Christopher West

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2,230 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 7 Sep

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Joy wills eternity.

Uh Nietzsche was wrong about so many things, but he got that right.

uh joy longs to to to go on and the fact that joy does not go on in this life, joy comes and it goes, uh is one of the great sadnesses of life.

And the cry of the heart, the the longing of the heart.

And this is why we we all

Beneath whatever we do to comfort ourselves about death, way, way down in there, way down in there.

Is this agony that we feel about death because

We're we're not made for it.

We're made for something that lasts forever.

You called it in your book a cosmic obscenity.

What did I call a cosmic obsc oh yes, yes, it is a it is a cosmic obscenity.

Uh because

were made for a a a a life that lasts forever.

And the cosmic obscenity is precisely what is the definition of death?

The rupture of the body and the soul.

Right.

That very definition of death is

To rupture body and soul.

And a culture of death was

It's precisely a culture that

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