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The purpose and ultimate destiny of human life.
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:04 pm
by _logjamislds
I've written a book on the meaning of life and mankind's ultimate destiny. It's called, "Becoming Human in the Cosmos: The Purpose and Ultimate Destiny of Human Life". It's by me, Lee Hazelle, available on Amazon Kindle for $5, but, if I understand correctly, Amazon now has a "borrowing" policy that, like a library, lets you borrow the book for a certain amount of time free of charge. I would appreciate feedback / reviews, for those who have time to kill. (It's about 130,000 words, contains a lot of L.D.S., shall we say "ideas" as opposed to doctrine, as well as some non-L.D.S. insights from the realms of near-death experiences, science and past life regression hypnosis, apocrypha, wisdom literature and anything else I felt would add to the theme. There's a lot of Nibley in it.)
Know what I like about this religion? I have a quote from Professor Nibley, somewhere, so I'll have to paraphrase: "In the Mormon religion, we're allowed to guess, but we aren't allowed to preach." This book is my "guess" as to what's going on with us and God in the Cosmos.
Re: The purpose and ultimate destiny of human life.
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:19 pm
by _just me
Welcome to the forum!
I'm going to post the
product description from Amazon so people don't have to click over if they don't want.
Product Description
We are close and dear friends, perhaps soul mates. We can tell each other anything. We’ve known each other for decades, and have born each other’s joys, sorrows, losses and gains. I know what you’re going to say before you open your mouth; you know what I’m going to say, and I can tell by the way you roll your eyes. It is night after a picnic, or perhaps a barbecue. We are full, happy, at peace, lying on our backs in the grass, gazing up at a moonless, star-strewn desert sky. You ask, “What is this all about? This Cosmos? Where did I come from, why am I here, where am I going? What is the purpose of life?” And I answer:
“Becoming Human in the Cosmos: The Purpose and Ultimate Destiny of Human Life”
130,000+ words. An Introduction plus ten chapters. It is the first book to combine, in one whole work, scripture and apocrypha, (books contemporary with scripture, but not in the canon), near death experiences, theoretical physics, biology, new age, philosophy and wisdom literature. The blind men each had their portion of the elephant: this book puts the animal together. (Or, Frankenstein’s monster!)
Along with the above, I tackle such considerations as “Will there be mosquitoes in Heaven?”, “Can God make a rock that He can’t lift?”, “Why no one in Heaven has to go to the bathroom”, “The number of earth-type planets in the universe”, “Space pirates”, “How evolution, creation and re-incarnation all come together”, and “Did God have sex with Mary?”, among others. The Cosmos and our eternal lives are way too complex to be taken seriously. This book mirrors the smile that we all hope is on God’s face.
Personally, I'd really like to know how you conclude that people don't have to pee in heaven!
Re: The purpose and ultimate destiny of human life.
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:28 pm
by _zeezrom
We are allowed to think about stuff quietly but we can't speak, write, or sign any of these thoughts to anyone else. How damn sad!
Are you sure that is a good thing? It sounds terribly sad to me.
But I like your style. I also love to think about God in potentially unorthodox ways.
You know what would make God really cool? If, after we die, we could go sit down together at a picnick table, open up a lunch box and thermos, and start chatting and eating PB&J.s and coffee (or cocoa, if he turns out to be a Mormon God). If he can't do those simple things, then ho-hum, I say.
Re: The purpose and ultimate destiny of human life.
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:34 pm
by _Blixa
Space Pirates?
Re: The purpose and ultimate destiny of human life.
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:12 pm
by _logjamislds
To the good people kind enough to check out my book and make comments: thank you!!! It is appreciated. I wrote this thing 4 years ago and have had no traction or feedback yet except from my family, with such comments as "too wordy", "Nightmare to edit", and "It's the book no one wants to read." A prophet is not without honor save within his own home and family. Sigh.
Anyway: Why people don't have to "pee" in heaven: it was based on just one report from a near-death experience where a person noticed that the clothing he was given had no fly. I drew numerous unauthorized and irrelevant conclusions from that.
Sad that we can "guess but not preach"? I don't think so. I doubt this book will ever get me in any kind of serious trouble with the L.D.S. church, unless I take it into Gospel Doctrine and try to force its questionable conclusions on the class instead of the lesson material, or claim that this is what the L.D.S. church teaches. I denounce that right in the first few paragraphs of the introduction. Ditto on the picnic with cocoa, p.b. and J.
"Space pirates!" Love the picture. Thanks!
As to posting the product description: Thanks! I'm a technophobe of the first water, and would never have thought of that, let alone be capable of it. I hope I'm not screwing up this post and reply stuff. I don't mean to slight anyone.
Re: The purpose and ultimate destiny of human life.
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:35 pm
by _Quasimodo
just me wrote:Welcome to the forum!
I'm going to post the
product description from Amazon so people don't have to click over if they don't want.
Product Description
We are close and dear friends, perhaps soul mates. We can tell each other anything. We’ve known each other for decades, and have born each other’s joys, sorrows, losses and gains. I know what you’re going to say before you open your mouth; you know what I’m going to say, and I can tell by the way you roll your eyes. It is night after a picnic, or perhaps a barbecue. We are full, happy, at peace, lying on our backs in the grass, gazing up at a moonless, star-strewn desert sky. You ask, “What is this all about? This Cosmos? Where did I come from, why am I here, where am I going? What is the purpose of life?” And I answer:
“Becoming Human in the Cosmos: The Purpose and Ultimate Destiny of Human Life”
130,000+ words. An Introduction plus ten chapters. It is the first book to combine, in one whole work, scripture and apocrypha, (books contemporary with scripture, but not in the canon), near death experiences, theoretical physics, biology, new age, philosophy and wisdom literature. The blind men each had their portion of the elephant: this book puts the animal together. (Or, Frankenstein’s monster!)
Along with the above, I tackle such considerations as “Will there be mosquitoes in Heaven?”, “Can God make a rock that He can’t lift?”, “Why no one in Heaven has to go to the bathroom”, “The number of earth-type planets in the universe”, “Space pirates”, “How evolution, creation and re-incarnation all come together”, and “Did God have sex with Mary?”, among others. The Cosmos and our eternal lives are way too complex to be taken seriously. This book mirrors the smile that we all hope is on God’s face.
Personally, I'd really like to know how you conclude that people don't have to pee in heaven!
Perhaps, just me, this could be a good explanation for where rain comes from. A heavenly "trickle down theory". Could also answer some questions on the recent "rainbow" thread.
Re: The purpose and ultimate destiny of human life.
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 2:10 am
by _logjamislds
Your comment makes me think . . . that I'm glad I live in Arizona where we're in the middle of a 12 year drought . . . and that maybe I ought to invest in an umbrella, just in case you're right!
Re: The purpose and ultimate destiny of human life.
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:15 am
by _zeezrom
Ah, I know exactly why they didn't have a fly in the pants. They were TK Smoothies. A fly wouldn't help much because you sort have to just pull the pants all the way down to pee. Their pants have elastic around the waist. Such is the style of the TK.
Are you sure you want to go there?
Re: The purpose and ultimate destiny of human life.
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:18 pm
by _logjamislds
Maybe I should have been more specific; it wasn't pants, but rather a jumpsuit type. To "pull it down", he would have had to wrestle his entire upper body through the neck opening, which he described as "snug". An inconvenience I don't think we'd find in Celestial realms. (Maybe that's hell: having to go to the bathroom, but no way out of ones clothing.) Anyway. No, I still don't think one has to "go to the bathroom" in Heaven, and, as I explain in the book, the reasons behind this have to do with nuclear physics. If this doesn't earn me a ticket to the looney bin, nothing else I write ever will! Yours for fun in discussion as we stretch both our minds and imaginations. Lee H.