AKe:

I admire the directness and clarity of your perspective.

I think the kind of faith Joe has described --in some measure -- is a discover prompted by the very large discovery that there are more things on heaven and earth than in one's philosophy.   It is true, we have been doing Life & Death for millennia, but that in no way reduces the torrents of force and feeling and cognitive chaos that descend on one while doing it.

And discovering, for example, whether we have been doing it over and over again, or just many of us once each, can be a stressful question.

And uncovering the layers of obfuscation that make it so hard to see the deeps of the universe with clarity, is another distressing task.

A little faith is a fine thing.

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