My wife sang in the York Minster choir as a girl. At 13, she “had a revelatory non-God experience on a hospital trolley after a car crash and has been atheist ever since.”
As a lifelong atheist, I was sad and angry at the tourists’ disrespect.https://vajrayananow.wordpress.com/author/
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You could go into a library and read something written fifty years earlier and it would be just as meaningful as it was then. It would fit into an unchanging framework of “what is known” and “how things are.”
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By historical accident, I was the last person educated in the modern world. I still remember the *feeling* of modernity, but even I can’t recover its meaningfulness.
When I die, its last trace dies with me.
[my mother’s copy of of _The Wonder That Was India_, 1953.]pic.twitter.com/P83B5xnNRE
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