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The British writer Graham Hancock writes elegantly and persuasively on the topic. But again, there is no consensus.”
Mention this reference to Graham.
That is one of the worst aspects of evil, that it always involves the death of possible good, always proceeds from the destruction of something that might have been so much better.”
Ideas of the Maker on planets on which reptiles, insects, and birds had developed into the ascendant species did not reflect anger or love or vengeance as did the human mammals’ vision of the Maker.
respect for the very elderly was what we call today the norm. Elderly people, in fact, had the greatest freedom to do just about anything they wanted to do. People rose and bowed to the elderly, offered them tables in crowded restaurants, fell silent when the elderly spoke, and stepped aside for them on the street.
Where do I buy my ticket!?
Amel waited. He was looking at each of us in turn and then his eyes settled on Derek. “Ooooh, I see,” said Derek. “The Chambers of Suffering! The films, the streams! They are feeding off the suffering of the planet!”
Damn, Anne!
I do know that suffering itself, emotion, pain, agony, rebellion, these things give off an energy just as the sun does, and just as the raging sea does….But I have not been able to discover the science of it! I have not been able to discover how the energy given off by emotion can be translated into the physical or biological realm! It’s driving me mad.”
The idea of the “Realm of Worlds” deliberately fomenting suffering on Earth and planting the idea that suffering had value, the idea of the “Realm of Worlds” actually using this suffering as a form of energy, was more ghastly than anything I could ever have imagined.
But think on this! Think on the surprise of Welf and me when we came alive again in the twentieth century, having slept for aeons in the ice, to discover that the major religion of the Western world taught that suffering is good and suffering has value!
Think of our horror to discover the mythic story of a God who sent Himself in human form to the planet to die a horrific death through crucifixion to appease Himself with His own Incarnate suffering! Think on that.
I mean now the rock-bottom idea of the God Incarnate religion that holds that God Himself works through pain and suffering to “redeem” His creatures from His own wrath. And then think on the concept of eternal damnation that lies behind this God Incarnate–crucifixion religion—the idea that the Maker of the universe, the
Maker of all worlds, has devised a place of eternal unspeakable conscious agony for all human beings who are not redeemed through acceptance of the horrific execution of this God Himself as His own Son in the flesh!
If you really want peace in any world you have to learn to say nothing.
We confessed we were both at a loss to account for the dark cynicism of so many humans living in a modern world so full of wondrous progress. “They can’t know history as we know it,” I said.
But what endures is what has always mattered: love—that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And if there is any hope for us to ever really be good—that hope will be realized through love.
