M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[Joseph Tracy]

 I personally doubt that people were much more skeptical in the past. Just another story we tell ourselves as moderns wanting  a golden past. And frequently these tales of afterlife  we repeat endlessly because we can't really know and know there is only one way to find out. And then there are the endless textual, tribal, linguistic and organizational disputes within every faith. 
On Jan 15, 2015, at 6:50 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> p. 22....Mason, from the ongoing grief of the loss of his wife, after
> suggesting to Dixon that they
> should investigate the Learned Dog for Metempsychosis reasons, at
> least p.19....after asking why are there still not
> Oracles...Gate--Ways to Futurity.....
> 
> must ask tLD if he has a soul...
> 
> I would say, off the top, Mason is sorta-obsessed with whether Death
> is The End or there is an After, wouldn't you? [tangential: we might
> remember the von Braun quote in GR. More heretically tangential: we
> might remember TRP's lifelong remembering of his great pal, Richard
> F.?]
> 
> The doubts of a religious man. There was a time in the West when no
> (religious) person would even have such doubts. Dante's time did not,
> right Monte? and TRP fave Henry Adams said about the same of the time
> of building Mont-Saint Michel and Chartes.
> Becker suggests that Acquinas's massive Summa came about as his and
> his time's edifice against doubt...
> 
> But, doubtlessly, religious doubt at least was ushered in with the
> Enlightenment.
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