No Vested Interest
No Vested Interest's JournalThat's all right.
We're all just where we are.
Likely doesn't pertain to you anyway.
I believe in hell not just as a matter of faith, but also as necessary for perfect justice, as God is all-Just.
I think the resurrected bodies will be
similar to the resurrected body of Christ when He appeared to His Mother Mary, Mary Magdalen and the apostles after His Resurrection., i.e., He was able to go through doors and appear and disappear. The bodies will be perfect - without imperfections.
Heaven is a matter of faith as is hell. I believe it will be very different from what we imagine, we humans being limited in our imaginations.
Heaven will include the Beatific Vision; hell will be the absence of the Beatific Vision.
Many believe that at the moment of death all are given a last choice.
For that reason, I personally believe that few choose hell, but perhaps throughout all of humanity, some have made that choice.
I too look forward to seeing others in Heaven, especially my spouse, but also my ancestors, as I have some unanswered questions to ask them
I doubt I could take a whole program
filled with Newt's ego, especially week after week.
It would be demoralizing.
Medjugorje- ca 1990
I was on a tour of Yugoslavia- it was still one country at that time, though Tito had already died.
One of the stops was Medjugorje, which was the one of the reasons I wanted to make the trip. My spouse, though a faithful Catholic, would not have been interested in making a pilgrimage just to go there, but a trip to the various cities - Belgrade, Split, Dubrovnik, etc.- was fine.
Our tour group did meet one of the women visionaries. So we attended Mass & maybe confession , but no retreat, etc. The town was extremely touristy, even at that time.
As I stated, I had no mystical experience there, though I believe others (not in our group) that say they did.
The next year, I sent my sons there as part of trip to the whole peninsula. The son who remains a practicing Catholic, had no extraordinary experience, while the other son, who is non-practicing at this time, said he saw the swirling sun, etc.
A trip to Rome is a fine thing, uplifting but not necessarily with supernatural elements.
One has to wonder how the Diocese of Columbus deals with
unmarried heterosexuals cohabiting?
What steps do they take when such a relationship is known?
Or is it only homosexuals that are treated in this manner?
So he goes to Russia for six months
and leaves his American wife and baby, who apparently returned to her parents during his absence. Unless she's worked, her parents were likely supporting wife and baby.
Tamerlan reportedly told one of his relatives that his work was fixing cars. Again, not sure how he and brother got income for rent, food, car, gas, let alone money to make weapons of mass destruction.
Very peculiar goings-on.
Unfortunately for me
I have not had the type of experience you refer to.
I accept that apparently my psychology is not particularly receptive to that type of experience, sort of like some people cannot or should not be hypnotized.
I have been to Lourdes and Medjugore and saw or felt nothing other than what was physically obvious.
I don't doubt that some do have those actual experiences, though.
Poster is painting with a broad brush
After all, this is Massachusetts and the chances are more that the police are Dems are higher there than is most other areas.
Before floating such charges,check to see who the unions endoresed in recent elections. (I don't know the answer, but I wouldn't be throwing out statements without being better informed.)
Thanks for the heads up
Having word the Romney will be on TV at 6p.m. is the incentive I need to get off my --- and go exercise this evening at 6p.m.
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