There has never been a race of mankind that didn\u2019t believe in some kind of future life; whether it\u2019s reuniting with ancestors as some Native Americans believe, or the sensual abode of bliss of the Muslim. How do you explain that? <\/p>\n
Long before any evidence for this worldwide belief had been gathered, Cicero said, \u2018In everything the consent of all nations is to be accounted the law of nature, and to resist it is to resist the voice of God.\u2019 On the night Socrates died, Crito asked him, \u2018In what way would you have us bury you?\u2019 He replied, \u2018In any way that you like, only you must get hold of me, and take care that I do not walk away from you.\u2019 In his Phaedo<\/i>, Plato presented powerful arguments in favour of immortality. <\/p>\n
Others argued for it, too; great thinkers like Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Jefferson, and the German poet Heinrich Heine. Alfred Lord Tennyson\u2019s most famous poem goes like this: \u2018For tho\u2019 from out our bourne of Time and Place the flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face when I have crossed the bar.\u2019 <\/p>\n
And Byron writes, \u2018I feel my immortality o\u2019ersweep all pains, all tears, all fears, and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears this truth\u2014\u201cThou liv\u2019st forever!\u201d\u2019 <\/p>\n
All these great minds shared the conviction of the psalmist: \u2018I will behold Your face; when I awake, Your presence will satisfy me.\u2019<\/i> When you think about it, \u2018good night\u2019 here just means \u2018good morning\u2019 over there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There has never been a race of mankind that didn\u2019t believe in some kind of future life; whether it\u2019s reuniting with ancestors as some Native Americans believe, or the sensual abode of bliss of the Muslim. How do you explain that? Long before any evidence for this worldwide belief had been gathered, Cicero said, \u2018In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}