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BEING ALONE

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“If you discover that you’re all alone in space and that you’re actually enjoying your newly discovered peace, calm, quiet and serenity, there are a few thousand other things you can do to amuse yourself.  Most likely, your greatest problem will be boredom: the #1 enemy for a spirit. If you lived on Earth very long you will already know that people are obsessed with NOT being bored.  However, this may not be a natural condition for spirits.”  

— Excerpt from the book 1001 THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU’RE DEAD by Lawrence R. Spencer

THE ICY FLAME

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Before Being was the Icy Flame.
You and I and All.
The Flame conceives.
And From that Eternal Fire comes Thought:
Joy and Love and Pain.
We pretend. We betray.
We deceive Our Selves with play.
We invade the dark relentless void with incandescent Light.
Like candles in a forge we play a game that melts the soul.
Each victory drowns the flame within Our Selves.
And yet The Flame still lingers in us all.
We flicker faintly far from The Hearth of Home.
Burn brightly Lonely spark.
Remember You and I and All:
We are the Icy Fire.

— Lawrence R. Spencer, 2012 —

LET IT BE PREDETERMINED

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LET IT BEFatalism: noun —  resignation, stoicism, acceptance of the inevitable;

Stoicism: noun — the endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint.   synonyms: patience, forbearance, resignation, fortitude, endurance, acceptance, tolerance

Predeterminism: nounthe idea that all events are determined in advance.[Predeterminism is the philosophy that all events of history, past, present and future, have been already decided or are already known (by God, fate, or some other force), including human actions.

Predestination; nouna doctrine or theory common to many of the prevalent religions such as Christianity, Islam Buddhism and Hinduism. Some of the features of it apparently seem identical with each other in every religion but the spirit of this concept generally varies in all to cause the bewilderment in the human community as to which of these explanations is based on truth.