Bem…o que dizer? I see dead people?
“Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance
of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that
most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any
kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality. Selling
bonds, for instance, or promoting finance-companies, seems
not to assort with the idea of an existence which cannot be
imagined to take any account of money or credits. Certain
other of our present activities might be imagined as going on
indefinitely, such as poetry, music, pure mathematics, or philosophy.
One can easily imagine an immortal Homer or Beethoven;
one cannot possibly imagine an immortal Henry Ford or
John D. Rockefeller. Probably belief cannot transcend experience.
If we believe that death is the end of us, very likely it is because we have never had any experience of a kind of life
that in any sort of common sense we could think was worth being
immortal; and we know we have had no such experience.
As far as spiritual activity is concerned, most of us who represent
this present age are so dead while we live that it seems
the most natural thing in the world to assume that we shall
stay dead when we die.“
JOURNEYMAN, 86-7
