Isn't that a science fiction writer? Not that it discounts the opinion, they ponder a lot. The same dude who said, reality is what exists now, and will not go away anytime soon. Just seems like a person trying to sound smart, without saying much, while using a lot of words. And I do not agree. We do not bury people because of any fear, we do it because it is religion and tradition, and by not doing so, it spread disease. And people did not want to watch predatory animals eat up their loved ones, or let them decay and be eaten by worms in plain sightI do not believe in ghosts of any kind. I remember CS Lewis arguing that the idea of ghosts is proof of the Fall:
"Our feeling about the dead is equally odd. It is idle to say that we dislike corpses because we are afraid of ghosts. You might say with equal truth that we fear ghosts because we dislike corpses—for the ghost owes much of its horror to the associated ideas of pallor, decay, coffins, shrouds, and worms. In reality we hate the division which makes possible the conception of either corpse or ghost. Because the thing ought not to be divided, each of the halves into which it falls by division is detestable. The explanations which Naturalism gives both of bodily shame and of our feeling about the dead are not satisfactory. It refers us to primitive taboos and superstitions—as if these themselves were not obviously results of the thing to be explained. But once accept the Christian doctrine that man was originally a unity and that the present division is unnatural, and all the phenomena fall into place."--from MIRACLES
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