The Fun of Dying Quotes

“So while Christians believe in an afterlife, our mental picture of life after death is full of clouds and thrones and hell and fire and the terror of God’s judgment. Even believing that a heaven exists seems to do little to ease our fear of death.”
― Roberta Grimes, The Fun of Dying

“Abundant afterlife evidence tells us that we are here to learn to forgive completely and learn to love others universally.”
― Roberta Grimes, The Fun of Dying

“am not writing for scientists. I only note in passing that for scientific gatekeepers to continue to enforce atheism as a fundamental dogma is as counterproductive now as it once was for scientists stuck in Catholic orthodoxy to insist against evidence that the earth was flat. Truth cannot be suppressed forever, so the academic dam is certain to break. And when it does, the revelations soon to follow about who and what and where we are will change all humanity for the better. It isn’t only scientific oxen that we will be goring here, but some religious folks will be incensed. I am sorry about that. If you prefer to believe whatever it is that your own religion teaches, all I ask is that you be open-minded whenever your own death starts to happen. As you will see, one way to give yourself unnecessary grief is to insist on a certain kind of afterlife. But otherwise, the good news is that the afterlife is not a guessing-game. Catholics and Baptists both get into heaven. And Jews and Buddhists. And everybody else.”
― Roberta Grimes, The Fun of Dying

“Matter is not objectively real. Matter is composed of atoms, and atoms are almost entirely empty space. I recall reading once that if the White House were an atomic nucleus, its closest orbiting electron could be as far away as Denver, and there would be literally nothing between them. At one time physicists believed that at least those subatomic particles were solid, but the more closely they studied them, the more physicists realized that subatomic particles are more empty space circumscribed by tinier orbiting particles which themselves are empty space. It begins to look as if the tiniest particles of all are just vortices of energy. Bruce Lipton, quantum biologist and author of The Biology of Belief (2005), tells us that if you could put a subatomic camera inside an atom, there would be nothing for it to photograph because matter is just whirling energy. Nothing is solid. Everything is waves. Of course, observation appears to force each wave to become whatever the observer seeks – either a particle of matter or a wave of energy – but since the tiniest particles are just energy vortices,”
― Roberta Grimes, The Fun of Dying