Showing posts with label The 'Conversations with God' books-Inspired Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The 'Conversations with God' books-Inspired Poetry. Show all posts

Saturday, September 10, 2016

Post No. 141: A Universe is Scripted Like a Play


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A Universe is Scripted Like a Play

A Universe is scripted like a play in a theater—
and all of the souls are
the producers,
the playwrights,
the composers,
the orchestra,
the music,
the instruments,
the actors,
the costumes,
the makeup,
the props,
the theater,
the equipment,
the furnishings,
the stagehands,
the ticket sellers,
the ticket takers,
the owners,
the managers,
the other employees,
the audience,
and the critics too—all
taking part in the
production of life
by playing each
and every one
of the roles in
a scripted production.
Thus, each and every
one of the souls is
participating in a
scripted production
—which appears as if
it is happening
spontaneously,
but it is, in fact,
designed to appear
that way—as each and
every one of the souls
is playing each and
every one of the roles
in the theater called life,
which is known
as a Universe...

-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"

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My Writing About How Universes Are For Transforming Our Close-Minded Strife: Universes are fantasies come to life—and we are all Gods and/or Goddesses using our imaginations for transforming our close-minded strife! –Paul Whiting (written approximately on March 6, 2010, turned into a quote on August 4th, 2022 and revised September 4th, 2022)

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My Writing About How A Universe Is A Fictional Story: A universe is "a fictional story"—or, "a theatrical contrivance"—which is created by the God, and/or the Goddess, who designed that universe. –Paul Whiting (written September 11th, 2014, revised October 13th, 2021, revised April 12, 2022 and revised September 4th, 2022)

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My Writing About The Reality Of Universes: The reality is that universes are fantasies! –Paul Whiting (written September 29th, 2014, revised October 13th, 2021, revised August 4th, 2022 and revised September 4th, 2022)

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My Writing About How Universes Are Fantasies: Universes are fantasies brought to life! –Paul Whiting (written October 19th, 2014, revised August 4th, 2022 and revised September 4th, 2022)

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My Writing About How Universes Are Like Therapeutic Motion Pictures: Universes truly are like therapeutic motion pictures (or, movies) in that Universes are representations of how we think, and feel, about being The Consciousness Of Literally Nothing, which is what we are as Gods and/or Goddesses. –Paul Whiting (written March 27th, 2015, revised September 18th, 2021, revised May 5th, 2022, revised May 6th, 2022 and revised September 10th, 2022)

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My Writing About How Universes Are A Faked Reality: Universes are a real faked reality. –Paul Whiting (written June 5th, 2016 and revised September 4th, 2022)

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My Writing About How Universes Are Like Lucid Dreaming: Universes are like lucid dreaming in three dimensions. –Paul Whiting (written July 10th, 2016 revised July 11th, 2016 and revised September 4th, 2022)

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My Writing About How A Universe Is A Drama: A Universe is a Drama... A Universe is a Fable... A Universe is a Fiction... A Universe is a Myth... A Universe is a Parable... A Universe is a Tale... A Universe is a Story... –Paul Whiting (written September 8th, 2016, revised September 9th, 2016, revised July 28th, 2021 and revised September 4th, 2022)

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My Writing About How A Universe Is Scripted Like A Play In A Theater: A Universe is scripted like a play in a theater—and all of the souls are the producers, the playwrights, the composers, the orchestra, the music, the instruments, the actors, the costumes, the makeup, the props, the theater, the equipment, the furnishings, the stagehands, the ticket sellers, the ticket takers, the owners, the managers, the other employees, the audience and the critics too—all taking part in the production of life by playing each and every one of the roles in a scripted production. Thus, each and every one of the souls is participating in a scripted production—which appears as if it is happening spontaneously, but it is designed to appear that way—as each and every one of the souls is playing each and every one of the roles in the theater called life, which is known as a Universe... –Paul Whiting (written September 9th, 2016, revised September 10th, 2016, revised July 28th, 2021, revised October 16th, 2022 and revised February 1st, 2023)

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My Writing About How Universes Are 'God's Fiction,' Which Is What Produces "The Gravity Of Universes": All Universes are literally fiction that has been written by "The Hand Of God." Then, that fiction is literally trial-and-error rehearsed by "The Soul Of God." Finally, that fiction is literally physically embodied by "The Body Of God." Thus, this entire process of writing, rehearsing and physically embodying 'God's Fiction' is what produces "The Gravity Of Universes." –Paul Whiting (written January 31st, 2023, revised May 21st, 2023 and revised May 23rd, 2023)

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My Philosophical Notes:

The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I am rereading the "Conversations with God" series of books [which I reread from just shortly after June 5th, 2016 to exactly September 12th, 2016]... And I was rereading "Home with God: In A Life That Never Ends" when I read the quotes below on pages 133 to 134, which inspired me to write the poem above:

"As you move down the Corridors of Time, you come to experience that Space/Time is vast. The 'Only Moment There Is' is called the Space/Time CONTINUUM precisely because this space/time reality continues to always be. You, as Pure Spirit, can move through this Singular Reality (sometimes called a Singularity) in endless cycles as you continue to experience your Self. You ARE this Singularity. You are the stuff of which it is made. The Pure Essence. The Energy. You are an individuation of this energy and this Essence. You are an 'Individuation of the Singularity.' The Singularity is what some of you call God. The Individuation is what some of you call You. You can split your Self up and move through the Singularity in many different directions. You call these varying movements through the Space/Time Continuum 'lifetimes.' These are the Cycles of the Self that reveal the Self TO the Self through the Cycling OF the Self THROUGH the Self.

"I am floored here. I've never had anyone explain it all to be like this before.

"Well, it's about Time.

"Oh, how that's cute. You're cute.

"Thank you.

"So now let me see if I can bring this all down to my individual Self, and get some perspective on all this. We human beings are the 'individuation of the singularity experiencing life sequentially simultaneously.

"That's it. You've got it exactly right.

"Are you kidding me? Did you hear what I just said? I just SAID... We are the individuation of the singularity experiencing life sequentially simultaneously.

"Yes, and I just said you've got it exactly right.

"Terrific. I'm in Wonderland here. I've just fallen down the rabbit hole."

And this poem was formerly published on my "Three Dark Horses" and "Small All White in the Forest" blogs, but I decided to only publish "The 'Conversations with God' books-Inspired Posts" on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog, because these posts are more about philosophy and so is this blog.

Thus, this poem was only published on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog.

This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.

-Paulee

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"Conversations with God" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia—which is funded primarily through donations from millions of individuals around the world, including this blogger (I make a totally affordable one-time donation if they are requesting donations when I am on their website):

"Conversations with God (CwG) is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch. It was written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers. The first book of the Conversations with God series, Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, was published in 1995 and became a publishing phenomenon, staying on the New York Times Best-Sellers List for 137 weeks. The succeeding volumes in the nine book series also appeared prominently on the List.

In an interview with Larry King, Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working. After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: 'Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?' Though when he turned around he saw no one there, Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. The ensuing dialogue became the Conversations with God books. When asked in a recent interview how does he 'open up' to God these days, Neale stated 'I am reaching out to touch others with this information. When I reach out and touch others with this information I reconnect immediately with the divine presence.'"

CwG's basic messages:

"In Friendship with God, Walsch writes that God presents four concepts which are central to the entire dialogue:

1. We are all one.
2. There's enough.
3. There's nothing we have to do.
4. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

Existence is essentially non dual in nature. At the highest level there is no separation between anything and there is only one of us; there is only God, and everything is God. The second statement, following from the first, means that we, in this seeming existence, lack nothing and if we choose to realize it, we have enough of whatever we think we need (or the means to create it) within us. The third statement combines the first two to conclude that God, being all there is and is thus always sufficient unto Itself, has no need of anything and therefore has no requirements of humanity. The final concept puts an end to our need to always be right. Given that we have and are everything, and there's nothing we have to do, there are an infinite number of ways to experience this, not just the one way we may have chosen so far..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_God

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This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 141 was edited on August 11th, 2025.

"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]

Friday, September 2, 2016

Post No. 138: God Has Many Names


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God Has Many Names

God has many names
to which God responds
—just like you have many
names to which you respond,
such as birth names, nicknames,
chosen names, familial names,
professional names, and societal
names—since the many names
that God is called apply to the
many ways that God is called.

-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"

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My Writing About How God Has Many Names: God has many names to which God responds—just like you have many names to which you respond, such as birth names, nicknames, chosen names, familial names, professional names, and societal names—since the many names that God is called apply to the many ways that God is called. –Paul Whiting (written September 1st, 2016, revised September 2nd, 2016 and revised October 16th, 2022)

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My Philosophical Notes:

The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I am rereading the "Conversations with God" series of books [which I reread from just shortly after June 5th, 2016 to exactly September 12th, 2016]... And I was rereading "What God Wants: A Compelling Answer to Humanity's Biggest Question" when I read the quote below on page 153, which inspired me to write the poem above:

"Humans will understand that Adonai, Allah, Brahman, Elohim, God, Jehovah, Krishna, and Yahweh are among that many names humans give to The One Thing That Is."

Plus, as I continued reading "What God Wants: A Compelling Answer to Humanity's Biggest Question," I read the quote below on page 206, which supports the poem above:

"There is only One God. What God is this? Is it Adonai? Allah? Elohim? God? Hari? Jehovah? Krishna? Lord? Rama? Vishnu? Yahweh? It's All of Them."

And this poem was formerly published on my "Three Dark Horses" and "Small All White in the Forest" blogs, but I decided to only publish "The 'Conversations with God' books-Inspired Posts" on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog, because these posts are more about philosophy and so is this blog.

Thus, this poem was only published on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog.

This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.

-Paulee

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"Conversations with God" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia—which is funded primarily through donations from millions of individuals around the world, including this blogger I make a totally affordable one-time donation if they are requesting donations when I am on their website):

"Conversations with God (CwG) is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch. It was written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers. The first book of the Conversations with God series, Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, was published in 1995 and became a publishing phenomenon, staying on the New York Times Best-Sellers List for 137 weeks. The succeeding volumes in the nine book series also appeared prominently on the List.

In an interview with Larry King, Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working. After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: 'Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?' Though when he turned around he saw no one there, Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. The ensuing dialogue became the Conversations with God books. When asked in a recent interview how does he 'open up' to God these days, Neale stated 'I am reaching out to touch others with this information. When I reach out and touch others with this information I reconnect immediately with the divine presence.'"

CwG's basic messages:

"In Friendship with God, Walsch writes that God presents four concepts which are central to the entire dialogue:

1. We are all one.
2. There's enough.
3. There's nothing we have to do.
4. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

Existence is essentially non dual in nature. At the highest level there is no separation between anything and there is only one of us; there is only God, and everything is God. The second statement, following from the first, means that we, in this seeming existence, lack nothing and if we choose to realize it, we have enough of whatever we think we need (or the means to create it) within us. The third statement combines the first two to conclude that God, being all there is and is thus always sufficient unto Itself, has no need of anything and therefore has no requirements of humanity. The final concept puts an end to our need to always be right. Given that we have and are everything, and there's nothing we have to do, there are an infinite number of ways to experience this, not just the one way we may have chosen so far..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_God

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This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 138 was edited on August 11th, 2025.

"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Post No. 133: I Believe That We Are All God


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I Believe That We Are All God
(Or, "God Is Who You Are")

I believe that we can all
experience our very own
"Conversations with God."

I believe that we can all
experience our very own
"Friendship with God."

I believe that we can all
experience our very own
"Communion with God."

I believe that we can all live
our very own experience of
"The New Revelations."

I believe that we can all live
our very own experience of
"Tomorrow's God."

I believe that we can all live
our very own experience of
"What God Wants."

I believe that we can all live
our very own experience of
being at "Home With God."

Thus, I believe that we are
all God—because God is who
I am and God is who you are.

-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"

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My Writing About How We Can All Experience Our Very Own 'Conversation With God': I believe that we can all experience our very own "Conversations with God." I believe that we can all experience our very own "Friendship with God." I believe that we can all experience our very own "Communion with God." I believe that we can all live our very own experience of "The New Revelations." I believe that we can all live our very own experience of "Tomorrow's God." I believe that we can all live our very own experience of "What God Wants." I believe that we can all live our very own experience of being at "Home With God." Thus, I believe that we are all God—because God is who I am and God is who you are. –Paul Whiting (written August 24th, 2016 and revised October 16th, 2022)

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My Philosophical Notes:

The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I am rereading the "Conversations with God" series of books [which I reread from just shortly after June 5th, 2016 to exactly September 12th, 2016]... And I was rereading "Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge," when I read the quote below on pages 206 to 208, which inspired me to write the poem above:

"So the New Spirituality is not just turning of the Conversations with God books into a 'new religion.'

"It is anything and everything BUT that. If that's what it was, I would tell you to burn those books and forget them forever. These books have great value—but only as the individual experience of one human being. Taken in that context, their value in inestimable. Turned into the 'official text' or the 'sacred source' of some new form of spiritual expression, they could be dangerous. And so could you.

"I have not intention of becoming dangerous.

"Then you will make it clear wherever you go that the experience you have had, everyone can have, and many have had. You will cause the world to understand that everyone is having 'conversations with God' all the time, and that the question is not To whom does God talk? but Who listens? You will resist every temptation to allow others to place you, or the material you have brought through, into some kind of special category, or to call you or it the 'source' of their spiritual path.

"Believe me, I will resist that. I have been, and I will continue to.

"Good. Because nothing will kill the New Spirituality faster than the idea or impression that it is coming from One Individual Human Source. It IS coming from One Source, but not from one INDIVIDUAL HUMAN source. It is coming from the Single Source that flows through all humans—and indeed, through all of life—everywhere. Because this is true, it will not look exactly the same from person to person. As it emanates through each individual Life Form and is expressed by that Form, it will contain the specific reflection of that Form. It may look and sound and feel very similar, but it will never look and sound and feel identical. If it does, beware. That is a sure sign that dogma has been created.

"I am always reminded that 'dogma' spelled backward is 'am god.' When people get things backward, that's what can happen. They begin to make their dogma their god. Yet it is not dogma which is god, but every living thing.

"Be on guard, then, lest others turn this writing or any other message into dogma—and then that dogma into their god. Look no to one source, but to all sources, and even to all of life, for your definition and experience of the Divine. Reject nothing, but also include everything. Do not say that the truth is exclusively 'here' of exclusively 'there,' but, rather, that the truth is 'neither here nor there,' but every where. It is in the Qur'an and it is in the Upanishads. It is in the Bhagavad Gita, and it is in the Bible. It is in the portions of the Bible called the Torah and called the Psalms and called the New Testament. It is in the Book of Mormon and the Book of Hidden Words. Yet know this: It is found in Whole nowhere, and in Part everywhere. All of those sources, taken singularly, contain incomplete understandings. Therefore, entreat those who would live the New Spirituality to consider every book sacred and every messenger holy, even as they, themselves, are holy, and as the living of their own lives writes the book of their most sacred truth. Remember that always. The living of your own life writes the book of you most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it."

And this poem was formerly published on my "Three Dark Horses" and "Small All White in the Forest" blogs, but I decided to only publish "The 'Conversations with God' books-Inspired Posts" on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog, because these posts are more about philosophy and so is this blog.

Thus, this poem was only published on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog.

This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.

-Paulee

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"Conversations with God" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia—which is funded primarily through donations from millions of individuals around the world, including this blogger (I make a totally affordable one-time donation if they are requesting donations when I am on their website):

"Conversations with God (CwG) is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch. It was written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers. The first book of the Conversations with God series, Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, was published in 1995 and became a publishing phenomenon, staying on the New York Times Best-Sellers List for 137 weeks. The succeeding volumes in the nine book series also appeared prominently on the List.

In an interview with Larry King, Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working. After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: 'Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?' Though when he turned around he saw no one there, Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. The ensuing dialogue became the Conversations with God books. When asked in a recent interview how does he 'open up' to God these days, Neale stated 'I am reaching out to touch others with this information. When I reach out and touch others with this information I reconnect immediately with the divine presence.'"

CwG's basic messages:

"In Friendship with God, Walsch writes that God presents four concepts which are central to the entire dialogue:

1. We are all one.
2. There's enough.
3. There's nothing we have to do.
4. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

Existence is essentially non dual in nature. At the highest level there is no separation between anything and there is only one of us; there is only God, and everything is God. The second statement, following from the first, means that we, in this seeming existence, lack nothing and if we choose to realize it, we have enough of whatever we think we need (or the means to create it) within us. The third statement combines the first two to conclude that God, being all there is and is thus always sufficient unto Itself, has no need of anything and therefore has no requirements of humanity. The final concept puts an end to our need to always be right. Given that we have and are everything, and there's nothing we have to do, there are an infinite number of ways to experience this, not just the one way we may have chosen so far..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_God

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This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 133 was edited on August 11th, 2025.

"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Post No. 128: 'True Believers' Are Willing To Die And To Kill In Order To Be "Right"


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'True Believers' Are Willing To Die
And To Kill In Order To Be "Right"

'True Believers' are willing to
die in order to be "right," since
they believe that they are going
to Heaven because they are "right."

And 'True Believers' are also willing
to kill in order to be "right," since they
believe that the non-believers are going to
Hell because the non-believers are "wrong."

-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"

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My Writing About True Believers Being Willing To Die And To Kill, Version No. 1: 'True Believers' are willing to die in order to be "right," since they believe that they are going to Heaven because they are "right." And 'True Believers' are also willing to kill in order to be "right," since they believe that the non-believers are going to Hell because the non-believers are "wrong." –Paul Whiting (written August 12th, 2016, revised August 17th, 2016, revised October 16th, 2022, revised May 7th, 2023 and revised May 24th, 2023)

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My Writing About True Believers Being Willing To Die And To Kill, Version No. 2: 'True believers' are willing to die and to kill in order to be "right." –Paul Whiting (written August 17th, 2016, revised October 16th, 2022, revised May 7th, 2023 and revised May 24th, 2023)

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My Writing About Religious True Believers, Version No. 1: No one can transform The True Religious Beliefs of The True Religious Believer except for The True Religious Believer. –Paul Whiting (written April 23rd, 2022, revised April 30th, 2022, revised September 14th, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)

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My Writing About Religious True Believers, Version No. 2: No one except for The True Religious Believer can transform The True Religious Beliefs of The True Religious Believer. –Paul Whiting (written April 23rd, 2022, revised April 30th, 2022, revised September 14th, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)

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My Writing About Being Entitled To Be Right, Version No. 1: Because Literally Nothing is all that exists—since Nothing is all that could exist—you cannot be entitled to be right about anything, let alone be entitled to be right about everything. –Paul Whiting (written April 30th, 2022, revised October 16th, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)

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My Writing About Being Entitled To Be Right, Version No. 2: Since Universes are Literally Nothing inverted into a perfectly balanced three part system of negative energy (electrons), positive energy (protons) and neutral energy (neutrons) as contained within vacuousness—because Nothing is all could exist intrinsically—you cannot be entitled to be right about anything, let alone be entitled to be right about everything. –Paul Whiting (written April 30th, 2022, revised October 16th, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)

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My Writing About Being Entitled To Be Right, Version No. 3: Literally Nothing is all that exists due to the fact that Nothing is literally all that could exist. And Universes are Literally Nothing inverted into a perfectly balanced three part system of negative energy (electrons), positive energy (protons) and neutral energy (neutrons), as contained within vacuousness in order to separate the electrons from the protons and neutrons, which is what forms the atoms of gravity. And because Universes are intrinsically Nothing inverted into a Field Of Gravity, you cannot be entitled to be right about anything, let alone be entitled to be right about everything. –Paul Whiting (written April 30th, 2022, revised October 16th, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)

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My Writing About Being Entitled To Be Right, Version No. 4: You cannot be entitled to be right about literally anything, let alone be entitled to be right about literally everything. You see, Universes are Literally Nothing inverted into a perfectly balanced three part system of negative energy (electrons), positive energy (protons) and neutral energy (neutrons), as contained within vacuousness in order to separate the electrons from the protons and neutrons, which is what forms the atoms of gravity. And Literally Nothing is all that exists because Nothing is all that could exist. Thus, Nothing is a never-ending, eternal Field Of Non-Specific Probability Energy—both in terms of the never-ending space that Nothing occupies and the eternal time and Nothing occupies. Therefore, that is why you cannot be entitled to be right about anything, let alone be entitled to be right about everything. –Paul Whiting (written April 30th, 2022, revised October 16th, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)

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My Writing About Finding The Truth Of God As Contained Within 'God's Many True Religions' And Not Just Within 'God's One, True Religion': The Truth Of God cannot be found within only one true religion!

For, in the same way that God has more than one name by which God may be called—such as God, or Goddess, or Ultimate Creator, or Unmoved Mover, or All Things Unto Oneself, or The One, or The Saviour Of All Humankind, or That Which Rises In The East And Sets In The West, or The Truest Truth Seeker, etc.—God has more than one true religion!

Plus, the very same thing can be said regarding God's Many Varieties Of Life, which cannot be contained within only one true species!

So, in the same way that you expect God to provide you with Great Varieties Of Life through many different species within God's Creation, God expects you to understand the Great Varieties Of God's Truth contained within more than one of God's Great Varieties Of True Religion!

And because religion can only be created by God through God's Very Imperfect Instrument Of Human Understanding, there are also many untruths contained within each and every one of God's Many True Religions!

Therefore, it is your job to find the Truth Of God wherever it may exist within God's True Religions, just as much as it your your job to find the Untruths Of Human Misunderstanding wherever they may exist within God's True Religions!

Thus, it is necessary for you to find The Truth Of God wherever it may exist—just as much as it is necessary for you to find the Untruths Of Human Misunderstanding wherever they may exist—as contained within the Great Variety Of God's Many True Religions! Amen!

–Paul Whiting (August 10th, 2025)

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My Philosophical Notes:

The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I am rereading the "Conversations with God" series of books [which I reread from just shortly after June 5th, 2016 to exactly September 12th, 2016]... And I was rereading "The New Revelations: A Conversation with God," when I read the quotes below on pages 174 to 176, which inspired me to write the poem above:

"There are those who say that government should not be controlled by religions, that there should be a strict separation of Church and State. Yet that is a very Western worldview. Other cultures feel that only God should and can be the supreme governor of human affairs and that God's Law, as contained in holy writings and interpreted by religious teachers and jurists, should be the law of the land.

"This is the clash of ideology that I spoke of early in our conversation. It is essentially a clash between human rights and what some people declare to be God's Law. In truth, there is no clash, for freedom is the essence of God, and human rights—personal liberty, equality under the law, and the fairness of trials—are expressions of that essence. Yet there have been religions (there still are today) that do not recognize basic freedoms and equalities as every person's right. According to some religions, as had been noted here already, women are not equal to men. According to certain religions, atheists do not have the right to live. A person who is not a member of the faith cannot testify against one who is. And slavery is permitted.

"No, no... there is no bona fide religious Scripture that fails to condemn slavery.

"You had better read the Bible and the Qur'an more closely. Now when such religious teachings become the law of the land or become the innermost beliefs and 'morals' of a culture, a clash is certain to develop. Especially when those religions seek to make their beliefs the guiding principles of other people. There have always been ideological differences on your planet, but the present widening of the split in ideology with a simultaneous advance in technology has created the conditions for rapid self-destruction.

"Well, here we are again, at the same question. What can we do to stop this?

"It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the annals of human history.

"What?

"You may have to give up some of your most sacred beliefs.

"'I can't. I can't. I would rather die than do that.' That's what some people will say when they read this.

"Then they are going to. Many people are going to die in order to be 'right.' Only when enough human beings die over these ideologies will you decide that maybe it was the ideologies themselves that were mistaken. Your life and your experience will cause you to change your mind, at last, about what is 'right' and 'wrong,' and about 'what works' and 'what doesn't work.'"

And this poem was formerly published on my "Three Dark Horses" and "Small All White in the Forest" blogs, but I decided to only publish "The 'Conversations with God' books-Inspired Posts" on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog, because these posts are more about philosophy and so is this blog.

Thus, this poem was only published on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog.

This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.

-Paulee

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"Conversations with God" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia—which is funded primarily through donations from millions of individuals around the world, including this blogger (I make a totally affordable one-time donation if they are requesting donations when I am on their website):

"Conversations with God (CwG) is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch. It was written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers. The first book of the Conversations with God series, Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, was published in 1995 and became a publishing phenomenon, staying on the New York Times Best-Sellers List for 137 weeks. The succeeding volumes in the nine book series also appeared prominently on the List.

In an interview with Larry King, Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working. After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: 'Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?' Though when he turned around he saw no one there, Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. The ensuing dialogue became the Conversations with God books. When asked in a recent interview how does he 'open up' to God these days, Neale stated 'I am reaching out to touch others with this information. When I reach out and touch others with this information I reconnect immediately with the divine presence.'"

CwG's basic messages:

"In Friendship with God, Walsch writes that God presents four concepts which are central to the entire dialogue:

1. We are all one.
2. There's enough.
3. There's nothing we have to do.
4. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

Existence is essentially non dual in nature. At the highest level there is no separation between anything and there is only one of us; there is only God, and everything is God. The second statement, following from the first, means that we, in this seeming existence, lack nothing and if we choose to realize it, we have enough of whatever we think we need (or the means to create it) within us. The third statement combines the first two to conclude that God, being all there is and is thus always sufficient unto Itself, has no need of anything and therefore has no requirements of humanity. The final concept puts an end to our need to always be right. Given that we have and are everything, and there's nothing we have to do, there are an infinite number of ways to experience this, not just the one way we may have chosen so far..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_God

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This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 128 was edited on August 10th, 2025.

"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Post No. 125: Your Soul's Eternal Life Is Guaranteed


(Image from Seed for the Soul)

Your Soul's Eternal Life Is Guaranteed

Because all souls are the
naturally-occurring vibration
at the very center of Literally
Nothing, your soul's eternal
life is guaranteed—and that
is what really matters! In fact,
you have no choice in the matter
of your soul's eternal life; however,
you do have a choice in the way that
you live your soul's eternal life and
that is all that matters! In other words,
the way that you choose to live your
soul's eternal life is what turns into
the matter of your soul's eternal life...

-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"

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My Writing About How Your Soul's Eternal Life Is Guaranteed: Because all souls are the naturally-occurring vibration at the very center of Literally Nothing, your soul's eternal life is guaranteed—and that is what really matters! In fact, you have no choice in the matter of your soul's eternal life; however, you do have a choice in the way that you live your soul's eternal life and that is all that matters! In other words, the way that you choose to live your soul's eternal life is what turns into the matter of your soul's eternal life... –Paul Whiting (written August 10th, 2016, revised August 11th, 2016 and revised October 14th, 2022)

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My Philosophical Notes:

The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I am rereading the "Conversations with God" series of books [which I reread from just shortly after June 5th, 2016 to exactly September 12th, 2016]... And I was rereading "The New Revelations: A Conversation with God," when I read the quote below on page 75, which inspired me to write the poem above:

"The gender-neutral Bible, these critics say, could 'throw innocent believers and new converts off the track to eternal life...'"

And this poem was formerly published on my "Three Dark Horses" and "Small All White in the Forest" blogs, but I decided to only publish "The 'Conversations with God' books-Inspired Posts" on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog, because these posts are more about philosophy and so is this blog.

Thus, this poem was only published on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog.

This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.

-Paulee

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"Conversations with God" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia—which is funded primarily through donations from millions of individuals around the world, including this blogger (I make a totally affordable one-time donation if they are requesting donations when I am on their website):

"Conversations with God (CwG) is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch. It was written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers. The first book of the Conversations with God series, Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, was published in 1995 and became a publishing phenomenon, staying on the New York Times Best-Sellers List for 137 weeks. The succeeding volumes in the nine book series also appeared prominently on the List.

In an interview with Larry King, Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working. After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: 'Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?' Though when he turned around he saw no one there, Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. The ensuing dialogue became the Conversations with God books. When asked in a recent interview how does he 'open up' to God these days, Neale stated 'I am reaching out to touch others with this information. When I reach out and touch others with this information I reconnect immediately with the divine presence.'"

CwG's basic messages:

"In Friendship with God, Walsch writes that God presents four concepts which are central to the entire dialogue:

1. We are all one.
2. There's enough.
3. There's nothing we have to do.
4. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

Existence is essentially non dual in nature. At the highest level there is no separation between anything and there is only one of us; there is only God, and everything is God. The second statement, following from the first, means that we, in this seeming existence, lack nothing and if we choose to realize it, we have enough of whatever we think we need (or the means to create it) within us. The third statement combines the first two to conclude that God, being all there is and is thus always sufficient unto Itself, has no need of anything and therefore has no requirements of humanity. The final concept puts an end to our need to always be right. Given that we have and are everything, and there's nothing we have to do, there are an infinite number of ways to experience this, not just the one way we may have chosen so far..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_God

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This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 125 was edited on August 11th, 2025.

"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]