"We are survivors." "We are part of the people who went into the mountains to survive when the conquistadores were massacring our people."

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That's why I've tried to say if there are souls, at least that opens the door to the possibility that we will survive our death.

这就是我一直在说的,如果灵魂存在,至少这为我们在死后继续活着,创造了可能性

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Next question is going to have to be: If there are, do we have any good reason to think that they survive the death of the body?

下一个问题将是,如果存在,我们有没有很好的理由去相信,肉体死亡后灵魂依旧存活

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Now there is an irony there, because without the myth, we lose out on a great many worth to survive With myth, taken literally, we are self-fullfilling the past.

现在又多了一层讽刺的涵义，因为没了神话，很多人会觉得失去了活下去的价值,而要是我们按字面意思理解神话，我们就能填补过去的空白。

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Change often signals danger or opportunity and if we are especially tuned-in to change, it helps us survive ? and it helps us pass along our genes. Okay?

变化通常意味着危险和机遇,如果我们能调整适应变化，我们生存能力更强,并且能传递我们的基因，是不是？

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