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Author: bigfletch8bigfletch8 Date: Sep 6, 2008 17:58
On Sep 4, 3:52Â am, "tooly" bellsouth.net> wrote:> "Kevin B. Murphy" comcast.net> wrote in messagenews:Ee2dnSNsp9hiVyPVnZ2dnUVZ_tHinZ2d@giganews.com...
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>>> On  2-Sep-2008, Pop Fly gmail.com> wrote:>
>>>> 3) My sworn oath: I willingly would endure the fires of hell to
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>>>> what the truth is.
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>>> Bad plan, Mr, Faust. If the fires of hell existed, avoiding them would
>>> be the only thing that mattered.
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>> Well, you know, I don't believe that there are any obstacles in the
>> afterlife that would impede us from going to the place where we want to
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>> Hell is too hot for some but perhaps not for others. Â Hell is an
>> intriquing
>> place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.
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> I've always envisioned hell not as a place, but as an experience; that
> experience not being the horrible pain of fire or other tortures [bad
> enough], but of the simplicity of hopelessness. Â I base this on my
> observations of life, where if my spirits remain high, I can weather much
> greater hardships and whistle while I work as it were. Â But then if I have
> lost spirit, even the tiniest stub of a toe can bring misery beyond belief.- Hide quoted text -
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Place and experience are interconnected, but only within your own
consciousness.(your own creation).
Hope is one of those links. Creates a 'sine wave' combining the
duality with its opposite, being despair.We create around each cycle,
such as the toe stubbing example.
Noticed that when you feel a 'blissful' state, that there are no
issues present? Not to be confused with a "high"...as in "Everythin's
Goin My Way", but to do with the 'pure lightness of being'.
This is the natural 'neutral' state that we are all working towards.
BOfL
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