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Heaven . . .

6/28/2015

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Do you believe in Heaven?
Loaded question . . . define Heaven.  Literally translated, heaven means sky.  Yes, I believe in sky.  Do I believe St. Peter will great me at the gate to the streets paved with gold?  No, that's a construct of hope our tiny minds made up to explain our fear.  Don't get me wrong, "heaven" exists.  It's just not what you think it is.

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Greek Gods . . .

6/20/2015

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Who is your favorite Greek God?
That's a question I never expected.  I had to think about how to answer that because I wasn't interested in studying any Greek Gods in school; I only learned what I had to learn to pass the test.  I know my answer though, always have, so here it is, Morpheus.  He's the god of Dreams.  He's a Dreamwalker.  He's a shape shifter.  I was fascinated by that ability.  That ability is real, I knew it then, I know it now.

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God's chosen ones . . .

6/11/2015

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Aren't Christians really God's chosen ones?
I get so tired of all the finger pointing I see in the Fundamentalist world of religions.  Jews are not the chosen, neither are the Christians, Buddhists, the Wiccans, Atheists or Islamists.  Belief that one group of people has been "chosen" (coincidentally, the one to which you belong) as favored or favorite, is an arrogant, self-centered load of hooey designed to control you.  We are all chosen, we are all one . . . the sooner we recognize that the better this planet will be. 


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Thy will be done . . .

6/11/2015

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My friend is sick, I'm praying for a healing, nothing is happening, am I doing something wrong?
You are not doing anything wrong, your intention is in the right place.  What needs to be understood is that illness, mental and/or physical, is multi-dimensional.  When you pray for someone's "healing" you are assuming responsibility for knowing what form that healing will take, yours.  That's a linear view.  We tend to assume, with our linear viewpoints, that healing, continued life in current form, is the best.  We can't know that.  It is always best to pray, to even wish (with love), "all that's theirs."  Some people understand that as Jesus taught it, "Thy will be done."  That's good too.


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Imagining . . .

6/11/2015

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Is World Peace possible?
Of course world peace is possible.  The question is better posed, is world peace probable?  I can think of one way world peace is probable now, it would require a redistribution of the population on the planet.  Fundamental laws of world-wide intent.  How is that possible?  It's not, it's just a dang good thought to muster real . . . it has to include the enlightened death of capitalism.

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Jesus absolved my sins?

6/11/2015

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If you proclaim Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior you will be absolved of all your sins.
Really?  No matter what crime I commit against humanity, I'm completely forgiven by saying, even knowing, that Jesus is my Savior?  I am to believe that a serial killer, a despot, a genocidal maniac, goes to the same place I'm going because all sin is "erased" by those words.  Not a chance.  You can't just talk a good game.

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Karma . . .

6/11/2015

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I've created too much bad karma to be a completed spirit here, I'm going to have to come back aren't I?
To you specifically asking, yes, you will be coming back here.  You won't do that because you have to, you'll do that, as you always do, because you want to.  Do note that any karma, even if you consider it bad karma, can be balanced in any dimension, technically karma exists as a vibrational frequency.


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Autism and Empathy . . .

6/11/2015

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How can you be Autistic, you feel empathy?
First, let me state for the record that "Autism" is not synonymous with "non-empathetic".  If anything I am overly empathetic, I am an "empath".  I feel what other people feel.  I "cry" when people win on "Price is Right" because I "feel" how "happy" they are.  It's literally a physical connection, one that can be scientifically measured, a "heart" connection.   On the other hand . . .

I cry watching that same "happiness" in serial killers.  I "understand" how they feel too.  A connection is a connection is a connection.  Wrap your mind around that for a second . . . is there "good/bad" empathy?  Who defines it?  I know that it is me making those judgment calls.   I know I'm the one who decides which of those happiness's will be defined as my horror.

I think more than a few autists are empaths.  Imagine how literally, how completely, overwhelming it is to "feel" what humanity feels.  Imagine if you could "feel" the "thoughts" of all those around you, all of them, all the time, ask yourself how confusing that might be.  Sometimes that puts me right straight down for the count.

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Technology . . .

6/11/2015

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Why aren't you utilizing all the technology available to get your message out there?
I don't want to learn some things no matter how easy it is to learn.   Technology is easy to love (to become addicted to) and that's not why we're here, not why I'm here.  It truly does on many levels, frighten and amuse me, to think what, what in this world, would happen to all ya'll if the grid went down.


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Have you been baptized?

6/9/2015

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You have to be baptized to go to Heaven.  Have you been baptized?
First, you do not have to be baptized to get into Heaven.  That is completely illogical.  I do not need any religion, any sect, any human, priest or preacher to sprinkle water on me, or even dip me to prove my worthiness to God.  Yes, I have been baptized, and it was not my choice, I was baptized as an infant.  My children were baptized too, it was important to my parents, my father was an Episcopalian priest.  I knew it didn't hurt.  AND, I still stand by my understanding that you do not have to be baptized by anyone or anything to get into what you deem "heaven".


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    About Janet:

    Janet DeLong, PhD, is a philosophical writer.  She'd tell you that is by default, we know it's by design.  While her perceptions are not always comfortable, they are always
    intriguing.

    Why am I answering your questions?
    I'm answering, in part, because it amuses me that my response to that question could be just as cryptic:  "Maybe I'm not."  That lets me laugh.  Truth is, words really do hold power.  How language is used to communicate, all the words, phrases, sentences, intrigue me.

    It has always been a challenge to be able to communicate my truth on every single level I can think it.  I've actually accomplished that twice, in two sentences.  The best sentence I've ever written:  "pi will id."  And the truth:  "When you finally understand yourself a particle, you wave."


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