Death available on Amazon!

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My Book of DEATH is now out on Amazon – just the eBook for the mo. Paperback and Hardback will shortly follow!

The Book of DEATH eBook : Goodwin, Opher: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

An atheist explores death from all angles.
Originally titled ‘The Death Diaries’ (20 years in the writing) – but that never happened (not yet!)
Humour deployed, science explained, disbelief ladled with syrup, rituals ceremoniously elaborated on, myths ridiculed, personal condition revealed, psychology delved into, cultures touched on, views expressed, taboos bulldozed, honesty put to the forefront, fears probed and mysteries demystified.
My forthright views delivered with openness and maximum offense!
Everything you might want to know or think about death.
Death! You’ve got to love it!
Now get on with life!

Poetry – Reasons

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Reasons

It the face of eternity

It is only human to seek reasons.

When there are none to be found

We can always invent them.

Our brain has evolved

To interpret patterns,

Find answers,

Seek solutions.

When faced with infinity

We are unable to see it

As anything other

Than finity.

We invent beginnings

Ends and continuations

Where none

Exist.

Our limitations

Dictate our dogma

And create a range

Of irrational beliefs.

Opher – 14.10.2019

It seems to me that we are entering a new age of irrationality. Superstition and irrational thought is on the rise hand in hand with extremism, isolation and retraction.

Instead of reaching out confidently to investigate the unknown we are retracting back into ourselves and looking to unsubstantiated beliefs to give us solace.

The Dark Ages are descending.

Poetry – No One Knows

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No One Knows

Beware the ones with answers,

Ignore the ones who’re sure.

For no one knows

What it all is really for.

They ponder the mysteries

Breeding answers more improbable

As they seek to pierce

The armour of the impossible.

But all we know

Is no one knows.

Their answers

Are all no-shows.

No one has the key.

There are no messiahs;

No texts that reveal;

Just power-mad desires.

So beware the ones with answers.

They know what they do.

They are spinning you a tale

Some would like to believe it too!

Accept that no one knows

And love the mystery.

It’s full of awe and wonder

A paradise for free!

Opher – 13.5.2019

There are those that say that you not having the answers is proof that only their answers are correct. Only they have the solution to the mysteries around us. Yet their answers are more fantastical than the mysteries themselves.

So beware the ones with answers for they know not what they think.

Live among the mystery and love every second. I believe it’s all we have.

I know not where it came from or how it arose – but I sure like thinking about it.