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.
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