Mary Rose Martin, an elementary school teacher, sees life as a test and agrees that the purpose of life is to pave the way to heaven. Upon reading “How Humankind Came to Be,” an article Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi published in The Epoch Times last month, she wrote to the newspaper: “Living in the way he [Li] suggests would certainly bring about a very different worldly experience.”
In her view, life is like “a stream that extends forever.” “Right now, this is a very short, little piece of the stream. So what we do here will matter only insofar as what we’re going to go from here, down the rest of that stream,” she told The Epoch Times….