Episode #442 from 45:55
Mortality and religion
One of the tragic things about life is that it ends. How often do you think about your death? Are you afraid of it? I have a friend who's very, very successful, and he's in his 80s, mid 80s, and he asked me that exact same question. I turned it around and I said, "Well, what about you?" He said, "I think about it every minute of every day." And then a week later, he called me to tell me something. And he starts off the conversation by going, "Tick tock, tick tock." This is dark person in a sense, but it is what it is. If you're religious, you have I think a better feeling toward it. You're supposed to go to heaven, ideally, not hell, but you're supposed to go to heaven if you're good. I think our country's missing a lot of religion. I think it really was a much better place with religion. It was almost a guide. To a certain extent it was a guide. You want to be good to people. Without religion there are no guardrails. I'd love to see us get back to religion, more religion in this country.
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One of the tragic things about life is that it ends. How often do you think about your death? Are you afraid of it? I have a friend who's very, very successful, and he's in his 80s, mid 80s, and he asked me that exact same question. I turned it around and I said, "Well, what about you?" He said, "I think about it every minute of every day." And then a week later, he called me to tell me something. And he starts off the conversation by going, "Tick tock, tick tock." This is dark person in a sense, but it is what it is. If you're religious, you have I think a better feeling toward it. You're supposed to go to heaven, ideally, not hell, but you're supposed to go to heaven if you're good. I think our country's missing a lot of religion. I think it really was a much better place with religion. It was almost a guide. To a certain extent it was a guide. You want to be good to people. Without religion there are no guardrails. I'd love to see us get back to religion, more religion in this country.