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Title: What is Eternity?
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Published: Nov 3, 2006
Author: Richard
Post Date: 2006-11-03 22:22:05 by richard9151
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When I was 8 or 9 years old, I read something, (in a Catholic school of all places!) that has stayed with me for more than 40 years. To say that this created a powerful picture in my mind is a serious understatement, and I would like to share it with you. Eternity. That is a word we use, but what picture does it bring up? Because it is something that is so far beyond anything that we can imagine...... Picure a 1,000 feet in diameter solid steel ball floating in space. A bird flies by and just brushes the steel ball with it´s wing. In 1,000 years, the bird returns, and once again, flies by and brushes the steel ball with its wing. Thereafter, every 1,000 years, the bird returns and each time, brushes the steel ball with its wing as it flies past. Evenutally, after a very, very long time, the steel ball is worn away to nothing and disappears, just by the action of the bird brushing its wing against the steel ball every 1,000 years. Now picture, if you will, behind where this steel ball was suspended in space, another 999 1,000 feet in diameter steel balls floating, each of them awaiting their turn to be worn away to nothing by the action of the bird brushing its wing against them every 1,000 years. When all of those steel balls have been worn away to nothing... that amount of time, is less than 1/1,000,000,000,000 of a blink of your eye as compared to Eternity. And that, my friends, is what we have been Promised, by Him, for those who would chose to join with Him. In ABSOLUTE Perfection.
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#1. To: richard9151 (#0)
The three hour Rush show followed by the three hour Hannity show.
I've got this one...a bird picks up a single grain of sand from a beach, and flies off to a distant planet with the grain of sand in its beak. One million years later, the bird reaches the distant planet, and drops the grain of sand. He returns to Earth after a return trip of another million years, picks up another grain of sand, and heads back to the distant planet, a trip of another million years. By the time the bird is done transporting all the grains of sand on Earth to this distant world, Eternity will have JUST BEGUN. Wrap your mind around that one, folks. (Especially if under the influence of 'intoxicants'.)
When the going gets weird the weird turn pro. - Hunter S Thompson
James Joyce - "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" pg 238 std edition.
That still freaks me out whenever it crosses my mind.
And I want to know how the silly bird flys to a distant planet as there is no bouyancy in a vacuum and what's he going to eat anyway??? (BTW I have no idea what page the description is on)
I rather frequently use Joyces's choice phrase from TPOTAAAYM, "Hurled Howeling into Hell". Nice wordmanship, there.
The same way Superman does.
Ahhhh. I should have thought of that - the Superman Therom. Yeh that's the ticket.
Jeeeeez... that beats my picture hands down!
The Solution is to apply, for the first time in the history of the United States, the Constitution to Washington, D.C.
I´m just an innocent here.... you have to define intosicants for me... er, intoxicants.... I was one... I think....
The Solution is to apply, for the first time in the history of the United States, the Constitution to Washington, D.C.
Eternity is how long the oligarchs and corporate elites shall rule over us all....
What is Eternity?
#2. To: richard9151, all (#0)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#3. To: tom007 (#1)
#4. To: who knows what evil (#2)
I've got this one...a bird picks up a single grain of sand from a beach, and flies off to a distant planet with the grain of sand in its beak. One million years later, the bird reaches the distant planet, and drops the grain of sand. He returns to Earth after a return trip of another million
#5. To: tom007 (#4)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#6. To: All (#4)
#7. To: who knows what evil (#5)
That still freaks me out whenever it crosses my mind.
#8. To: tom007 (#6)
And I want to know how the silly bird flys to a distant planet as there is no bouyancy in a vacuum and what's he going to eat anyway???
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#9. To: who knows what evil (#8)
The same way Superman does.
#10. To: tom007 (#1)
The three hour Rush show followed by the three hour Hannity show.
#11. To: who knows what evil (#2)
Especially if under the influence of 'intoxicants'.)
#12. To: richard9151 (#0)
 | Gold and silver are real money, paper is but a promise. |
#13. To: Elliott Jackalope (#12)
Nope... I know for a fact that is not true. Just general information in history shows that evil ALWAYS destroys itself. It may not seem that way to those who suffer the evil, but it does happen just the same, and it happens just as sure as God made little green apples, and the sun comes up in the morning. It is a function of His Perfect Law that such happens.
Eternity is how long the oligarchs and corporate elites shall rule over us all....
The Solution is to apply, for the first time in the history of the United States, the Constitution to Washington, D.C.
#14. To: tom007 (#6)
Do not screw up a good story with details! Please!
how the silly bird flys to a distant planet
The Solution is to apply, for the first time in the history of the United States, the Constitution to Washington, D.C.
#15. To: who knows what evil (#2)
i got lost after the first million years. :P
#16. To: christine (#15)
You blondes. Or was that last week?
i got lost after the first million years. :P
#17. To: tom007 (#16)
the blonde highlights i got last week :P
#18. To: christine, tom007 (#17)
Can you post a picture?
the blonde highlights i got last week :P
#19. To: Diana (#18)
Can you post a picture? Sure she can. heheh (was a good looking pix, christine, i am proud of you)
the blonde highlights i got last week :P
#20. To: Diana (#18)
Going to Lake Charles Monday. Need some refinery stink or anything?? That 18 hour drive is a killer. Am going to investigate the coastline, it was closed last time we were there, and will report back. There is still a world of hurt in southern Louisiana.
#21. To: tom007 (#20)
I would be interesting in hearing about what you saw when you get back, I hope you have a safe trip, and get to eat some of that good food from there ! Those refineries across the river put out some bad smells. It's known among oil and chemical industry scientists that Lake Charles was one of the most highly polluted cities in the US. Louisiana was always known for crooked politics and with all the refinery pollution pumped out by industry through the years, it's made an environmental mess. I've been to Lake Charles and Baton Rouge when the air was so thick with it, especially on those hot, muggy days when there is not even a slightest breeze, and it really stinks!!
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