Deathbound / Abnormal treatment

My son tells me I make too much fuss about religion and its core, the supernatural (God). He argues it's enough to be kind to others to make it to heaven ('if there is heaven' - I bet he adds when I'm not looking, and compromises the kind of religious indoctrination I'm brilliant at).

I tell him the kind of kindness he's talking about isn't good enough - it's natural, it's normal. And normal isn't good enough, normal is death-bound. 

Does he expect his body to live for ever if he does to it what's merely normally good? 

Perhaps just as - in our contaminated context - regardless of whether we treat our body normally badly or normally well, it's still death-bound, so our soul too - regardless of whether it's normally unkind or normally kind, it's still hell-bound; unless it gets some highly abnormal treatment. 

An independent goddess (not)

A beautiful woman may be a goddess, but she's not an independent goddess (is she?)

Eternal

A Buddhist friend of mine tells me I must be 4K something years old to know what I know. He's wrong – my knowledge comes from before time.

(At least as far as whatever we were talking about – which is the answer to the Universe, life and everything – is concerned.)

The Missed Midnight in Paris to Come

Bang in the middle of the hot summer of 2012 I wanted to go to Park Henrykowski, situated on the grey block-littered outskirts of Warsaw, to see Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, which was to be screened in the open air. I left my place too late, got on the wrong bus and never got there. All those months later I still receive weekly reminders of the event from the Google calendar, which don't let me forget I must have moved a wrong lever somewhere on the relevant website; and that life seems to be as much about losing experiences as about gaining them* - and that we are free to focus on the missed Allen's shots of Paris or on going there and shooting it ourselves. 

(If that's not corny I don't know what is.)



*however, as a believer in total compensation I believe God can restore our lost experiences at some point, and on his terms of course.

μετανοέω: zero in on something* else

Strong's Concordance

metanoeó: to change one's mind or purpose

Original Word: μετανοέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: metanoeó
Phonetic Spelling: (met-an-o-eh'-o)
Short Definition: I repent, change my mind
Definition: I repent, change my mind, change the inner man

HELPS Word-studies

metanoéō (from 3326 / metá, "changed after being with" and 3539 / noiéō, "think") – properly, "think differently after," "after a change of mind"; to repent (literally, "think differently afterwards").

*something is an obvious fallacy, or rather heresy; it is Somebody.