A Case for Eternity

Over the course of recorded history, five hundred and eighty-seven million souls have been wiped out by clinically insane warriors. These lives were lost in an endless cycle of wars as people fought over territory, resources, wealth and power.

As soon as early humans could communicate complex ideas, they adopted a terrifying baseline assumption that physical death permanently terminates our experience of life.

We can trace the psychological root of this violence back to the birth of symbolic language.