The Urantia Book...

The great God makes direct contact with mortal man and gives a part of his infinite and eternal and incomprehensible self to live and dwell within him. God has embarked upon the eternal adventure with man. If you yield to the leadings of the spiritual forces in you and around you, you cannot fail to attain the high destiny established by a loving God as the universe goal of his ascendant creatures from the evolutionary worlds of space.

The book says that a person ultimately is destined to fuse with his or her divine fragment and become one inseparable entity with it, if the person chooses to accept the Adjuster's leadings and become self-identified with it. The act of fusion is the moment when a human personality has successfully and unalterably won eternal life, described as typically taking place in the afterlife, but also a possibility during earthly life. The result during human life is a "fusion flash," with the material body consumed in a fiery light and the soul "translated" to the afterlife. The Hebrew prophet Elija being taken to heaven without death in "chariots of fire" is said to be a rare example in recorded history of a person who attained fusion.

Once fused with his or her fragment of God, a person continues as an ascending citizen in the universe and travels through numerous worlds on a long, adventurous pilgrimage of growth and learning that eventually leads to God and residence on Paradise. Mortals who reach this stage are called "finaliters." The book goes on to discuss the potential destinies of these "glorified mortals."
The Urantia Book places much emphasis on the idea that all individuals have the same opportunity to know God, and it says nothing can hinder a human being's spiritual progression if he or she is motivated to be spirit led.

The book regards human life on earth as a "short and intense test," and "is not so much a probation as an education"and the afterlife as a continuation of training that begins in material life. The "religion of Jesus" is considered to be practiced by way of loving God the Father with a person's whole being, thereby learning to love each person the way Jesus loves people; that is, recognizing others as brothers and sisters and being of unselfish service to them.

totally screwed up

Just to demonstrate how translator mechanisms work, I have taken a short articly by brother Lars written in german and employed the google translator to convert it to english...hopeless...or cute:

At some point a few years ago .... I then times behaupted that German was funded in large part by Luther and the Brothers Grimm. Partly true, yet the very knowledgeable scribe that described much better than me ... Anyway, here again: The Luther, Goethe and the Brothers Grimm. - Well - if that were all, it would be less than nothing. German is much older. Older than French or even English. Gensfleisch Since the Lord, which was named after Gutenberg, printed in German, was written in German a bit earlier. Much earlier. Until about 1200, Latin was the lingua universalis in Europe. Each farmer spoke Latin. The people in the cities anyway. There were regional languages. Almost all regional languages ​​are extinct. Dialects have survived. - When did the Middle Ages to the end, as it was also with the wits end. Nation-states emerged. England. Spain. Portugal. France. Sweden. Russia. Germany appeared the 1871st This was then the 2.Reich. The Holy Roman Empire Teutscher nation (1.Reich) existed since Charlemagne (crowned 800) for a thousand years and was only liquidated by Napoleon. Kaiser Karl did not speak German. Dissemination of salvation was important to him. His ideas were European. apart from brief interruptions (Okupation the remaining states by Prussia. Nazism and Hitlerism), Germany was never a nation state. Is still not today. Germany is a federation of states with several free states, provinces and city-states. are here states that dreamed of regionalists in Europe are (Basques, Bretons, Scots, Welsh ...)! In fact, it has never been Germany. A dream muddled brains. There Swabia, Rheinhessen, Sauerland, Bavaria, Berlin and recently again Saxony, etc. These people can be in the German language to communicate. The parlierenden in German Swiss are no Germans, though they speak German, read, write and understand. This also applies to Austria.

About Time and doing it now...

I have a number of great books on my night-table and I pretty well look at most of them every day...or every night I should say.
One of them is on the subject of...procrastination....it's about the fourth or fifth one down in the pile...

The Spanish have a proverb: Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. Clever wordsmiths, those Spaniards.

We all procrastinate. We dawdle and delay, dally and defer. My office floor is still home to a pile of papers that needed filing two months ago; I'm waiting for them to stop dallying and file themselves.

Whatever the task, whatever the excuse, the tips below will help you do today what most people put off to next month.

1. Ask yourself, What's the holdup? People procrastinate for many reasons. Some fear failure. Some avoid boring jobs. Others shy away from getting tangled in a complicated mess (i.e., my pile of papers). Knowing the cause of the problem may open your eyes to an obvious solution.

2. Do you need to do it? Simple question, but it's a good one. Sometimes we put something off because it's not important. If you don't really need to do it, free yourself of the mental burden and drop the task from your to-do list.

3. Ask for help. I have a pile of stuff in the lane bettwenn the garage and the house, things I'm workingb on. The Impala has a parasitic battery leak, this has been going on for a while. There are boxes in the basement which have not been opened since I moved in herev 4 years ago. The garage is a mess of stuff, it includes about 5 bikes...I only use one...occasionally.

4. Commit just five minutes. That's it--just 300 seconds. Telling yourself you only have to do something for a sliver of time does two things. It transforms a big job into a tiny matter: Five minutes? I can do that. And because getting started is the hardest part, once your five minutes is up you'll often drive right

5. Focus on the end. Thinking about how you'll feel when you've done whatever needs to be done may motivate you to make it happen.

I don't much like to organize, but I love to be organized. This is what I focus on--the feeling of having everything in its place, clean and tidy--when I need to declutter a space. Although my pile of papers proves that I have some work to do.

6. Just do it. Quit stalling. Quit rationalizing. Stand up, walk to the danger zone, and get to work.

another Bush thing...promise,no more...

Top 10 Reasons Bush Should Apologize!

10. He was the first president in more that 200 years to have his vice president shoot someone (while still in office). It happened one time before in 1804 when Vice President Aaron Burr, serving under Thomas Jefferson, shot Alexander Hamilton.
9. He set back the cause of reading 300 years. He read My Pet Goat and had trouble with the big words. Bush reportedly said in 2000: “One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
8. He set back the cause of science 200 years when he proclaimed to a crowd in 2005, “The jury is still out on evolution.”
7. He appointed John Ashcroft as attorney general. One of Ashcroft’s first tasks was to cover up the exposed breast of the Spirit of Justice statue at the Department of Justice.
6. Kim Kardashian first came to prominence during his administration.
5. He was responsible for hanging chads, swinging chads and the Florida election count, and ultimately for the lame Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore.
4. He spent more than 400 vacation days at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
3. He said in all seriousness: “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”
2. He unfurled the “Mission Accomplished” banner seven years too soon.
1. He couldn’t find Osama Bin Laden

writing....

I am really not all that talented when it comes to writing stuff..I read a lot and occasionally I like to comment on some of what I manage to take in. I can be quite critical if the writing does not make much sense or is hastily put together or inaccurate. Lately I have enjoyed reading most of the books by John Grisham, an American novel writer. I do normally do not read much fiction but J.Grisham's Lawyer stories are to a large extend based on true happenings and contain a lot of social and cultural facts. Pollution, racial tensions, exploitation of certain regions,tort lwayers and their dirty tricks, big tobacco,chemical industry, big drug cartel internationals, they all become targets of finely spun yarn by this great writer.

About writing

Don’t expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.”—Leslie Gordon Barnard, May 1923

“If you tell the reader that Bull Beezley is a brutal-faced, loose-lipped bully, with snake’s blood in his veins, the reader’s reaction may be, ‘Oh, yeah!’ But if you show the reader Bull Beezley raking the bloodied flanks of his weary, sweat-encrusted pony, and flogging the tottering, red-eyed animal with a quirt, or have him booting in the protruding ribs of a starved mongrel and, boy, the reader believes!”—Fred East, June 1944

“We writers are apt to forget that, as the gun smoke fogs and the hero rides wildly to the rescue, although the background of this furious action is fixed indelibly in our own minds, it is not fixed in the mind of the reader. He won’t see or feel it unless you make him—bearing always in mind that you can’t stop the gunfight or the racing horse to do the job.” —Gunnison Steele, March 1944

“Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really great struggle, the epic struggle of creation, is the inner fight of the individual whereby the soul builds up character.”—William Wallace Cook, July 1923

“Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion—that’s Plot.”
—Leigh Brackett, July 1943

“You can’t write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren’t good old familiar short stories. Novels aren’t built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.”—Orson Scott Card, September 1980

“Don’t leave your hero alone very long. Have at least two characters on stage whenever possible and let the conflict spark between them. There can be conflict with nature and your hero can struggle against storm or flood, but use discretion. … You could write a gripping story about a struggle between a lone trapper and a huge, clever wolf. But the wolf is practically humanized in such a story and fills every role of villain. The wolf too wants something and does something about it. A storm doesn’t want anything and that’s why its conflict with man is generally unsatisfactory. It doesn’t produce the rivalry which is the basis of good conflict.”—Samuel Mines, March 1944

“The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written.” —Joyce Carol Oates, April 1986

“The writing of a mystery story is more of a sport than a fine art. It is a game between the writer and the reader. If, once in a while, a really fine book comes out of this contest, that is good; but the game’s the thing. If, on Page 4, the reader knows that the soda cracker is spread with butter mixed with arsenic, and later on this is proven to be true, then the reader has won the game. If, however, when the reader finishes the book, he says, ‘I didn’t get it—all the clues were there, plain as who killed Cock-Robin, but I didn’t get it,’ then the author has won the game. The author has to play fair, though. He has to arrange his clues in an orderly manner, so that the reader can see them if he looks hard enough.”—Polly Simpson Macmanus, January 1962

“Authors of so-called ‘literary’ fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don’t pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.”
—Dean R. Koontz, August 1981