The Grand Moff Is Off— To The Caymans.

Dressing up like the Grand Moff Tarkin from Star Wars has nothing to do with Harold’s errant biblical predictions calling for the destruction of the entire planet.

A Higher Gear

  “The intellectual factors of religion are important, but their over­de­vel­op­ment is likewise sometimes very handicapping and embarrassing.” — The Urantia Book     In a thrift store recently I saw a framed sign for sale. I didn’t buy it, but remembered it.  It said:                           Life is a test.                         It is only a test.                         If it had …

Future News From The Other Side

Looking decidedly uncomfortable in the habiliments of their stature as last judgment defendants, George Bush and Dick Cheney stand before the Eternal Judge of the Ages. (Click) MANSONIA ONE — With eyes averted and lips cemented together as if to prevent himself from blurting out the truth, while his former vice-president grimaced and snarled in the face of his predicament, …

Knocking On Death’s Door

Although the death scenes in these two well-produced tubes were selected for their cinematic qualities,  they can still set the mood for a more serious contemplation of your own mortality. Check’m out. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tqh2drbzZs&feature=related[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvtm06DYhBo&feature=related[/youtube] I don’t need to tell you how large the idea of death looms in our collective consciousness, in our daily lives.  After all, people are dying …

Mortals Petition God For New Hell Policy

[M]ercy may be lavish, but justice is precise. —The Urantia Book IN A MOTION filed with the Universe Supreme Court yesterday, a group of mortals from the planet Urantia petitioned the Creator to revise his original plans and set aside at least one world for the eternal damnation of George W. Bush and his allies. “We know that the nature …