Tuesday, April 10, 2018

In-Service


At the heart of much speculative fiction (and fiction in general) is a question. What if? On Tuesdays I like to throw one out there and see what you make of it. Do with it as you please. If a for-instance is not specified, feel free to interpret that instance as you wish. And if you find this becomes a novel-length answer, I'd appreciate a thank you in the acknowledgements. ðŸ˜‰

What if our lives here are a training for a celestial promotion?

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27 comments:

  1. Maybe that's exactly what our lives here are for. Maybe we're in training here, going through a series of challenges, so we are prepared for or worthy of whatever is in the next life.

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  2. Oh boy....I would be on the junk collector ship or some ugly grey cloud

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  3. It better be one hell of a promotion for me to have to deal with all this.

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  4. I got to thinking, a while back, that maybe people who suffer horribly are in the next-life equivalent of Navy Seal training. Maybe others are just in regular basic training. And people who die young didn't need much training. Who knows? Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com

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    1. Or people who die young came in to be instructors...

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  5. That would be pretty cool. I'm all for anything after death.

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  6. I think that is what they are! I'm in training to be a head angel.

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  7. I can't get the words In-Service out of my head. We have the realtor's equivalent tomorrow-8 hours of Continuing Education. What if I sleep in?

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    1. Sorry, didn't mean to create an "earworm"...

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  8. Like promotion for angel position? haha.....well, pretty sure that will not be me!

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    1. oops...forgot, yes here in the south we do rustic weddings with dressy dresses and cowboy boots!

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    2. The cowboy boots kind of made the ensemble...

      Sure, promotion to an angel position. Why not?

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  9. Haha...sounds an interesting in-training!

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  10. Sounds sort of like a traditionalist Christian's heaven. ~grin~ I hope there is some sort of adventure in store! Be well, my dear.

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    1. I see it as more of a New Agey thing, but what do I know?

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  11. You mean like if we chose this particular life to go through lessons and challenges to improve our eternal spirit/soul? I'm failing.

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  12. I mean, that's kind of what we're taught in church more or less.

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*Exception: I do not respond to "what if?" comments, but I do read them all. Those questions are open to your interpretation, and I don't wish to limit your imagination by what I thought the question was supposed to be.