Talk:Life After God

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)

Yah this is from someone else. I don't really think you're supposed to criticize works on Wikipedia, even in the discussion section. You should go on a reviewing website or something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.177.182.30 (talk) 23:51, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

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Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Not moved . Alpha_Quadrant ^(talk) 22:03, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

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Life After God → Life after God – If we look at the book cover File:Lifeaftergod.jpg we see the A is a lowercase, so it should be 'after'. Only the L and G get capitalized. Y12J (talk) 09:35, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose per Wikipedia's own capitalisation rules - prepositions longer than 4 letters should be capitalised. 86.146.221.44 (talk) 14:08, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose; the orthography used by the cover artist is irrelevant. Powers ^T 20:51, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose per 81 and Powers. Jenks24 (talk) 11:54, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.