My Grandpa ran the whaling station in South Georgia during the wars.
He said he felt closest to God on the bridge of his ship.
What a cathedral that would have been!
yeah we live in the greatest cathedral ever imagined, what artist could create the night sky (without light pollution!), or the shearing, raw beauty of the mountains?
Hurtingallthetime
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God made the Sabbath for Man, not Man for the Sabbath!"
churches are focal points ot share love of God and our fellow living creatures, not fear of God, not fear of religion and cliques.
God didn't make a church then make man.
If God punished, he'd be cruel and evil, punishment is useless except for public showing of wrongdoing and ME sure as heck ain't that and not God's work no more than all the permutations of weal AND woe the Universe he made can throw at you
(I believe heinous criminals needjailed ot keep 'em away from harming innocents, and removing wealth gotten by wicked forms of theft, I think petty cirminals should be "Pillaried" to breka fear of them and for their society to to see their wrong...and many cirminals really need psychiatric help or prevention of the ills that screwed 'em up).
Alas our societies have twisted punishment up with discipine, they are totally different things.
Hell and damnation is not punishment, it's what folk bring on themselves for being so utterly evil they refuse the light of God, no compassion, no justice so they lose themselves in a nightmare darkness that is "Satan & Hell".
(seen both sidesof the coin literally, not easy to live with such stuff, urf)
This illness is horrifically unpleasant,I've had osme real unpleasnt experinces and this ranks tops in sheer bloody awfulness because of duration and way it even affects your mind.
Mind and soul aren't same. Mind is biological interface as it were, and it cna suffer and be damaged and warp the programming of the inner self. We get grumpy, bitter, suffer terrible fear and panic attacks.
Jesus was tortured and crucified, but even he was given a coup de grace', and he asked for such a terrible cup to pass, he wasn't some crazy masochistm we are not perfect, we suffer, we fear, we all have breaking points.
We live in a fanastically beautiful world, but it's moslty people that make you cry.
I've seen..Heaven/holy spirit...there's no words for it, one of few things that cna shut my big gob up lol.
having said that, lol, best I cna explain it is wonderful light, filled with people of all types, time and space and physical being mean nothing, you are both individual, and yet linked in a huge "gestalt" of sharing and understanding
there is no hate, no fear no bitterness all that is left behind
God has no interest in punishment, harm, he simply does not do such.
God is love, enlightenment, wonder