Everyone should enjoy the opportunity to meet someone like me over the course of their lifetime I think. You could do far worse than to have me for your judge; I'm willing to give everyone a fair pardon from punishment, without exception. Leave no person behind, they are worth fighting for. Yes even our misguided villains such as Hitler deserve a chance to learn and grow; his life provides an excellent example of what it means to be human. But what potential do we posses to become, given unlimited time to learn and grow, it's hard to guess what we would be able to achieve, individually or collectively. Despite the fact that we exist as individual personalities, we are in no way separate from one another or the Universe as a whole; we are rather inter-dependent individuals. Each of us exists as part of something far greater than ourselves, and so much bigger than life on Earth as well. Throughout Human History we have seen examples where one individual's life work made all the difference, influencing our world beyond the limits of a single lifetime. I think we forget how big the world really is, all that we know is boundaries and if they don't exist in nature we will impose them upon ourselves. Only to divide our reality into manageable chunks, but we don't always recognize the relationships between those parts.
None can be greater than the least favored among us, we all change the world a little bit simply by living in it, in our own way we make a difference. We are all children of humanity from the beginning to the end, without possibility of divorce. It will never be within our power to separate ourselves from all the rest. The underlying Unity behind all created things will always and forever defeat our desires for separation. No physical distance is great enough and it still be within this Heaven or Universe, we are and have been citizens for the full extent of the future. Because the Universe has a way of remembering itself, it contains information about every part thereof, past and present to the utmost detail.
Most of my life experiences exist in the past, unchangeable. There is not a single thing that you or anyone else can say or do to me that will turn my successful life to failure. And if you desire to see us fail, I can only feel some pity for you. My self-esteem is healthy enough because I know that I am loved, with or without your approval. Therefor I do not need additional accomplishments in my lifetime to make my life complete; and I do not feel the need to convert followers to my own point-of-view. I will never depend upon the whims of popular opinion or a majority vote; I have the only vote and supporter that really matters. I have no doubt that I have been loved, but clearly it may not follow that I will live forever. Our reward for a lifetime of labor may be the very same; a mortal end and whatever comes after. We've been given no good reason to expect more than this. I'm more than willing to be surprised by the outcome here, if I feel any disappointment I know that I can outlast such feelings. God grants us no guarantees that we will avoid hardship completely, to the best of my knowledge no-one has ever had such a guarantee.
The good prayer of our brother Jesus begs for a way to pardon us from all punishment. Perhaps that prayer was well heard and the simple argument that, "I did not know any better at the time." will serve us before our judges. I hope that is the truth.
I'm sure that I'm not the smartest person in the world, but I don't see that as a certain advantage in life.
I love being crazy though, clearly that is an advantage.
None can be greater than the least favored among us, we all change the world a little bit simply by living in it, in our own way we make a difference. We are all children of humanity from the beginning to the end, without possibility of divorce. It will never be within our power to separate ourselves from all the rest. The underlying Unity behind all created things will always and forever defeat our desires for separation. No physical distance is great enough and it still be within this Heaven or Universe, we are and have been citizens for the full extent of the future. Because the Universe has a way of remembering itself, it contains information about every part thereof, past and present to the utmost detail.
Most of my life experiences exist in the past, unchangeable. There is not a single thing that you or anyone else can say or do to me that will turn my successful life to failure. And if you desire to see us fail, I can only feel some pity for you. My self-esteem is healthy enough because I know that I am loved, with or without your approval. Therefor I do not need additional accomplishments in my lifetime to make my life complete; and I do not feel the need to convert followers to my own point-of-view. I will never depend upon the whims of popular opinion or a majority vote; I have the only vote and supporter that really matters. I have no doubt that I have been loved, but clearly it may not follow that I will live forever. Our reward for a lifetime of labor may be the very same; a mortal end and whatever comes after. We've been given no good reason to expect more than this. I'm more than willing to be surprised by the outcome here, if I feel any disappointment I know that I can outlast such feelings. God grants us no guarantees that we will avoid hardship completely, to the best of my knowledge no-one has ever had such a guarantee.
The good prayer of our brother Jesus begs for a way to pardon us from all punishment. Perhaps that prayer was well heard and the simple argument that, "I did not know any better at the time." will serve us before our judges. I hope that is the truth.
I'm sure that I'm not the smartest person in the world, but I don't see that as a certain advantage in life.
I love being crazy though, clearly that is an advantage.
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