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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (29951)	6/25/1999 2:43:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

I think you ought to consider actually growing that metaphorical beard. You are comfortable with the image, IMHO, and it would probably suit you. Chris has a beard, and I like it. It all depends on the guy, some men look better clean-shaven.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (29951)	6/25/1999 2:45:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

My turn to speculate... There is a notion of the afterlife that appeals to me, although I do not believe in it. It falls into the category of "wouldn't it be nice if..." First of all, why any afterlife at all? Because I like the idea of continuation of consciousness. What good is a Nirvana if it is the same thing as Nothingness? And I like the idea that justice will eventually prevail -- a left-over from my early Catholic days, I guess. I don't think it fair that all the very good people I have known, the unique people, but not-famous people, will be forgotten, while the infamous people , the Genghiz Khans, the Stalins, the Hitlers, etc., will be remembered forever -- at least, here on earth. For me, it is all about memory. I want everybody, and everything, to be remembered. And it is about understanding. I want us all to understand everything and everybody, what it was all about, what we were all about. At the same time, I do NOT like the traditional Christian view of immortality -- the view that we will continue existing as individuals in the afterlife. The real curse of human existence, in my opinion, is that we are all locked into our own egos. Who really wants to continue that into eternity?? Not I, at any rate. No, I prefer the notion of us all continuing to live as individual thoughts/memories -- in a single brain. The brain will think us, and we will think each other. We will be each other. We will be mutually totally comprehensible, inter-penetrating thoughts, blended parts of a whole. Sort of a cosmic continued learning process! I know that the general concept of people, and the world, and the universe, as being Thoughts in the Mind of God is not an original one. But I am not sure that those who have advanced the concept understood it in quite the same way as I do. I realize that this notion of immortality will not appeal to everybody. I once laid it out to my youngest son, and he looked at me with some disgust. "You're just a snoop," he said. "You just want to know what everybody else is thinking." I guess so...<g> Joan