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Robert_Sock
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Our minds are free to roam, but only a short distance in any direction until the chain connected to our shackles loses its slack. Yes, in some ways our shackles prevent us from reaching higher-ordered meanings of love while in this world, but in other ways they protect us from falling, as innocent victims, into a devouring pit of evil. And so we are constrained due to our human nature that makes us vulnerable to the forces of evil. But in the End, an end that we will all experience soon enough, we will exit from our land of slavery by freely choosing between two gates: The Upper Gate of LOVE, or the Lower Gate of Sin. We who struggle in this life to experience love will eagerly struggle to reach the light leading to the Upper Gate. Once beyond this gate our shackles will be completely removed and every trace of past pain and sin will vanish. Within a heavenly spirit of humor, everyone will then clearly see that the troubles and hardships experienced during this life were a part of a righteous sacrifice that allows for everlasting love, peace, and happiness. However, as if having been born into this world the first time was not traumatic enough, those who persistently tug in the direction of sin will eagerly seek the darkness of the Lower Gate that will lead to slavery anew. And so it will be with the evilhearted until they experience a state of existence with a heat hot enough to melt their heart of stone.