and Revelations.
PS: Typed on iPhone keyboard, sorry for all the mistakes.