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Tuesday
I'll try to take some
pictures to illustrate this sometime, or I might even put the video
on site if I ever get to be able to afford the convertor. Until then
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Evening Call - 01/02/94
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View down
on Zen Garden from window
Move to
Necropolis
Pull back
to show gallery interior
Wide view
of "Death" display
Close up
of Taj Mahal
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From the windows of St.
Mungo's Museum, looking out across the Zen Garden, you get a
great view of the Necropolis. Quite apt for a museum dedicated
to religion, the arena in which people usually discuss one of
life's most interesting questions - "Is death really the
end of life?". Images reminding us of death abound inside
the museum, even a souvenir of that most famous of muslim
tombs, the Taj Mahal.
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Move around "Death" display
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Life after death, like the
existence of God, is one of those things that you just can't
prove. It takes faith. A lot of people say "I don't
believe in things that I can't prove." But you can't
prove that there's No Afterlife any more than you can prove
that there is. You choose what you believe either way, and
that choice is an Act of Faith which shapes your life
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Holocaust
picture
X-fade to Zen Garden |
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All around us we see the Creation in balance - except, it
would seem, for humankind. The difference between us and the
rest of creation is that ability to choose. We have free will.
We can choose right or wrong. But it makes no sense without an
Afterlife that brings justice to our system, balancing out a
world of human injustice, repaying those who choose evil in
this world with the pain of an endless fire, and repaying our
choice of good with the pleasures of a Paradise - which
muslims call The Garden. |
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