Wow. I woke again!

Unreal being alive. 

Hell

Heaven

No, it truly is.  I mean as opposed to being dead, which we know little to nothing about, well let's see....in actuality there is...... nothing..... any of us know about being dead, truly know, because if you are dead you don't come back and tell everyone how good the breakfast was, or that there was traffic between cloud 9 and cloud 13 that had really screwed up the day. You can read about stuff that life goes on, eternal life, and that you aren't in your body anymore (yipee!) and that you will live in wealth and beauty and that life goes on and on and on and on....forever. Or you can look at the other side of the picture, living in Hell and fire and torment and so forth...not an attractive state.

Forever is such a seemingly useful, yet frightening word.  It is in complete contrast to the words used by 'no-believers' in that they are here, and then they are gone, and they are but a memory.  To a certain extent, I guess that is true, but, because you are stuck in memory, and because there are people (those weird things with two legs that walk around making the world go everyday) that think about you, well, you may be dead, but there is that part of you that continues to live.

Wikipedia (The All Knowing Place Of Rightful Information) says: While in the popular mind, eternity (or foreverness) often simply means existence for a limitless amount of time, many have used it to refer to a timeless existence altogether outside time. By contrast, infinite temporal existence is then called sempiternity. Something eternal exists outside time; by contrast, something sempiternal exists throughout an infinite time. Sempiternity is also known as everlastingness.

Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

Mark Twain continues to live.  I mean, if you think about it, the guy who released his final book (the story of his life) on the 100th anniversary of his death, meaning he had lived from 1835 (Haley's comet came by) and he died a day after Haley's comet came by again, in 1910, then had his autobiography released in 2010, meaning (in a very liberal way) that the guy had 'lived' for 175 years, and even though he wasn't here with us, it doesn't mean that there are not people, we have known, that were alive when he was around, and people that now are gone are known by people that are living.

For example, my Grandpa - Effie Pritchard was born in 1882.  So Effie knew people who were born (albeit not many) in the very late 1700's, and he lived to be 99 years of age, which put him out of this life in 1981, which corresponds to my being here until now, 2012, so......I knew Effie (really knew him) so it could be said that using Effie as the middle man per this example, he had shaken hands with a man who was born in 1799...meaning that I had been his great grandchild, had sat and talked with him, recorded him actually, and that because of my age there has been 213 years and four centuries (agghhh) that two people touched.  Two, just two. If you figure it out, and should I live long enough, maybe there is someone I will relate to in this way.

If a person goes to figuring things out in their own lives, there will likely be about 75% of the folks running around today that can or should remember people who they have met along this earth that encompass more than one century, but two or three or four is possible, and all that with just two people.

If someone goes to figuring out what has transpired during that time, it is unbelievable.