Great stuff here!! The “should’s” got me thinking about procrastination:
48:5.8 (551.3) One of the purposes of the morontia career is to effect the permanent eradication from the mortal survivors of such animal vestigial traits as procrastination, equivocation, insincerity, problem avoidance, unfairness, and ease seeking. The mansonia life early teaches the young morontia pupils that postponement is in no sense avoidance. After the life in the flesh, time is no longer available as a technique of dodging situations or of circumventing disagreeable obligations.
What’s that last line saying I wonder? There’s still plenty of time.
Bradly, I’m surprised that you question what the UB actually says, or is this one of the areas where it doesn’t say? This last line is straight forward in understanding when one realizes where it has been presented, and in this case it is in the section listed as “5. The Mansion World Teachers”. It also indicates that this line applies to after “the life in the flesh,” not your current understanding of reality in the now. Therefore, if you also read the paragraphs which precede and follow this specific UB quote, one could better understand that in this case, that time, not being available refers to progression forward, and not being willing to just being a tadpole. The reference then to time for an individual, indicates that one does not progress until they get it right, and then can move on to the next stage from their “initial phases of the progression career.” Like, becoming a frog?
Thanks for the response. I did not mean to “question what the UB actually says” but to seek illumination from others as to the meaning. I am aware of the Mansion World connection and life phase for the quote, thank you. My understanding of reality, thanks to the UB, is greater than my experience so far within that reality. I’m sure I’ll be a tadpole until lungs and legs replace gills and tail as my unconscious growth progresses sufficiently by my loyalty and sincerity to seek the spirit within and aspire to ultimate destiny potential…fusion is but another step along the Paradise Path, if indeed a glorious moment!
As to “not progressing until they get it right”; an interesting proposition that….it is my understanding that intention to progress combined with the motive to love and serve will always result in progress of one kind or another and that there is much progress to be made in balancing and harmonizing multiple aspects of being and experience which result in an increasing experiential wisdom and enlarged perspective of reality. It is true that each circle is attained by some weight, measure, and evaluation of our Thought Adjuster who knows of a certainty when sufficient progress is accomplished which is finally recognized by actual fusion….and that this will always happen, regardless of the time it takes, if we but resist not these gentle urgings forward during our tadpoleness.
Bonita…you still crack me up….the 3 choices one has for responding to insult/evil are a ponderment for sure. The Master taught we are not to simply avoid or even resist such evil or cleverness but to find some form of response that returns good in some form as the response of choice. Not easy. Avoidance, surrender, or abandoning the encounter are poor ways to demonstrate courage and faithfulness. We must do better than being more clever than those who assail us and we cannot let ourselves betray the truth of a situation either. A quandary.
I disagree with the notion that there is ever a shortage of time….here or there. The explanation Bonita gave is excellent – it is the abuse of time that is a false luxury that does not exist which does not mean there is any hurry….it is not the speed but the direction of progress which matter I think. Half our time in the next life is leisure, respite, reversionary time. On a world of L&L, only 1-2 hours of “work” or employment per day is necessary to make a “living” and pay our “taxes” of 10% which runs the administration of a whole world. The text says, as I now understand it, that time “…as a technique for…dodging…and circumventing…”; it does not say “time” is short….but procrastinating and avoidance don’t find any form of tolerance or indifference. It will be pointed out and addressed and corrected.
There is no time shortage. We will learn great skills and express great talents…that take great time to develop and express. We will work with the artisans to design and build magnificent gardens and edifices and we will learn that which will not fit into a thousand Urantia Books about the same topics of history, science, cosmology, relationship, etc. Oh yes…..there’s lots of time!!!! Along with mercy credits, patience, and most excellent teachers, guides, companions, and helpers….not to mention fellow tadpoles and then fellow frogs along the whole glorious adventure!!
Sorry to get off the conscience topic Bonita. My point on procrastination is that in myself it tends to create a sense of guilt and irresponsibility until I actually deal with whatever I am avoiding. Should have said so earlier but it seems everyone (or mostly) got the connection. = )
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
