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Stephen Fry

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

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The Importance of Ritual and Ceremony

Ritual and ceremony are very important parts of being human. And I think they express in a visual dramatic metaphorical form, much of what it is to be alive. Without the eschatology without the idea that as the Greeks knew anybody who said definitively what happens to a human being after they're dead is either a fool or a liar. Because there's never been one who's been coming back to tell the story. We now know just a gateway to a very hot, hot world. Have you ever been?

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