I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
I regard Jesus, like the Buddha, as a figure with the power to shape our lives.
Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.
I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.
Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.
Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.