NPPF - Canto Two Synopsis

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 1 09:24:17 CDT 2003


There is something strange about Shade's decision to be a founding member of
IPH (Canto Three) after he's reach this crucial conclusion below in Canto Two. 
IPH is all about the silly speculations about the hereafter which he
acknowledges are so venerable to ridicule.  His description of IPH is also
ridiculing.  So why did he take on this task of organizing IPH after reaching
the insight below?

--- From the Synopsis:
> He then reasons about death and resurrection to reach logical absurdities. 
And he reaches a wonderful conclusion via a big “if”:  The hereafter, if it
exists, is most likely beyond our imaginations ability to perceive.  Therefore
he decides not to join in the “vulgar laughter” (note the use of that word
again) and lists a few hereafters that those vulgarians laugh at, and concludes
that these possibilities seem silly only because “we do not make it seem
sufficiently unlikely,” a thought related to his conclusion that imagining the
hereafter is likely beyond our ability.

BTW,  Canto Three is presently without a host.  Would someone care to take on
that task?

David Morris

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