What are the chances of getting into heaven? 25 11 26
Yeah it'll take me a few days to work this one out so by the time I will officially be 86 years of age perhaps I'll have the answer, or maybe a partial answer, lol, 25 11 13
The thing that prompted the question, after another night of strange dreams, I'm going to blame on the new medication of Androgen Deprevation Therapy: if you do not know for what purpose, I am sorry you may have to await your turn, but otherwise I believe some of the ppl more familiar with my blog will already have twigged the reason(s)?
Being of an age one has lost half the members of one half of our family's older generation these past five years: my wife's two brothers and one of her sisters-in-law, whilst in my case only a sister, since becoming an octogeneration, my wife now being left with an older sister and older sister-in-law, whilst I have lost my only sister, but retain an older brother and an older brother-in-law. Thus reflecting yet again how my wife and I comprise a marriage of opposites!
Of these last 5 deaths only one person went straight to heaven, that of my sister, who every day of her adult life attended church, the Roman Catholic Church, serving for many years as a Minister of the Eucharist, whilst she an Englishwoman had no such competetion among the predominant Lutheran population of the country in which I have become a migrant of, Finland.
My sister died of a coronary event over dinner one Sunday evening and was swept away within a couple of minutes, none the wiser (?) whereas our Finnish relatives had to a man, or woman, fight protracted battles with sickness before their collective departures, this world for the next.
But as a recent convert to "Humanism" (a rationalist outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine, or supernatural matters. Humanism affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives. A Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medievil scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought. [among some contemporary writers] A system of thought criticized as being centred on the notion of the rational, autonomous self and ignoring the conditioned nature of the individual.) So Google has it!
But "Belt and braces" man as I like to regard myself, can only quote such sources, whilst my narratives on the whole I like to think of as derived, as a part of being a human being in "on the whole a messed up world..."
Take another example of what I believe each day these past 16 years this month since I began my daily swimming in the sea after a few months trial-period: from the 19th August when I first dipped my toe in the Baltic Sea, temperature 13 degC for a whole month, but as I neared my 70th b-d to accept a lovely black gift of a cotton bath robe from my dear wife to mark the occasion with the key to the Ladies' beach hut Men's side...For what before long became my daily pronouncements: "This is my heaven on Earth!"
The thing that prompted the question, after another night of strange dreams, I'm going to blame on the new medication of Androgen Deprevation Therapy: if you do not know for what purpose, I am sorry you may have to await your turn, but otherwise I believe some of the ppl more familiar with my blog will already have twigged the reason(s)?
Being of an age one has lost half the members of one half of our family's older generation these past five years: my wife's two brothers and one of her sisters-in-law, whilst in my case only a sister, since becoming an octogeneration, my wife now being left with an older sister and older sister-in-law, whilst I have lost my only sister, but retain an older brother and an older brother-in-law. Thus reflecting yet again how my wife and I comprise a marriage of opposites!
Of these last 5 deaths only one person went straight to heaven, that of my sister, who every day of her adult life attended church, the Roman Catholic Church, serving for many years as a Minister of the Eucharist, whilst she an Englishwoman had no such competetion among the predominant Lutheran population of the country in which I have become a migrant of, Finland.
My sister died of a coronary event over dinner one Sunday evening and was swept away within a couple of minutes, none the wiser (?) whereas our Finnish relatives had to a man, or woman, fight protracted battles with sickness before their collective departures, this world for the next.
But as a recent convert to "Humanism" (a rationalist outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine, or supernatural matters. Humanism affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives. A Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medievil scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought. [among some contemporary writers] A system of thought criticized as being centred on the notion of the rational, autonomous self and ignoring the conditioned nature of the individual.) So Google has it!
But "Belt and braces" man as I like to regard myself, can only quote such sources, whilst my narratives on the whole I like to think of as derived, as a part of being a human being in "on the whole a messed up world..."
Take another example of what I believe each day these past 16 years this month since I began my daily swimming in the sea after a few months trial-period: from the 19th August when I first dipped my toe in the Baltic Sea, temperature 13 degC for a whole month, but as I neared my 70th b-d to accept a lovely black gift of a cotton bath robe from my dear wife to mark the occasion with the key to the Ladies' beach hut Men's side...For what before long became my daily pronouncements: "This is my heaven on Earth!"
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