{"id":237,"date":"2016-04-27T21:21:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T19:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2016-04-27T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T19:22:39","slug":"is-that-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Is that the end?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Is<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If we want to stay alive, we need to eat and drink. If we stop, we will soon die. We will die even if we
\ndon\u2019t stop, but not so soon. The body dies but does what\u2019s inside the body (let me call that \u201cthe soul\u201d)
\ndie too? Does it stop being or does it continue to exist somewhere else? There is no proof of that; and
\nprobably there can\u2019t be. For if it continues to exist somewhere else it is no longer part of this world and
\ncan no longer be perceived by the means of this world.<\/p>\n

I had a daughter who died when she was ten months old. My mother died when she was 59 and my
\nfather \u2012 when he was 79. People die at different ages, having lived different lives, being themselves
\ndifferent. But they all start and end their lives in the same way and no one can change that. We would
\nchange it if we could. I, for example, would like to change the way women give birth to their children
\nand make it painless. I would also like to make all the bad things like illness, violence, exploitation,
\ndisaster, etc. disappear.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t change those, but there is something I can change: my own reaction to what happens to me; the
\nway I perceive things and what I do as a result of this perception. And this, done day after day, adds up
\nto what constitutes my life making it what it is and me what I am.<\/p>\n

My body, though, can\u2019t do that: it can\u2019t change anything it does. If it changes it, it becomes ill or dies.<\/p>\n

Hence, there is a very basic difference between the body and the soul: the body has no choice but to
\nfunction the way it is made to function, whereas the soul can choose what to do and how to do it. I can
\nchoose whether to work or not and how much and intensively to do that. The one who chooses not to
\nwork can also choose the way how to do that, i.e. he may live like a beggar or like a thief. This is in case
\nwe both have equal opportunities for work. If we don\u2019t, then other people\u2019s wrong choices have caused
\nthe emergence of the problem with unemployment. Because if there is so much work around that needs
\nto be done and the banks are full of money that can be used to pay for it, I see no other reason why this
\nshould not happen.<\/p>\n

If the body and the soul are so basically different in life, why shouldn\u2019t they be so in death as well?<\/p>\n

Lil
\n11\/04\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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