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Experiencing the Divine
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RE: Experiencing the Divine
August 1, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Our brain can do strange things when it grapples with the fact that it will cease to exist. My uneducated guess would be that his talking to the dead was one of these strange things.

Was his conversion around the same time as his illness?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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Experiencing the Divine

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Experiencing the Divine - by KnockEmOuttt - July 31, 2012 at 10:45 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by Minimalist - July 31, 2012 at 11:20 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by padraic - July 31, 2012 at 11:33 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by genkaus - July 31, 2012 at 11:48 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by KnockEmOuttt - August 1, 2012 at 12:04 am
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by Darth - August 1, 2012 at 12:18 am
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by padraic - August 1, 2012 at 1:52 am
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by KnockEmOuttt - August 1, 2012 at 1:54 am
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by MysticKnight - August 1, 2012 at 12:48 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by KnockEmOuttt - August 1, 2012 at 1:50 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by Faith No More - August 1, 2012 at 2:11 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by KnockEmOuttt - August 1, 2012 at 3:46 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by Faith No More - August 1, 2012 at 3:55 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by KnockEmOuttt - August 1, 2012 at 4:09 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by Jackalope - August 1, 2012 at 8:21 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by The Grand Nudger - August 1, 2012 at 3:59 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by padraic - August 1, 2012 at 8:23 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by Reforged - August 1, 2012 at 8:23 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by KnockEmOuttt - August 1, 2012 at 8:47 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by Reforged - August 1, 2012 at 8:54 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by KnockEmOuttt - August 1, 2012 at 8:59 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by Reforged - August 1, 2012 at 9:26 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by Minimalist - August 1, 2012 at 9:42 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by Whateverist - August 1, 2012 at 9:45 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by pgrimes15 - August 12, 2012 at 7:21 am
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by catfish - August 12, 2012 at 4:52 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by padraic - August 12, 2012 at 7:23 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by pgrimes15 - August 13, 2012 at 10:52 am
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by KichigaiNeko - August 13, 2012 at 10:53 am
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by FemmeRealism - August 13, 2012 at 1:28 pm
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by padraic - August 14, 2012 at 1:43 am
RE: Experiencing the Divine - by pgrimes15 - August 14, 2012 at 4:10 am

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