It's No Joke

Book excerpt: Philosophy is NOT just for eggheads. It's a human subject that is supposed to do its best to answer Three Fundamental Questions: Why am I even alive? Is there actually an invisible Daddy-Mommy God, and if so, what are its qualities? Is there life---thinking & feeling---after death? Every person on earth wonders about these things---especially when they are in some sort of pain. They wonder if life is just making it up as you go along---or is it unfolding like a plan, like a script, like a story that has been imagined first and then lived out? Alexander T. Newport has been obsessively thinking about these things since 1970. He was 6 1/2 years old when he asked his father, "What does it mean to die?" And his father replied, "When you're dead, you're dead. No more thinking. No more feeling." Your Philobabblist Extraordinaire has been chewing on the subject ever since. NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: It's No Joke: We Live in Hell is a slim book. It is the size of a pamphlet. Be not surprised that it is only about 50 pages long, dig?