The Egyptian pouring so much societal wealth and energy into preparing for death seems a bit morbid to me.
We want to prepare for the afterlife, and we want to pray for and honor the dead, but we need to know pleasure, ease and enjoyment of the secular world around us, today, in the present, enjoying it just for its own sake. The allure of the secular needs to be nourished and appreciated too.
We need balance between being otherworldly and worldly even as we prepare to earn our way to heaven in the afterlife.
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