Eternity
* beginning with no end.
* defines what is temporal.
* exists and consequently eternal being exists as well.
* forms a spiral.
* game for one to four players, human or computer.
* has no beginning, and no end
  - nothing to do with time
  - one dimension more than time
  - only one dimension - it exists
* is an existence without beginning or end
  - citizenship
  - long and, sometimes, wide
  - made up of ages, and ages of generations
  - opposed to time
  - over and under, before and after, in and around and through time
* is the present moment
  - present, the now that never ends
  - time intervals
  - timeless and present all the time
* long time to live with ashes.
* long, long time.
* means no beginning, end or change
  - that some things are changing all the time
* moves through time, and immortality is an ever-present potential.
* never-ending, infinite line.

Emotional abuse
* IS abuse.
* affects the soul, and the soul is invisible.
* can also coincide with a child's developmental stages and challenges.
* can be active
  - as random as the fallout from a nuclear explosion
  - in the form of repeated verbal attacks
* can be just as damaging as physical abuse
  - debilitating as physical harm
  - more damaging than physical abuse
  - serious and even life-threatening if left unattended
  - verbal or behavioral, active or passive, frequent or occasional
  - cause hypertension, ulcers, depression, and a broken spirit
  - involve threatening, terrorizing, insulting, or inducing fear
  - take place in public or at home
* causes stress or harm to the person.
* devastating, debilitating heart and soul mutilation.
* distorts the process of attachment and affective development.
* escalates to physical abuse.
* happens in all kinds of ways.
* harms self-esteem.
* hurts because it happens over a long time by someone who is important to a child.
* includes behaviors that degrade or make a person feel worthless, helpless or afraid
  - making a child feel rejected, terrorized, berated, humiliated or isolated
  - threats, constant criticism and put-downs
* involves an attack on a child's sense of self.
* is almost always present when other forms are identified
  - behavior that attacks a child's emotional development and sense of self-worth
  - both the most pervasive and the least understood form of child maltreatment
  - consistent and chronic behavior
  - easy to blame on the victim
  - emotional violence
* is just as bad a physical abuse
  - more pervasive than physical abuse and is much harder to identify
* is often a component of physical or sexual abuse
  - hard to detect, so people tolerate it much longer
  - one of the most common and harmful forms of child abuse
  - present in all forms of sibling abuse
  - probably the most common kind of abuse a child suffers
* is sometimes even harder than sexual abuse to define and recognize
  - much more damaging than physical abuse
* is the infliction of anguish, pain or distress through verbal or non-verbal acts
  - most difficult form of child maltreatment to identify
  - systematic diminishment of another
  - thesystematic diminishment of another
  - usually more psychologically damaging than physical abuse
  - verbal assaults, negative moods, family discord and double messages
  - very difficult to categorize and measure
* is, by many victims' opinions, the most damaging form of domestic violence.
* leads to hurt and anger.
* method of control that includes a variety of verbal attacks and humiliations.
* occurs over time.
* pattern of behavior attacking a child's self-worth
  - destructive behaviour or verbal attacks by an adult on a child
* scars the heart and damages the soul.
* takes the form of a systematic degrading of the victim's self-worth.