afterlife

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13cdaad	The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.	afterlife calm common-sense cradle darkness death eternity existence life life-after-death light man	Vladimir Nabokov
3b54aa5	As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating the most absurd propositions with faces solemn as stupidity touched by fear. It is a part of their business to malign and vilify the , , , , Tyndalls, , , , and Drapers, and to bow with uncovered heads before the murderers, adulterers, and persecutors of the world. They are, for the most part, engaged in poisoning the minds of the young, prejudicing children against science, teaching the astronomy and geology of the bible, and inducing all to desert the sublime standard of reason.	adulterers afterlife alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt astronomy charles-darwin children-science darwin david-hume draper ernst-haeckel fear geology haeckel herbert-spencer humboldt hume john-draper john-tyndall john-william-draper knowledge mind murderers paine persecutors poison power prejudice propositions reason spencer stupidity sublime theologian theologians theology thomas-paine tyndall vilify voltaire wilhelm-humboldt wilhelm-von-humboldt world	Robert G. Ingersoll
df47493	"When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off in the course of our brief wrestle. It looked so pathetic there by itself without an owner, it looked so lonely, it looked so empty. Something made me pick it up arid take it in to her. Like when someone's going away, you help them on with their coat, or their jackboots, or whatever it is they need for going away. I didn't try to put it back on her, I just set it down there beside her close at hand. You're going to need this, I said to her in my mind. You're starting on a long walk. You're going to keep walking from now on, looking for your home. I stopped and wondered for a minute if that was what happened to all of us when we crossed over. Just keep walking, keep on walking, with no ahead and no in-back-of; tramps, vagrants in eternity. With our last hope and horizon - death - already taken away.	after-death after-life afterlife death dying heaven limbo twentieth-century	Cornell Woolrich
1107d30	But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more significant than it is. His sickness was the sickness of our age. We want so much not to be extinguished at the end that we will go to any length to make conjuror-tricks for one another simply to obscure the bitter, secret knowledge that it is our fate not to be.	afterlife death mystery mysticism priscus religion resurrection	Gore Vidal

13cdaad

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.

afterlife calm common-sense cradle darkness death eternity existence life life-after-death light man

Vladimir Nabokov

3b54aa5

As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating the most absurd propositions with faces solemn as stupidity touched by fear. It is a part of their business to malign and vilify the , , , , Tyndalls, , , , and Drapers, and to bow with uncovered heads before the murderers, adulterers, and persecutors of the world. They are, for the most part, engaged in poisoning the minds of the young, prejudicing children against science, teaching the astronomy and geology of the bible, and inducing all to desert the sublime standard of reason.

adulterers afterlife alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt astronomy charles-darwin children-science darwin david-hume draper ernst-haeckel fear geology haeckel herbert-spencer humboldt hume john-draper john-tyndall john-william-draper knowledge mind murderers paine persecutors poison power prejudice propositions reason spencer stupidity sublime theologian theologians theology thomas-paine tyndall vilify voltaire wilhelm-humboldt wilhelm-von-humboldt world

Robert G. Ingersoll

df47493

"When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off in the course of our brief wrestle. It looked so pathetic there by itself without an owner, it looked so lonely, it looked so empty. Something made me pick it up arid take it in to her. Like when someone's going away, you help them on with their coat, or their jackboots, or whatever it is they need for going away. I didn't try to put it back on her, I just set it down there beside her close at hand. You're going to need this, I said to her in my mind. You're starting on a long walk. You're going to keep walking from now on, looking for your home. I stopped and wondered for a minute if that was what happened to all of us when we crossed over. Just keep walking, keep on walking, with no ahead and no in-back-of; tramps, vagrants in eternity. With our last hope and horizon - death - already taken away.

after-death after-life afterlife death dying heaven limbo twentieth-century

Cornell Woolrich

1107d30

But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more significant than it is. His sickness was the sickness of our age. We want so much not to be extinguished at the end that we will go to any length to make conjuror-tricks for one another simply to obscure the bitter, secret knowledge that it is our fate not to be.

afterlife death mystery mysticism priscus religion resurrection

Gore Vidal