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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--
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lax if you will.
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l realize however
that there's a great temptation...
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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.
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l don't believe l'm trying
to create for myself...
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a deliberate self-reassuring process.
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lt just seems intuitively right.
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l've never had to work very hard
of convincing myself of a hereafter.
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After all don't you think it seems
infinitely more plausible...
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than its opposite: oblivion?
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HelloJessie it's me.
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l wonder could indulge me for a moment?
l'm in a bit of a state.
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Well l was driving along...
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when l suddenly remembered
that story about Schoenberg.
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Schoenberg.
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Remember he was obsessed
with numerology numbers and so forth.
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So much so that when he turned 65...
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he was terrified
that he was going to die...
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because his age was divisible by 1 3.
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So he consulted an astrologer friend
who assured him that he would survive...
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until the next time
the numbers conspired against him.
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"Well great" he thought
"another 1 3 years.
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l'll be fine until l'm 7 8."
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Eleven years later however
when he was 7 6...
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the astrologer wrote back to warn him
that it's not only numbers...
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that are divisible by 1 3
that he ought to watch out for...
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but also those whose digits
add up to 1 3.
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For example 7 6.