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Re: Never Too Early, Never Too Late         

Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Robert S
Date: Jul 29, 2008 15:23

On Jul 29, 12:59 pm, Andy googlemail.com>
wrote:
>
> As I write this, I’m recovering from a failed suicide attempt. I am
> receiving psychiatric treatment, which appears to be working. Like
> many people in my situation, the experience has renewed my faith. I
> could have died, but I didn’t- was some higher power looking out for
> me- was something telling me “it’s not my time yet”?

No.
> The experience led me to ponder over the Book Of Revelations. My
> personal interpretation of this text helped me to reach the following
> “conclusions”.
>
> The physical world will eventually end, and everybody eventually will
> die. It is not a question of “if” but one of “when”.

We'll all die. That won't always be the case though.
> The final battle, “Armageddon” is a battle for personal integrity, or
> the fight for one’s true self.
>
> It is never too early and never too late to begin this fight.
>
> In the Second World War, when the allied troops were being evacuated
> from Dunkirk, many must have wondered whether the war could ever be
> won. But somehow those soldiers managed to keep their spirits up, and
> were rewarded with victory a few years later.

The Dunkirk soldiers were wasted in Greece and elsewhere. They didn't
matter in the end.

Britain was in a great position in 1940 anyway.
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