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391. If it is true that emotion is experience-able only in a time-space relationship (154) then it is little wonder that our pictures of eternity are painted with oblivious smiles of non-feeling.

392. The Nirvana mindset is one of non-feeling, not one of all-feeling or emotion Christian heaven has no variance in emotion, being all-praise and all-joy. Being locked into a single emotional state for all eternity can be no different than having no emotion at all. The difference between heaven and hell is lost.

393. In ancient Judaism there was no expectation of significant change in the afterlife, but that afterlife was closely linked and bound to a single space on earth, not a different dimension.

394. Those who believe that witchcraft died in the seventeenth century, need only watch the sidelines of a modern sporting event for disproof.

395. The whole shape of modern sporting events in which two armies of warriors oppose each other as their spiritual guides on the sidelines step through intricate dances while reciting carefully cadenced rituals which serve to whip the worshippers into a spiritual/emotional frenzy, is not at all unlike any primitive spiritual encounter.

396. Modern sporting lacks only the deistic ingredient to rank it as equal to the great witch workings of magic of the 15^th, 16^th, and 17^th centuries.

397. Imagine, for example, the overt symbolic magic which would be represented were we to dress our prison inmates in the uniforms of enemy armies, to be slaughtered on a field of combat by the forces of our native land to work sympathetic magic against our foes on the battlefield. Or, more profoundly, consider the socio-economic prestige gained by the conquerors in Olympic competition. Here, the priestesses have been denied admittance for the working of their ritual magic, leaving the fate of their tribes to hang on the prowess of the warriors alone.

398. Who invented the idea that 5,000 troops carrying automatic high-powered weapons, barricaded behind barbed wire fences, and plopped down in the middle of a country in which they do not even know the native language can possibly be called a peace-keeping force?

399. A multi-national super-corporation of civilians should  be created for thepurpose of creating peace in war-torn countries. They should be funded by a world fund, dedicated to establishing an economic recovery of the nation. The corporation should be production-oriented, custom made from the affected country, consumed internally, or for export.

400. This peace-making corporation must be made up of highly trained and skilled individuals, not the least of which training should be in the native language. For only by learning the language can the peacemakers hope to understand the people. Peace will not precede understanding.