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Joseph sailed over his mother's desk and cowered behind her, his head under her skirt. Alexander grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and scourged him senseless for being such a wuss. Joseph wailed, terrified and in pain. His mother grabbed the Royal Sledge Hammer and hit Alexander in the nuts before tearing out both of his eyes with her fingernails.

When I was really young, my father took us to see his mother for the first time. I still remember looking up at her face and asking her why she had a moustache?

My cousin managed to top that one though. I won't repeat the actual words, but there's a rather offensive expression in German about Polish people, and I guess someone used it in front of my cousin when he was maybe 4 years old. One day, my aunt took him upstairs to see a neighbour, who happened to be... Polish. My aunt said she almost died when he said it. Lucky for her, the woman barely spoke German.

From the mouths of babes.

Will do. Can you please resend me the link and login details? For some reason they're not in my password manager.

Check out my last big post near the end of page 52 since my thinking on some of these issues have evolved. Also, I'm pretty sure the 1000 years is a symbolic number in Catholicism, meaning a "very long time", and the rule of Christ is already well underway through the institution of the Eucharist.

Coffee's on. I only have decaf, I'm afraid.

Hmm. Out of curiosity, I looked up the actual definition of righteous. Then compared it to virtuous and holy. Depending on which definition/website you read, you get different answers. My favorite was the two sites that had almost exactly the opposite definitions of each other for righteous and holy. A total mess. And Gemini was equally useless.

Basically, I'm trying to decide if the mortal sinners at the end of the trilogy should strive for righteousness or holiness in order to get to that next plane of existence and closer to God.

If someone is trying to live a sinless life, I tend to think of that more as the pursuit of holiness, which is probably the better choice.

Of course, just to keep it interesting, someone online asked is it possible to be holy but not righteous or righteous but not holy. Can anyone suggest examples of those?

Thanks
Dirk

So where did I leave off with regard to Lesser King Constantino? :-)
Some of this may change as I go forward.

I've worked out that the Lake of Fire does punish those passing through it based on how grave their sins were. Those persons are then reunited with their bodies and transported to a place (usually a planet) that reflects their sins. The worse the sins, the worse the planet. The way I intend to remain (mostly?) consistent with Revelation is by taking the position (articulated by the Father, no less) that those planets are "inside" the Lake of Fire and the mortal sinners who were "thrown" into the lake will never return from there. Hence, they are forever being punished in the Lake of Fire. Tada!

I took it a step further as well. They will remain "alive" and must "toil" on their planets until they develop into true righteous beings. Living forever when you have to work every day to feed and clothe yourself, etc., would be a hard life. Thus, the sane ones eventually choose to stop committing grave sins. Soon thereafter, they are able to "die" and enter a higher spiritual plane (though not Heaven) where their thoughts can subtly influence those mortals who remain alive, nudging them toward righteousness. Enough dead (ascended) righteous beings on a planet will slowly transform it into a righteous paradise for those who remain alive. Now repeat that thousands of times, once per planet, and each planet eventually becomes a paradise. Since these once mortal sinners can reproduce, there will be ever more of them, spread across ever more planets (sent to those places by God), until they spread righteousness across the cosmos (this last part is probably over the top, still thinking about it).

Connor asks God whether any of those beings will ever be allowed into Heaven, and the answer is (probably) no, since I want their souls so that the planets on which they lived all turn into paradises. But, the Father tells Connor he's not averse to additional "rescue missions" to lift some of them out of the Lake of Fire (remember, all those planets are, symbolically, in the lake) and into Heaven. Or, perhaps when their planets and inhabitants have been transformed, then the dead can enter Heaven. I currently lean toward the former.

Connor, whose new body is immortal, will have to rule this entire kingdom initially as Lesser King but will eventually send his children, grandchildren, etc. to all those worlds to rule them as Lesser Princes and Princesses on his behalf. The Father tells him to focus on becoming the Shepherd (spiritual leader) of all those beings. He's to help turn all those grave sinners and their descendants into righteous beings. The task will be much easier than trying to turn all humans currently on Earth into righteous beings since demons won't exist on human planets anymore.

During that conversation, Connor jokingly refers to himself as the Unholy Shepherd. But the Father corrects him and calls him the Holy Shepherd, telling him that the Antichrist no longer exists since Connor's old body, bred by Satan, burned up in the lake of fire. When Connor asks if he'll ever get to Heaven, the Father tells him to remember that the Father chooses his champions wisely (meaning yes), which is the line I used in the epilogue from book one.

Satan, as I mentioned previously, is transported to a moon spiralling into the Milky Way's black hole. Some of his demons may go with him, or all demons (except Satan) will go to a hellish world they can never leave. Unless there's a book four. :-)

The End

If you've seen the image of Connor generated by the AI, I decided that's how I ultimately want Connor to look by the end of book 1. However, i intend to keep him as is for the start of the second draft. So, over the course of the book, he undergoes a metamorphosis that parallels the development of his Christ-like powers.

He'll go from:
Green eyes to intense (glowing) blue
Brown hair to blond
White skin to caramel tan
Slim build, not muscular to a very fit, muscular build

All of those are elements of Connor's appearance that he knows how to adjust.

Now since Connor is ridiculously powerful, there's no way Satan could breed all of those abilities into Connor after only 2000 years. Fortunately, God has his own plans for Connor, so he helps speed up the breeding program by giving Satan's "herd" the powers Satan is looking to breed into them. And since zombie De Rosa is originally from the same program, that allows Satan to have many of the same powers as Connor with which to manipulate the physical world.

Except one of Campagna's ancestors is also from that program, which gives Connor a double dose of certain genes, making him more powerful than Satan in the physical world.

Famous guest stars whose names you may know (from Gemini):

Zsa Zsa Gabor - she was great
Dick Martin - wow! I don't remember him on the show, and I'm too lazy to google
Don Rickles - annoying man
Phil Sillvers - fun episode where they put on a performance of Hamlet set to music from records/gramophone they brought with them on the 3-hour tour
Dick Sargent - I know the name, but that's it
Mickey Rooney

The rest of the top 25 list of names I don't recognize at all.

Minor post to move this up in the forum.

Hi, finger. Welcome to the site. I sent you a "quickee" with some info you may find useful.

Ending upon ending upon ending. After Christ crowns Connor the Lesser King, he will also give Connor the title of Unholy Shepherd. The reason? Connor will not only be responsible for ruling all those newly occupied planets, but, infinitely more important, he will be tasked with helping his "flock" (the mortal sinners) get to Heaven. That was always the purpose of the other planets, anyway (i.e. try again!), but this change will make him both king and shepherd. Since the demons will be eliminated (sent into the black hole or to some nasty world where humans will be forbidden to go), things won't be quite as evil the second time around (until the demons escape - book 4?). Although Connor, his mother, and Romano will be among the immortals, the mortal sinners won't be, so there'll always be a need for him and his descendants, who will be incredibly long-lived beings. He'll also be the Immortal Sinner, although I still have to come up with a reason to give him that third title.

It's the real reason God chose Connor for the great deeds he has to achieve -- to prepare him for all of the above in the "afterlife".

Of course, once someone defies God and goes to the planet of the demons, all Hell breaks loose. Literally, lol.