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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

gain from him do not actually exist, and that the deceptive beau-
ty and attractions around him in fact consist of illusions. There is
therefore no point in his thirsting for things that exist in this world
or expending energy on any personal gains. He lives in a passing,
transitory world and knows that his true life will begin after this
one.
The writer Remez Sasson has this to say:

It is like a movie show. A person watching a movie gets so involved
with the characters and with what happens on the screen. He may
become happy or sad with the heroes, gets depressed, shouts or
laughs. If at a particular moment he decides to stop watching the
screen and manages to withdraw his attention from the movie, he
gets snapped out of the illusion the movie creates. The projecting

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