An editorial in al-Ahram Thursday likens normalization to the defeat suffered by Native Americans who let distractions lead to their doom in the battle against European settlers.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

Typically, we're distracted from thinking about them by the distractions provided by the body-- the desire for food, drink, sex, what have you, sleep.

通常我们对这些东西的思考,被身体的一些需求打乱了,比如对食物,饮料,性,睡眠的欲望

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We want to free ourselves from the distractions of the body, but we don't want the body to die, because when the body dies the soul dies as well.

我们想把自己从肉体的干扰中解放出来,但是我们不能让肉体死亡,因为当肉体死去的时,灵魂也会同样消亡

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