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Sunday, August 15, 2010

The bigger idea ...

It is all about what happens after the 'happily ever after' ?

I believe the title page has already give-away some hits on what may have influenced and inspired me. 

"And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." Revelation 21:2


OK ... the truth ... I was not a follower of God in 2004; rather, I was kind of misunderstood the whole book of Paradise Lost by John Milton ... I bowed to the other side instead; don't blame me, John Milton was just too confusing to an English as second language student; when he wrote: 

"Fall'n Cherube, to be weak is miserable
Doing or Suffering: but of this be sure,
To do ought good never will be our task,
But ever to do ill our sole delight, [ 160 ]
As being the contrary to his high will
Whom we resist. If then his Providence
Out of our evil seek to bring forth good,
Our labour must be to pervert that end,

And out of good still to find means of evil; [ 165 ]

and

"Farewel happy Fields
Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail [ 250 ]
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. [ 255 ]
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less then he
Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: [ 260 ]
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:

Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n."




Anyways, so I questioned myself this, "What is a perfect world?"




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