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Jack Mahoney's avatar

It's a good point, and arguably it's why religion has been such a big business because it allows you to pretend you won't die, instead passing from this consciousness to the next one, even if the next one is centrally heated.

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Barry Friedman's avatar

Yeah, I agree. Christianity and Islam have much better stories over, say, Judaism.

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Bruce K.'s avatar

Xtianity and Judaism have many identical stories in Volume #1, but both share an utter absence of humor. There isn't a single joke or remotely light moment in either tome. They're oppressively humorless. Who needs that?

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heydave56's avatar

Bracing thoughts

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Tamara Piety's avatar

Well aren’t you just the little ray of sunshine! Not to contradict the great Hemon (who I’d never heard of until now), I have all too vividly imagined just that very thing, far too often in my life, from a very young age. Not every moment of every day of course. And maybe that is all he means, that it is not continuous. And it’s true. Some mornings I come to consciousness from a dream that was not that, and am not thinking of that, and then I read my “friend’s” morning thought for the day and WHAM! I am back in it. Better than coffee for making you want to either bound out of bed, eager to assert your aliveness (for now) or to pull the covers over your head! Geez! A right little Miss Sunshine YOU are! I thought the balmy breezes, abundant Coke Zero and cod and port and whatever in your new environs would have cheered you up a bit! I guess it is good to know you are you, wherever you plant yourself. Heh heh.

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Barry Friedman's avatar

I was trying to be that ray of sunshine, but I just can't give my heart to cod and it has soured me on the mother of all dinners here. Yes, what did you call me again -- Sad Music Boy? Still laughing over that. I should tell you right now: Sylvia Plath is coming up. Get another blanket.

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Tamara Piety's avatar

Oy! The blanket is going over my head right now!

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Frankie Two Bits's avatar

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee

And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”

― Robert Frost

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Barry Friedman's avatar

A great line that. Thanks.

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Kent Anderson's avatar

He ain't fibbin'.

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Barry Friedman's avatar

I didn't think so either

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Bruce K.'s avatar

Boy Scout motto: "Be prepared!"

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