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   Book review: "After Lives - A Guide to H   
   24 Oct 09 17:51:57   
   
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   From: fritz@spamexpire-200910.rodent.frell.theremailer.net   
      
   "O you who are still on earth and pass this stone, you who   
   love life and hate death, make offerings of fruit, fowl and   
   meats to Osiris on behalf of the child buried here."   
      
   This anonymous utterance from beyond the grave, inscribed   
   on an Egyptian funeral stone some time between 2050 B.C.   
   and 1650 B.C., is one of the more haunting testimonies   
   included in "After Lives: A Guide to Heaven Hell, and   
   Purgatory" (Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/AfterLives ). British   
   scholar John Casey's wide-ranging study shows the many ways   
   in which mankind has tried to make sense of life after   
   death..   
      
   Continued: http://xrl.us/AfterLivesReview   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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