Time. Time. The human mind is capable of realising that it is immense, but not near capable of knowing its immensity. The human lifetime is as a grain of sand in the Sahara in the immensity of time;as is the existence of humanity; as is the existence of the Earth itself; as is the existence of the Milky Way Galaxy; as is the universe. How many billions of "big bangs" have occurred? We have no right ---and no legitimate reason--- to say "only one". How many events, in this enormous time scale, are bound to recur, over and over? When consciousness finally departs in death, time ceases to exist for the individual concerned, and any return to this consciousness must occur seemingly without any passage of time. The new consciousness in those circumstances, can contain no knowledge, no memory. A "new" life has begun. Who can scoff with complete conviction at the notion that this "new" life has been lived over, and over?
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