I have no idea, to tell you the truth. This is pretty heavy, metaphysical
stuff. I don't believe such a thing myself (and I hope it didn't sound like I
was putting words in the Professor's mouth in that post), but my belief doesn't
really matter in the end; either it is true or it isn't. I suppose you'd have
to believe in the idea of immortal souls in the first place in order to answer
this at all. I do, but that hardly clears up this tricky issue for me. Is that
the answer you wanted? I'm a little confused by what you
asked...
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“And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear.”
—J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
“ ‘Yes. Of course. It always was like this. All horrors have followed the same course, getting worse and worse and forcing you into a kind of bottle-neck till, at the very moment you thought you must be crushed, behold! you were out of the narrows and all was suddenly well. The extraction hurt more and more and then the tooth was out. The dream became a nightmare and then you woke. You die and die and then you are beyond death. How could I ever have doubted it?’ ”
—C. S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
Numenorean
To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?
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