Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
2 min readMar 2, 2023

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I went to look for your library story--I couldn't find it.

Going back to the theme of my writing to a younger audience, a Medium friend of mine who believes in the law of attraction, which I do not because, among other reasons, I hate the corollary that when people don't get what they want or bad things happen to them, it's their fault for not vibrating appropriately or for attracting evil, and my friend said, well what do you believe and how would you explain it to your (non existent) 6 yr old grandchild? I wrote back and published later here, https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/how-do-you-define-god-9898492eae9 ,: "You know those participation trophies that every kid gets for playing T-ball instead of awards for best hitter and best fielder and how that annoys grandpa, well that’s actually how life and heaven work. Everyone gets to go to heaven as a reward for participating in the game of life. Some will play it really well, some ok, and some terribly but they all get to go to heaven. God loves everyone equally and is like your coach. When the game is over and you are in heaven you and God will discuss the game and come up with a plan for you to learn to play better next time. Anyway, things don’t always go well in the game and that’s ok. And sometimes other players cheat and that can hurt you physically and your feelings. Learning how to react to that without cheating yourself is part of playing the game. If things don’t go your way that doesn’t mean God doesn’t love you and it doesn’t mean God is punishing you."

There's much more in that post, if you want to click in.

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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