It is infinitely expandable\u2014well, not literally \u201cinfinite\u201d but a lot\u2014and also capable of being edited down to a few lines for those who are not interested. How much to put into my obituary? For those who read my obituary, it seems that there could be several lengths: (1) addressing just the high points briefly, for newspapers. (2) A medium level for the funeral service or description. But there could well be a fuller biography, and even that wouldn\u2019t capture the richness of it all.<\/p>\n
The point is tht I\u2019ve lived a life that\u2019s full. For me, full enough. I\u2019ve wanted more everything, but realized that that\u2019s another example of (as my mother might say), \u201chis eyes being bigger than his stomach.\u201d I\u2019ve come to realize that what I experiences was pretty much all I could handle. There was a fuzzy area, perhaps, a little more or less, some give. But overall, I\u2019m happy and fulfilled.<\/p>\n
I did not conquer the world. I\u2019m 0.25% disappointed, and even then, not really. I only know that I felt picked on by my older brother, though on looking back I was probably a pest and he didn\u2019t do it all that much. But I did want to conquer the world and then the universe in my early adolescence. One\u2019s big brother wouldn\u2019t dare pick on one if one were the emperor of the Universe.<\/p>\n
But then I repented, or matured, and I grew to realize that there was the small matter of management, of ruling\u2014and it\u2019s so very detailed. I don\u2019t want it. I love my life now. No harem, just Allee\u2014she\u2019s more than enough. Instead, I have built a myth of a curious God who wants to live through us\u2014all two\u2014no, four\u2014billion of us, or is it six or eight billion, now? That\u2019s inconceivable, but then again, the Great Spirit is.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve decided to abandon the concept of one \u201ctrue\u201d religion and make up my own version of God that operates through all dimensions but may be recognized as trans-dimensional. On the 8th level it\u2019s a glow, or perhaps more vivid, but it seems evident, to me. I certainly don\u2019t need anyone else to believe it. This idea just works for me, at least for now.<\/p>\n
Much time and thought have gone into the nature of God, from drifting through agnosticism into atheism, and then ever so gradually back to a more sophisticated but at this 8th dimensional level adequate version\u2014really beyond-eighth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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