Greetings Mike,
mikenz66 wrote:What does not having an annihilationist view mean?
Not believing in a self that is annihilated at death.
mikenz66 wrote:Does it imply some sort of rebirth?
No.
Brahmajala Sutta wrote:"There are, bhikkhus, some recluses and brahmins who are speculators about the future, who hold settled views about the future, and who on forty-four grounds assert various conceptual theorems referring to the future. And owing to what, with reference to what, do these honorable recluses and brahmins frame their speculations?
The common theme in all these speculations are that they are soul-theories, and their inherent error arises from them being speculative soul-theories.
Brahmajala Sutta wrote:"Whatever recluses or brahmins, bhikkhus, are speculators about the past or speculators about the future or speculators about the past and the future together, hold settled views about the past and the future, and assert various conceptual theorems referring to the past and the future, all of them do so on these sixty-two grounds or on a certain one of them. Outside of these there is none. This, bhikkhus, the Tathāgata understands."
Therefore, there are no speculations about post-mortem fate that are not speculative soul-theories, according to the Buddha.
So as per comments made to you previously...
Goofaholix wrote:Annihalation means simply annihalation.
retrofuturist wrote:In practice, this means not holding a materialist-annihilationist view. Is there more to it than that?
... and the Blessed One himself...
MN 48 wrote:If a monk is absorbed in speculation about the other world, then his mind is enthralled
mikenz66 wrote:Could we discuss what that would mean in practice?
It means not being given to speculative soul theories.
Metta,
Retro.
"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."