Hello everyone, guess what, I have another worldly monk post.

I am going to start with the origin of this post. I needed to mix a sauce. I did not have a dish for it. So I used the rice pudding cup from what I ate earlier. It was just right. So then I prayed for everyone who did something similar, mildly innovative but not that big of a deal, to get a certificate some day, maybe together at an event in heaven.  And then to make it worthwhile, we all are eligible for cool jobs or something.  And then add the people who also did something like not waste a plastic spoon like what I used for something else.  So you can see the cheesiness of it, and yet doesn't everyone want their halfway creative deed to be recognized and rewarded.

So then I think, is eligibility for a job enough in heaven.  Don't we want salvation anyway coupons for people in purgatory or hell.  Like we find out that 80 thousand people have a way out.

So that is my catholicism but I am going to have to just add the actual topic for this post, which is this: Is there something beyond eternity. Can we say "Beyond eternity." I think some people will immediately claim that it is definitional and once you name eternity, then "Beyond eternity," is also eternity.  But I think I am on to something which is that there are things we can't fathom. And possibly even when Jesus himself talks about eternal life and eternal punishment.  I mean it couldn't be more clear.  And yet aren't we all taught that God is beyond comprehension.  And his ways are higher than our ways.  So I feel like you have to upgrade some meaning.  So we have temporary, permanent, eternal, and then beyond eternal? And then infinite beyonds? And then something else that we don't know. 

Mainly I think that these topics aren't as liberal as people might think. I don't just want to be a unitarian or something. I just am not one of those people. But I will be a catholic about it. I mean Catholics simply pray for the dead, and ever since I heard about that in my english class sophomore year, I have absolutely thought, of course.  I just feel that it opens up a hopeful outlook where not everything is about our middle school church camp.  

So okay. Another verse is where it says no eye has seen what God has prepared for those who love him etc. I mean I obviously believe in hell.  The same might be said for that! What is in store for those who hate him and his people! How horrible! And maybe people would be interested in that justice system. And then any philosophical teen would have to say, I wonder if the locations are mixed together.  And then what do we have right in front of us.  Life on Earth, with a lot of variety each day in each way.

 Hello everyone, I have another worldly monk post idea.  Ok.  Eventually presybterians realize that the righteousness is found in christ.  A lot of christians figure this out or are told properly.

So here is my question.  You know that verse that says "delight yourself in the lord and he will give you the desires of your heart?"  Well is that righetousness also from christ.  Like does he delight himself in the lord and give you the desires, and if so, is it the desires of his heart or your heart?

Or is the idea that they would be the same.  I am just wondering because I just got excused from a trip to California and in my heart I did not want to make the trip but I did want to be at the conference.  So I mean who knows.  And then if you start thinking about it, wow I did not want to be harrassed a million times from mean people in my life.  or did I?  Is that a picture of a suffering servant that I did want.  And does it lend itself to humor later on in a way that was practically imagined by me? And yet it wasn't imagined by me ahead of time. I don't think it was.  Not in that new age way that some people think.

So anyway, that is interesting. It's not that big of a deal but it makes me feel safer because if you think it is the desires of your heart you start trying to guess what is best and wish the best things for yourself and you don't know. I mean think of it. Think of social media which we did not even know would exist in our teen years.  

Anyway, speaking of desires of your heart. I think I don't have inspection today. But I am going to try to mop the floor.  Pals a staff person is downstairs and she is kind of new and it is not easy. I do not take it for granted.  But it is a good job that she has and it will help her later in life to have done well for people.

But still it is not easy and I do have it kind of easy but wow this heat wave is driving me crazy.

 Hello everyone, I have an interesting post idea today about hypocrisy.  I just saw an article online about an education employee who stole 11k dollars meant for kids.  And they are seen as so bad for that, but I just want to say that when people have careers helping people in a nice field, that is where their sins are going to be, because that is where their life is. Everyone is a sinner.  I am a writer so some of my sins will be in my books, won't they?  And I probably will sin sometimes, so where is the plagiarism? The slander?  Odds are, there are some small and even large snafus. I mean yeah no one should sin or do crimes, but our society is going to have a lot of dirt.  And if someone is a doctor, some of their sins might be in their profession. I mean other than that, it will be to family or friends or taxes or something, and is that any better?  I just think when we say that a goody two shoes is such a hypocrit because they stole from a charity or something, the truth is that they did their bad thing like anyone else did.  And that happened to be the category of environment that they had aspired to.  So maybe the stench is normal. 

Ok, that is all everyone, have a good day.

 Hello everyone, I have another idea for a worldly monk post. Ok. Presbyterian theology. God’s gaze on his creation, unbothered by offenses because Jesus taking our offenses elsewhere. That was not a good wording but I could not figure out how to say it. The seamless overlook.

So now I have another occurrence of gaze to mention as the idea of regard is considered. Ok. A child staring at people. Like to the point when a lot of parents might say not to stare. Pretty funny.

I mean it literally might be the foundation of all humor.

Well, that is all. 

Have a great day everyone.

 Well hello everyone, it is time for another worldly monk post.  This post has to do with gas prices and the verse that says "how beautiful on the mountain are the feet of those that bring good news," etc.

So basically there are great missionaries, but what about most americans. Well when you think about the feet of Americans bringing good news, where are those feet. Well often those feet are on gas pedals in stressful lives going 70 miles and hour when gas costs five dollars a gallon or more.  Meanwhile, social media has reached a few billion people on earth, and with that, a lot of christianity.  Obviously it is a dirty mess, and the immigration problems also suggest some stubborn refusal to go tell it on the mountain, etc.  But actually america has been an engine behind a lot of world outreach, and as we fund facebook with our attention and greedy ads, christians in other countries have probably done a lot of sharing similar to our better days on facebook.  

So there are a lot of feet that are beautiful in many places, especially wearing those Allbirds shoes that were advertised on facebook.

Giving, Giving in, or Giving up

 Hello everyone, unfortunately I have to do another worldly monk post. A friend of mine just quoted J.I. Packer as telling people to never compromise, and I truly believe that is one of the church teachings that has most hurt us. Compromise is one of the main forms of being "at peace" whenever possible, and it is a sign of not having a stubborn hard heart.  Often, when selfish people refuse to compromise, there are other people who suffer and have to lose everything.  Compromising also protects us when we are wrong and don't know it. That is all I will say about it.  Everyone is familiar with having the same government problems for thirty years. Now we see some of the spiritual roots of it.

When I blame it on the dementia you gave me

 Hello everyone, this post is going on the theology blog because it has to do with ethics, but it is possible that it belongs on my regular blog.  The topic has to do with plagiarism, and people who sanctimoniously make too big of a deal about it when it happens in minor instances.  

There is a quote about great artists "stealing," and I always thought actually using that as a creative lifestyle is really too much in the direction of accepting dishonesty. But there is another extreme where people think if you borrow a line or phrase once in a blue moon, even accidentally, then you deserve the equivalent of getting kicked out of Harvard, or not having any career or even hobby at all. A flicker of someone else's style that they happened upon sooner is regarded as serving raw chicken in a restaurant.  

Well raw chicken can kill people, but frankly, integrating some idea you heard into a rambling work of literature that weaves ten thousand thoughts in an artful and original way, doesn't really hurt anyone that much.  It doesn't.  You want to say it does, but it doesn't. And the reason you think it does is that you don't really know what an idea feels like.

I could sense the snootiness during the conspiracy when I accidentally repeated a joke about hump day on my blog, and when I agonized over keeping or tossing a poem that felt too familiar to me. It was christians who wanted to believe that I was a liar and a cheater.  And I simply am not.  And why do I have to live under that scrutiny? Does it help me? Is it team work? No. It is an accusation from Satan, and the people who do it make that mistake because they don't really participate at all in any idea economy.  They are looking for sins and have no bank of their own creativity.  Their thought life is a constant tally and evaluation of petty, small time virtue and vice, and the world of actual stories and jokes is foreign to their minds. So they wait on a perch for me to have a faulty blip in a life of creative service and sacrifice. And while the actual content of anyone's forty volumes of work looks like complete gibberish to them, they can, in fact, understand a cheap headline defaming a true writer as a cheat and fraud. It is easier to believe that then face the fact that their whole career is built on a few thoughts they had after sermons at an ignorant church.

You're just not my friends. You're okay with me writing for twenty years without an audience, salary, or any justice whatsoever, but if I name a mouse character a name that you heard of in a movie, then you think you deserve a worldwide audience to hear you call me a religious hypocrit. You think I should have said more about Trump, which is the only topic you could think of, but I lost five careers before you even learned how quotation marks work. Well here is some plagiarism for you: all the real artists agree with me and would say the same thing.

That was a good ending, but I need to add one more thought, which is that ironically, over-accusing people of copying your work is a form of stealing credit for their whole career.  Just a little hint of suspicion from a more powerful platform can make people think that a very creative person must have stolen all their ideas, and from who? you, of course. But that is where the sneakier and snakier intellectual property theft is. It is so much lazier than failing to google a title you think of.  Just sit back and let them write a whole book that you can later suggest was all from you. Maybe I even hacked into your computer. That would be a good story, wouldn't it? Let's see, that brings your total to one story.  And for your finale, you can say I copied this defense as well.