Fear of death
136The Lost Empire
19 Sep 2022
45:12¶ 157
“The media and the government pushed that. I don’t know if you remember the expression “Better Red than dead” – better Marxist than dead…”
45:47¶ 158
“We’re seeing that again in our generation with the whole Covid thing. A lot of what happened was that people were afraid to die.…”
46:44¶ 163
“No one is getting out of this world alive, but you know what? My generation thought they would. Mine was a generation that was…”
25Resurrection and the Cult of the Dead
21 Jun 2020
38:55¶ 116
“Our world, this generation particularly, is scared to death of death. They don’t want to talk about it. We introduce all kinds of euphemisms.…”
39:40¶ 117
“If they could be sure that no matter how they live now, the afterlife would be a sweet and wonderful place, maybe, but they…”
39:55¶ 118
“If you were to do that, to suggest building coffins, you would be accused of all kinds of weird things, but what a wonderful…”
3Chaos, Order, and Origins
19 Jan 2020
28:03¶ 76
“I remember a TV show called It Takes a Thief. Nobody needs to go look it up, but there’s a scene where the hero,…”
28:40¶ 77
“Socrates was honest enough to say, “I go to death, you to life. Who knows which is better?” because he really didn’t know. He…”
29:01¶ 78
“Our pagan world looks at death mostly with fear. They look at the end to the universe as a horrible terrible thing. To them,…”