PK,

In answer to your question about the music in Heaven:

"The band in Heaven
They play my favorite song...
Play it once again....
Play it all night long"

Talking Heads: "Heaven"

Celivia, if it is real I hope we can't hear the cries and screams of those who persist in using the idea of god to spread hate. That could get pretty tiring after a few thousand years.

Now for the days bible reading - from Matthew 25:35
"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thisty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me." - guess where they go

Then in v42
"For I was hungey and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me." - and for them something completely different.

R0bert

BOOK: Guest author on ABC Radio National Breakfast program this morning Thu, 17 Aug 2006.

Title We Are Their Heaven
Why the Dead Never Leave Us
By Allison DuBois

http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=515714&agid=2

PK I think you miss my point a bit .
Only you can know when you have paid for a wrong you’ve done .
Sometimes you cannot simply apologize in order to feel free , You may need to be forgiven .
Even then you may still feel guilt , To repent may take the rest of your life .

Good incentive to consider carefully the potential consequences of your actions before you act .

Peter Sellick wrote "While we know that the lion will not lie down with the lamb such poetic expressions prick our longing and raise the spectre of the healing of all things."

You would be surprised...lions whom satisfied after a meal will lie with the 'lambs' without harming them...but addressing the metaphor... a little story told about Buddha. After he reached 'spiritual awakening' under the boa- tree, his favourite place to meditate, he would go into meditation and become one with everything around him and said to emanate an energy of 'blissful happiness' or some would call 'gods love' in response which could be felt for miles around him by all. The story goes that in the forrest people would see meditating buddha in the centre surrounded by all creatures of the forrest, birds to deers to tigers, all sitting around him in perfect peace and harmony. Not too hard to imagine, in presence of such powerful pure love that animals set aside their instinct and respond with peaceful love...the only thing I can imagine not comfortable here is people with evil as their innate nature whom would seek to suppress love, such of course does not exist in the world of animals and fish but humans...

To heaven and hell, as a christian to read the first few pages of genesis...will give you all the information you need on heaven, unless you choose to confuse yourself. To hell, well...all things are created by god with a purpose and meaning...including hell. Devil too, he has a purpose and a destiny to fulfill before he can become one with god again as he began...same to all of us.

Sam
Ps~to evil to good, everything has its opposite, like the chinese ying and yang. Perfectly balanced with evil and good, the person is neither. But one has to act in the process of living, each of those acts can be judged by god to be evil or good, our choice in our acts to the path we will take, heaven or to hell...and let evil act on evil, and good on good

Snout, I have to agree with you 100% on Talking Heads. I saw them play "Heaven" live in 1984, just David Byrne and Tina Weymouth on a huge stage. Sublime....

Actually, this forum could do with a bit more Talking Heads. "Life During Wartime" for the Israel/Lebanon conflict, "I Zimbra" for the endless debates on indigenous cultures, "The Jezebel Spirit" (from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts) for BOAZ_David's interminable ramblings.

Of course, one mustn't forget "Once in a Lifetime" for those existential moments when our vapid consumerist culture threatens to overwhelm anything decent in the world:

"And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile

And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife

And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?"