Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.

因为如果你考虑一下，自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质，生后即是死。

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So let's ask ourselves, are there any interaction effects when we talk about the human condition ? that it's life followed by death?"

所以让我们问问自己，当我们讨论,生后即是死的人类处境时,有没有相互影响“

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You may think you've gotten away with something, but every act of social exploitation, every act of moral corruption, pollutes the sanctuary more and more until such time as God is driven out entirely and human society is devoured by its own viciousness and death-dealing.

犯了罪的人也许认为自己侥幸逃过一劫，然而他对所作的每一个行为，每一次的道德堕落，都会越来越玷污圣所,知道有一天上帝完全弃圣所而去,人类社会充斥着我们自身的邪恶和毁灭行为。

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Well, it's interesting, I think, to compare the Greek way of dealing with this human problem that we all have, the problem of death. How do we deal with the fact that we will die?

我觉得,这是一件很有意思的事,拿希腊人的方式来对照,如何处理死亡这个人人面临的问题,我们应该如何面对,我们将会死去这一事实

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After all, if you rip out your gun, shoot me in the heart, I bleed to death, we still have a human body in front of us.

毕竟你拔出枪,击中我的心脏,我失血而亡,我还是保持着肉体的形式

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That's the human condition--life followed by death.

那就是人类的处境，生后即是死。

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To go philosophically from life's so bad given the nature of the human condition, life followed by death, that better to never have had any of it than to have just had a taste and a tease and so forth.

在哲学上从生命是如此不好出发,给定人类处境的本质，生后即是死，什么都不要有,比只尝一口然后被戏弄等等要好。

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