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Well it is important, really, if you consider that a large group of people believed in it widely for centuries, and it wasn't until the 20th century that a significant number of those people started to question it and discard it entirely. It has sociohistorical value.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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