Hypochondria
Some people tell me they are not hypchondrical. Why not? We all end up dead, don't we? Who wants die? Not me. Not now.
posted by Ben Wattenberg at 11:28 AM
Friday, August 04, 2006
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- Name: Ben Wattenberg
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Ben J. Wattenberg is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the moderator of the weekly PBS television program Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg, which is now being expanded to include a new one hour program Think Talk . He has served as a presidential speechwriter and advisor for president Lyndon Johnson. Ben also served as an aide and speech-writer to "Scoop" Jackson and VP Hubert Humphrey. He is currently working on a forthcoming book Tales of a Neo-Con ,an accompanying volume of selected posts from this blog, and highlights from the best of Think Tank.
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3 Comments:
It's admirable that you admit to this. There are a lot of phony stoics out there who claim to have made peace with death. But the most authentic human cry, I think, is with the poet Dylan Thomas, who wailed: "Do not go gentle into that good night/ Old age should rage and rave at close of day/ Rage, rage, against the dying of the light..." Or something like that.
Then again, there are those of us who have a certainty that death is no the end.
You got it. But do the Jihadists believe that? And maybe Evangelicals also.
Yeah, but there are a lot of reasonable, loving people who believe in eternal life AND are intellectuals, like the current pope. No?
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