Eternity is a long time. <\/p>\n Say a teenager does extremely nasty things (steals, rapes, beats up people etc.)<\/em> and, when asked, agrees that he is evil. And he’s fine with that! Then a bullet kills him in a shoot-out. According to many religions he would go to Hell. For Eternity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But if he’s only wounded, a hospital would fix him up. <\/p>\n Would he then, according to these very same religions, go to Heaven? For Eternity?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So a minor amount of money spent is the difference between Heaven and Hell. <\/p>\n I have a problem with this! You?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ————————–<\/p>\n These are related:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1<\/strong> Ferris Wheel<\/a> –\u00a0 3<\/strong> Cumulative Knowledge<\/a> –\u00a0\u00a0 7<\/strong> Disaster<\/a> –\u00a0 11<\/strong> Feedback<\/a> – 12<\/strong> Change<\/a> – 13<\/strong> Changing Change<\/a><\/p>\n 14<\/strong> Eliminating Triggers<\/a> – 18<\/strong> Being Triggered<\/a> – 20<\/strong> The \u2018Gift\u2019 of Knowledge<\/a> – 21<\/strong> Interpretation<\/a> – 24<\/strong> The Wedge<\/a><\/p>\n 27<\/strong> Responses<\/a> – 29<\/strong> Who\u2019s in Charge?<\/a> – 30<\/strong> Ever-changing Relationships<\/a> –\u00a0 33<\/strong> Solving a 5<\/a> –\u00a0 37<\/strong> Or Its Equivalent<\/a><\/p>\n 54<\/strong> Self<\/a> –\u00a0 66<\/strong> Opposites<\/a> –\u00a0\u00a0 67<\/strong> Personal Nag<\/a> –\u00a0 73<\/strong> Killing Frogs<\/a> – 74<\/strong> Dictating Your Miracle<\/a> – 75<\/strong> Same<\/a><\/p>\n 77<\/strong> Nine Cows<\/a> –\u00a0 79<\/strong> Truth Time<\/a> – 86<\/strong> Don\u2019t Be Yourself!<\/a> –\u00a0 90<\/strong> Good\/Bad<\/a> – 96<\/strong> Habits<\/a> – 102<\/strong> Response-ability<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eternity is a long time. A bird lands on a granite mountain once every thousand years. By the time it’s worn down, it’s the first second of eternity. Because Eternity is a long time! Say a teenager does extremely nasty things (steals, rapes, beats up people etc.) and, when asked, agrees that he is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28,36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-good-bad","7":"category-insight","8":"category-mistakes","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA bird lands on a granite mountain once every thousand years.
\nBy the time it’s worn down, it’s the first second<\/em><\/strong> of eternity.
\nBecause Eternity is a long time!<\/p>\n
\nAnd, say there’s some spare \u2018social’ money available to spend on him.
\nSoon he’d become aware that his background caused him to be the way he was.
\nAnd with more social money he’d develop his skills.
\nThen he’d express himself creatively and not violently.
\nNow<\/strong> a stray bullet strikes him dead.<\/p>\n
\nFor Eternity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n