The End of Life

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It's good to know that a major source of laughs will not be suddenly snuffed out! Humor is theraputic.

This model of brain development explains a lot more than Pat Robertson, of course. For one thing it explains me. And Kootch. Furthermore it explains why there are few 'converts' among the elderly, and many 'converts' among the twenty-thirty-somethings, and why 'old people' are said to be 'fixed in their ways.' We are! But we're not so fixed that we can't achieve a certain universal state of relative perfection called 'wisdom.' This verity is succintly expressed in the saying that, 'There is no fool like an old fool:' Some of us miss.

For example, there is the enduring caricature of the old woman who spends the last stages of her life praying. She attends church every morning not just Sunday morning. My mother was one of those old women. She was expressing the most enduring aspect of her conditioning in the face of impending death. She wasn't alone in this predelection, which seems to be universal. For example there is a quotation from BSR which I will quote in the next entry, illustrating how we ultimately face the end of life: