(Originally written September 4, 2005 in Book 2)
Philosophy is a tool to give comfort and consolation. It has been stripped of the power to answer intellectual difficulties, regulate morality and other things it was created to do. Now Russell hopes to strip it of this power.
It is impossible to imagine a timeless existence.
The comfort of metaphysics is that God will come from Heaven to judge the wicked and exalt the righteous, but since God has waited so long there is no reason to believe He will ever leave Heaven to do so. There lies the comfort in the grave of common sense.
People desire immortality to rectify the injustice of this world and to meet up with those who have already passed.
What appears evil now will be forever evil. There is no comfort in true philosophy.
Metaphysics is an empty abstraction.
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