Posted by sigismund on September 6, 2013, at 1:59:34
In reply to Re: L'Shanah Tovah! » Phil, posted by johnLA on September 6, 2013, at 1:13:04
I spent the afternoon thinking that the virtues of dying are underestimated, though there is something to be said for the Jewish (is it?) idea 'choose life'. Which I may have done, being still here. I am comforted by Ecclesiastes (or anyone) saying "Again I saw all the oppressions that are practised under the sun. And behold, there was no one to comfort them! On the side of the oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them. And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive; but better than both is he who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun."
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