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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: Grandk who wrote (19762)	3/24/2005 7:02:27 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) of 28931

"You have embraced death so completely and totally that you no longer fear it. You are simply waiting for it." It is definitely waiting for me! What I have embraced (and I have tried over and over again to make clear) is LIFE. Death can come at any moment. The flesh of the mind (our trillions of neurons) is our "life". When the mind is gone, our remaining life is meaningless. At death, the neurons die along with all the other tissue. The body then decomposes over time and enters the soil where the elements are used to nourish the growth of new life such as tomatoes or lichen or asparagus. As Lucretius said: "Life goes on; it is the lives, the lives, that die..."

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