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she'd had exactly the same dream.
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Now at that time
there was no hint of measles...
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no epidemic no worry of any kind...
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so the dream certainly
couldn't have been affected...
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by any external common suggestion.
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And yet four days later
l got the measles.
1:15:25
Very interesting.
Tell me continuing...
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what do you believe
regarding afterlife?
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Well l was brought up
a Presbyterian...
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though l stopped being a churchgoer...
1:15:38
at about the age of 1 8.
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l've always felt
tremendously strongly...
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that...
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there is indeed a hereafter...
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with which we must all reckon...
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in light of which we must
live our lives...
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and there is that inevitability
of the transformation of the spirit.
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As a consequence...
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l find all here-and-now philosophies
quite repellent--
1:16:12
lax if you will.
1:16:14
l realize however
that there's a great temptation...
1:16:19
to formulate a comfortable theory
about eternal life...
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so as to reconcile oneself
to the inevitability of death.
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But l'd like to think
that's not what l'm doing.
1:16:31
l don't believe l'm trying
to create for myself...
1:16:34
a deliberate self-reassuring process.
1:16:39
lt just seems intuitively right.
1:16:42
l've never had to work very hard
of convincing myself of a hereafter.
1:16:48
After all don't you think it seems
infinitely more plausible...
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than its opposite: oblivion?