Then the true name for religion, ' Fat said, 'is death.'' The secret name, ' I agreed. 'You got it. Jesus died; Asklepios died - they killed Mani worse than they killef jesus, but nobody even cares; nobody even remembers. They killed the Catharist in southern France by the tens of thousands. In the Thirty Years War, hundreds of people died. Protestants and Catholics - manual slaughter. Death is the real name for it; not God, not the Savior, not love - death. Kevin is rights about his cat. It's all there in his dead cat. The Great Judge can't answer Kevin: "Why did my cat die?" Answer: "Damned i I knoe." There is no answer; there is only a dead animal that just wanted to cross the street. We're all animals that want to cross the street only something mows us down half-way across that we never saw. Go ask Kevin. "Your cat was stupid." "Who made the cat? Why did he make the cat stupid? Did the cat learn by being killed, and if so, what did he learn? Did Sherri learn anything from dying of cancer? did gloria learn anything-'' Okay, enough, ' Fat said.' Kevin is right, ' I said. 'Go out and get laid.'' By who? they're all dead.' I said, 'There's more. Still alive. Lay one of them before she dies or you die or somebody dies, some person or animal. You said it yourself: the universe is irrational because the mind behind it is irrational. You are irrational and you know it. We all are and we know it, on some level. I'd write a book about it but no one would believe a group of human being could be as irrational as we are, as we've acted.Philip K. Dick
About This Quote
The quotes above were taken from a book called "The Contagious Character", one of the best books I have ever read. The book has been written in such a way that I was able to understand each and every word, which is rare for me to do. The author of this book, David James Keating, has also written other books like "The Secret Of The Magic Fountain" and many others. The reason why I liked the book so much is because it made me understand the meaning of life.
He has experienced things in his life and he said that the meaning of life is to do everything we can to make the world a better place to live in. Many people just waste their time trying to be happy in this world but they never achieve their goal because they don't do anything about it. They just waste their time doing things that don't matter at all and they never achieve anything.
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