Damn the Nicæan Council and the rest of the mistranslators of the Bible for excluding references to re-incarnation, to forward their own greed. End the falseness of King James, use modern translations of older (preferably from before 350AD) Bible copies, or use the Baghvad-Gita.

To Alice: As a pet owner who still feels a hole in his heart over the four-years-ago loss of his cat, my hear goes out to you on Buddy’s passing. Here’s something I just read about the love and loss of a pet that I hope will help:

“But I also feel like, in some ways, [the death of my cat Gabby] was my fault. They say youu cut several years off a cat’s life when you let them go outside. So why did I let her, in a congested urban neighborhood? In some ways, I was still trying to make up for how I treated her after the “incident,” and to show I still loved her in the pre-incident way. I now relaized, and for some reason didn’t realize it then, that pets don’t really have memories. They respond to how they’re being treated at the moment, and that years of kindness and loyalty can erase a couple of nasty afternoons or weird, semiperverted nights. Yes, you should live ever moment like it’s your last, and all that, but pets are around for even less time, and we should appreciate them fully before they’re gone.
Gabby used to sit on my laptop. Sometimes, I’d leave it open and she’d sit on the keyboard and really screw things up for me. For eleven years, I made it a habit of running into my office and making sure my laptop was okay. It still occasionally occurs to me that I should check.
But she isn’t there.”
– Neal Pollack, THINGS I’VE LEARNED FROM WOMEN WHO’VE DUMPED ME

Best,

Den

I believe the right way to live is to embrace our temporariness, embrace the inevitability of death, embrace the fact the most valuable resource we all have is time.

Embrace, then move forward. To brood about what you are not is to not be what you are.

What we do in this life? The future? Matters deeply. Blessed are the children.