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   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/8/2016 5:50 AM, dagnabit wrote:   
      
   > he was saying that the kingdom of heaven is at hand,   
   > meaning that it is here and now and not some reward   
   > after death, which is still what many believe today even   
   > though he told them otherwise two thousand years ago.   
      
   May I be a bit dry and intellectual here. It all depends   
   on how one takes what happens (or what does not   
   happen). That margin of freedom is freedom, itself in   
   itself. It is all the difference, without remainders. Let the   
   dead bury the dead may mean (I am not saying that it   
   means) to drop all concerns and enjoy what is present,   
   in front ("Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor   
   or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory   
   was adorned like one of these". Or: "And why do you   
   worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field   
   grow: They do not labor or spin.") Heaven and hell are   
   just gross exaggerations (materialisations) of the choices   
   (or absence thereof) made right here and now, without   
   any background.   
      
   The moral is that it is up to your spin. (All the usual   
   disclaimers ...)   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)