For some value of “normal”… Watch Good Bye, Lenin! -- and that was only a few months. Or see this post, and the post it’s a followup to, and the posts that one is in turn a followup to.
We are not talking about the territory, we are talking about the map.
The point is the difference in perception (which you may argue is wrong, misguided, etc. -- it still exists) of the religious afterlife and of the regular human future.
For some value of “normal”… Watch Good Bye, Lenin! -- and that was only a few months. Or see this post, and the post it’s a followup to, and the posts that one is in turn a followup to.
We are not talking about the territory, we are talking about the map.
The point is the difference in perception (which you may argue is wrong, misguided, etc. -- it still exists) of the religious afterlife and of the regular human future.