tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352395970681996095.post1785551982893372573..comments2024-01-27T00:20:30.239-08:00Comments on Casa Cognito: Hell: Perspective and EternitySwellsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05593178312657435749noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352395970681996095.post-36022139607140941932011-05-01T08:58:05.729-07:002011-05-01T08:58:05.729-07:00I always find myself going back to the ants, watch...I always find myself going back to the ants, watching them lead meaningful ant lives, unaware and unconcerned by things around them on so vast a scale as we humans lead ours. A car comes along and drives over an ant hill, temporarily sealing the entrance. Unperturbed, the ants dig out and go again about their ant business. They are miracles of creation no less than we. Is there an ant heaven? Doubt it. But when we picnic in heaven my guess is they will be there along with the butterflies, flowers, trees, herbs, shrubs, lions and tigers and bears.<br /><br />There is in Fundamental Christian thinking and in some non-Christian religions as well a sense of an afterlife so dazzlingly wonderful in its fusion and union with God as to be the ultimate bliss and joy. That is heaven. What would be its antithesis then? Darkness?<br /><br />These are the things the ants don't worry about as they go about their ant business. <br /><br />Nor perhaps should we.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06411954902917229743noreply@blogger.com