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Pastimes : Ask God -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Machaon who wrote (27390)	10/2/1999 12:11:00 PM
From: mark silvers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Robert, I will try to keep this short:-) If does not take a yearning for road kill to enjoy a hot fudge sundae(my faovrite food). If I ate nothing but hot fudge sundaes, they would eventually cease to be pleasurable. If the temperature was always 98 degrees, it would no longer seem hot after awhile. it is the concept of relativity, the knowledge of having experienced something cold that lets you understand hot. If everything was always near, you would never understand far. It is all relative. As far as having expereinced failure in a certain subject or area, you don't need to. You, as have all people, have espereinced failure at something in your life, and that makes achievement all the sweeter. Of course you can experience taunting and teasing as not evil, but you talked about your sheltered upbringing. I was just saying that it may have been sheltered, but the awareness that something bad could happen is present with every kid, even the most sheltered. It is that knowledge of evil that allows you to enjoy freedom. AS far as your assumptions being equal to mine about heaven, of course they are. I never meant to imply otherwise. I certainly hold no "celestial knowledge" that is above anyone else. I just mention my opinions and philosophies, I don't expect that they be treaed with any more or less respect than anyone elses. I never said Hitler is sitting on the beach rubbing body lotion and dringking wine spritzers. Anymore than I believe he is sitting in brimstone being tormented by demons. Put it this way, God is theoretically capable of anything. After your death, when you have lived your life with your own free will you sit before God. He can torture you, or grant eternal bliss(assuming you believe in judgement and heaven and hell which I don't) which is the higher road? to torture or to rehabilitate? God can teach even a broken soul to love and be loved. Which path works better for the celestial community? To have hard core demonic recidivists in hell, bitter and angry, wanting revenge? Or another productive, loving soul? What does alzheimers have to do with a soul being constrained by the bodies genetic makeup? Why would a person that has the genetic makeup that predispose one to like vilence have to be constrained byt he bodies geneteic makeup, after it leaves that body? Of corse I believe in personal responsibility. I believe in treating people with compassion and kindness becuase that represents the person I wish to be. No more or less. I would not release the murderer from jail because I am unable to guage his isncerity or his chance to committ the same acts again. God is not constrained by my same failings theoretically. Mark