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There is no more Limbo... no place for the unbaptized babies to go except to heaven.

Is this good news, or what?

Limbo was, of course, the stop-gap between the world and heaven. Should a child die, it couldn't go to heaven for lack of a baptism ceremony, bought and paid for; the child would, instead, go to a place that certainly wasn't hell, but it wasn't heaven, either.

It would sit in limbo for an unspecified time and, using unspecified rules, get to be promoted to heaven. In most cases, this transition would be assured with a mundane transfer of goods/money to the priesthood.

This just blows the hell out of "original sin".

Now there is only the confessional to hurdle if a sinner wants to get to heaven.

A good liar should have no problem with that.

Heh.

No good deeds necessary.

No "accepting the Lord Jesus" as your personal savior.

Just a payment that works its' way up to the Pope.

The system has succumbed to populism, yes it has. I think that the hope is that more of the flock will return to help fill the coffers. The flood of escapees shall become a trickle, and those who have left will, with the easy promise of heaven, shall return to the delusion.

My first guess is... it ain't gonna work.

But if it does? (I am not infallible, despite most beliefs....) Well, more power to ya, Pope!

Theology... a soon-to-be-forgotten pseudo-intellectual pursuit.

Last night I wrote about midnight that I was going to bed. And I did. Fruitlessly. I was in and out of bed until about 05:30, when the first light of the dawn was barely visible.

But still, I do feel better than I did yesterday... the neck pain is still there, though. I'm still wanting it to be gone... I'm damned tired of it.

Poor Karen, getting the cold crap. She was snoring most of the night, I can't really blame that for me not sleeping, though, even though that would be the easy answer.

15:44...
Well, damn, we're out of the tornado watch area... seems that the low pressure system has moved more rapidly to the north and east than they thought.

I'm hoping that we do get some rain out of it, though... got some grass seed planted that needs some moisture.

I'm planning on going to sleep before the sun does tonight... or this afternoon. Five hours just plain isn't enough to get me into a Monday morning.

I'm driving to Minneapolis on Wednesday, so there might not be any entries... but I think that the hotel in Minneapolis probably had free internet... in which case there might be a coupla entries. I'll be back on Saturday, if all goes well. I'll be driving the truck and hoping for a tail wind, heh.

And I did buy some cigars today.

Dammit, I thought that I was over that.

And right now, I hear a dove calling through my open window....

17:52...
I just had a long talk with Karen, about her longivity, essentially.

She is still quite likely to outlive me.

MD Anderson has some studies going on which could include her. Proton therapy... some really cool stuff that JD got me to researching.

But if she doesn't... I will still do my best to take care of her kids. And mine, too, of course.

And right now... both of us are really hungry, and we're going out to the Olive Garden to use up a gift card....