Chuck's Right

Chuck the Eater is a big proponent of personal integrity and critical thinking. Our lunch discussions regularly traverse the political and religious landscape, touching on the profound and unprofound questions of the day.

Here's an archtypical Chuck quote:

Your life after your death is probably just like your life before you were born.

Perfect and concise. Today, he sent me the more wordy version today, apparently the "Quote of the Day" from Contegrity.com -- so, I thought I would share:

"The whole conversation about death is a boogeyman, and there's not much real interest in it. If you are in time, then what happens when you run out of time, or what happens when you die? But instead of that being an interesting question or a very great mystery, it is seen as an affront.

It's fascinating that people bother themselves some with what will happen when they die. Nobody bothers themselves about where they were before they were born. It was the same place. Why isn't that a big dilemma? Where were you? How did you get here? Where did you come from? That could be pretty interesting. But that's not as much of an affront."

Ken Anbender from The Fulfillment of Time
(Special Program, January 2004)

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