Irving Finkel: prediction

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…So isn’t that a way to lessen the impact of mortality? I don’t know, because you know that everyone’s going to die. I think the real tragedy would be, is if we’re not supposed to. That would be the tragedy. But every single person is going to die. So all relationships have this finite clause in them. So if you’re very fond of somebody or you love somebody and they die, it’s kind of infantile to whine about it ever after. Because what did you think was gonna happen? Either you or them. You know, I always see it like that. I don’t feel grief when people die. It is infantile, but I gotta tell you something about human beings. We’re all kind of infantile all the way through from, you know, we don’t stop being infantile after we’re infants. It’s one thing to know it, you know, theoretically, and it’s another thing to know it know it. Like this thing ends, this ride ends.…

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