the second law
"ta-ra! ta-ra!" goes the big bang breakfast! "hurrah! hurrah!" goes the second law of thermodynamics!
tissue of lies
If there is only the material, then what is it that vanishes when death comes, where does it go, and where does it come from?
suspiciously inauspicious
Nobody could have accused him of being a bad person, but chose instead to wait for a more auspicious time.
repulsive opposites
Frequently, he failed to step forward in times of need. Infrequently, he succeeded in falling backward in times of surplus.
in the balance
Reality scales up as well as down, inside as well as outside, now as well as then, how as well as why.
imaginary friends
How can we know that (or when) we don't know something? If we don't know it, we can't know that.
truly dreadful
Somewhere in the dusty, padlocked, forbidden chambers of your innermost mind, is a place to which you will never return. Or, out of fear or ignorance, have never entered. In that place is the knowledge that you dread above all else.
bridge between worlds
Language is one of the bridges between at least one material and several immaterial worlds, none of which are near Bermuda.
reincarnation: do the math
Is the number of dead people greater than, less than or equal to the number of people alive? The question is relevant to the issue of whether there are always enough vacant bodies available to let.