June 2025

But you still dwell in Hell for all of eternity. What good has your empire on earth done you? If your child eventually joins you in Hell, your empire has disintegrated into utter grief. How sad you didn’t realize the vanity of your life until it was too late to walk a different path. Double the grief when your children join you.

Becoming a recluse does so much harm to a believer. Living as an isolated believer deadens him. He eventually falls for the lie that the occasional, complacent, hour-long involvement is sufficient. I lived that way until I discovered the emptiness of it.