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a going home to our friends.

English translation: passing on and meeting up again with our friends in the heavenly realm/heaven

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14:08 Nov 23, 2009

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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature

English term or phrase: a going home to our friends.

Hell is a separation, and Heaven is only a going home to our friends.

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English translation:passing on and meeting up again with our friends in the heavenly realm/heaven

Explanation:
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Note added at 9 mins (2009-11-23 14:17:35 GMT)
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"going home" = "dying" and so "passing on" (a euphemism for dying)

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Note added at 11 mins (2009-11-23 14:19:44 GMT)
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"a going home" indicates the process of dying and moving on to something familiar (in this case reuniting with friends in heaven)

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Note added at 13 mins (2009-11-23 14:22:09 GMT)
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the use of "only" implies that the entire process is nothing strange or unusual .... it could also be rendered as "simply/merely"

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passing on and meeting up again with our friends in the heavenly realm/heaven

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passing on and meeting up again with our friends in the heavenly realm/heaven

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