[A_perfect_lady]

Wow. One of the few people who can actually handle the reality that death is indeed the end, and not pin their hopes on some fantasy afterworld.

[Daffynition]

Love is love. The eternal Now.

100 billion points of light
on a living breathing vibrating sphere
travelling through the vastness
learning lessons of love and life and death
recognizing the beauty of creation
feeling the spectrum of emotion
receiving the gift
with each breath

solstice prayers
dear friend
blessed be

"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening
That is translated through you into action,
And because there is only one of you in all time,
This expression is unique.
If you block it,
It will never exist through any other medium
And be lost.
The world will never have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is,
Nor how valuable it is,
Nor how it compares with other expressions.
It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly,
To keep the channel open.
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work.
You have to keep open and aware
Directly to the urges that motivate you.
Keep the channel open.
No artist is pleased.
There is no satisfaction whatever at any time.
There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction,
A blessed unrest that keeps us marching
And makes us more alive than others."
And
For no reason
I start skipping like a child.

And
For no reason
I turn into a leaf
That is is carried so high
I kiss the Sun's mouth
And dissolve.

And
For no reason
A thousand birds
Choose my head for a conference table,
Start passing their cups of wine
And their wild song books all around.

And
For no reason in existence
I begin to eternally,
To eternally laugh and love!

When I turn into a leaf
And start dancing,
I run to kiss our beautiful Friend
And I dissolve in the Truth
That I am.

[bluecollarman]

“pin their hopes on some fantasy afterworld.”

I am one of those...fantasy after-worlders. I serve a risen Lord. I feel great sorrow for those who can not look forward to an everlasting life in his presence, and you can too.

[oust the louse]

Can you expand what you mean about a fantasy afterworld? Are you talking about 72virgins or something else? curious....

[rightly_dividing]

I feel sorry that this poor lost soul is now finding out the error of his beliefs, too late to do anything about it but suffer anguish and torment forever. Three years and seventeen days ago I faced death too. I was dying and stood only a very tiny chance of surviving a surgery to save me. I too was at peace, But the difference was that I was in a win-win situation; I would either remain with my wonderful loving wife for a while longer, or I would go on to be forever with my loving God. We each make a choice, and we will live with it throughout eternity, in Heaven or in Hell.

[Coldwater Creek]

Heaven is a fantasy world?

I'm dying from a horrible illness (Pulmonary Fibrosis). I'm now afraid of death because I KNOW that when I pass from this body, I will be in the presence of God. Fantasy I think not.

[Matchett-PI]

"Wow. One of the few people who can actually handle the reality that death is indeed the end, and not pin their hopes on some fantasy afterworld" ~ A_perfect_lady

"If anyone wants to know why I so despise the secular left -- why it is the mortal enemy of [our] way of life -- perusing this infrahuman dispatch from the bowels of metaphysical ignorance would serve as well as any, for it reveals the ultimate premise and goal of the left in all its hideously naked barbarity, which is to turn man into a beast. Entitled Science Friday: You Are Not That Special, it reads,

"a pair of recent articles point up the folly of making tool use the test of humanity. It appears that chimpanzees had their own 'stone age.' Around the same time the pyramids were being constructed in Egypt, Chimps in West Africa were using stone tools to get at hard-shelled nuts. It's not only chimpanzees of the past who use tools. It's long been known that some bands of modern chimps use sticks to tease insects from their hives."

"There, you see? This ignoramus looks at the vast panorama of creation and concludes that one of the seven wonders of the world is indistinguishible from a hungry monkey cracking open a nut. By this adamantine logic, Kos himself is nothing more than a grubby chimp poking his joystick into a cyberhole to satisfy his animal impulses. Which, of course, is entirely true, but that's beside the point.

"The self-confessed beast in question then asks, ...." Continue reading here:

The Subhuman Agenda of the Psychospiritual Left

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"...This is one of the intrinsic errors of scientism, as it tries to pretend it can get along without final causes, even while habitually slipping them in the back door. For the truth is, one cannot even think coherently in the absence of final causation. ... [....]

"Metaphysics deals with ultimate causes "from above," i.e., the vertical, as opposed to the purely horizontal causes explored by science. Thus, one way to eliminate final cause is to simply pretend that the vertical does not exist, even though, again, the very conduct of science is impossible in the absence of verticality, no matter how attenuated. The moment a scientist has said "truth," he has said "vertical," and therefore finality, absolute, and God. For the truth of something is its final cause.

"What is the truth of man?

"Note that the materialist does not really eliminate final cause.

"Rather, he simply affirms that the final cause is the material or efficient cause, i.e., random matter and energy.

"That being the case, he is promulgating the metaphysical absurdity of "absolute relativism," or --------- the impossible idea that the ultimate meaning of existence is ultimate meaninglessness.

HERE