PhanFic Journal Entry 4

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Hume's theory is basically an articulate summary of thoughts I have often had myself. In considering "miraculous" events of many religions, I often wonder how anyone can honestly believe they took place. (Gerry: It sounds like you're a skeptic like Hume, all right.) For example, the only people to have ever risen from the grave were those who were mistakenly though to be dead when in fact, they were merely unconscious. (Gerry: Right--rising from the grave seems to have stopped with more accurate medicine.) It is interesting to note that once this was realized, there was a period in history in which graves of those who could afford it were equipped with a bell in the event that the "corpse" should awaken.

Gerry's notes: People are still very hung up on this question, as we talked about. We really don't handle an intermediate space between life and death well.