And it may well be that coherence, synthesis, causality, and sequential, lawful change, which Einstein says is embodied in the entire physical universe--it may well be that all of these manifestations of lawfulness continue after our death. Why would it be that causality goes right up to death and suddenly the universe becomes a-causal and molecules start bouncing around randomly? Actually--if you think there is something as absolute and final as death is often construed to be--then you are being non-scientific, since the essence of the scientific world-view is continuity of causality. Everything is caused by something before it. Everything that exists will cause something after it. ... [Past wars] have not gone away. They will actually never go away as long as there are people who continue to suffer from the residues of violence.
--Paul Fleischman, An Ancient Path (free e-book)
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