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Hell of a Heaven

Both paradise and hell have their detractors. I find some exaggerated truth in this belief-- one person's paradise is another's hell. An eternity of worshiping an unchanging omnipotent omniscient omnipresent mono-egotistical god is not my idea of healthy re-creation. I have never heard this in reverse-- One person's hell may be required for another's paradise. Heavenly Capital Adoration begins to sound like sexist and xenophobic and anthropocentric rationalizations for rampant capitalism Sublimation as extension, perhaps a corollary, justifying capitalism and slavery, violent settlers' colonialism, systemic racism and straight white male and left brain deductive domination over who is empowered to define and refine and confine and double-bind winners' Paradise v losers' Hell. If paradise is a healthy wealthy place to freely live, And hell is a pathological divested infested under-invested patriarchal chested rapaciously unbreasted place to not be ecofeminist sufficiently, Then losing bad humored, terrifyingly rumored, anti-organically tumored hell is a dualistically shocking way toward winning good humored terrifically enamored, organically amored paradise of integral win/wins; Economic and political Neurological and biological Ecological and geological Egological and theological Secular and sacred Natural and spiritual Space and time ZeroZoned and TaoBalanced. That said, I doubt we are without universal Paradise as absence of Hellish attributes Such as autocracy and kleptocracy, fascism and racism are multiculturally known and felt as hellish. Healthy democracy may not be a monotheist's Paradise, Still, democracy's win/win potential for cooperative ownership and management speaks louder than capitalism's win/lose reductions of ego's participative paradise in omniscient multicultural theocracy.

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