Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse if free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, every present, because immortal.
Aeschylus' Libation Bearers:
Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the haemorrhage none can staunch, the grief, the curse no man can bear.The End in near...wait hold on, what do you mean you got the date wrong Harold Camping. As I wrote earlier this week, the world is still standing, and Jesus has not returned to the earth to take those selected Christians on to heaven, though it would have been nice, it would have taken all the dumb people who believed in it off this planet. The rapture came and went without so much as a fire cracker like experience. Sure people jeered and laughed at the people like, Robert Fitzpatrick of New York had put his money where his faith is "The 60-year-old retiree spent $140,000 -- almost everything he had -- on hundreds of billboards proclaiming the Armagedon that Camping predicted. Some people like Harold Camping, the California preacher and owner of Family Radio International who started all this hoopla, took refuge in his home, refusing to comment on his failed prediction. I give him some (not a lot, just a little) he stuck to his guns til the end. But May 21, 2011 came and went like any other day, and May 22 was bright and sunny.
But there is a cure in the house and not outside it, no, not from others but from them, their bloody strife. We sing to you, dark gods beneath the earth.
Now hear, you blissful powers underground - answer the call, send help. Bless the children, give them Triumph now.
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