Claim. A seventy-to-eighty-year lifespan is desperately short relative to the immensity of restoration work; a billion years would still not suffice, so urgency about every day is the proper religious affect.
Elaboration. SMM makes urgency a function of cosmic scale, not pious sentiment: “Today people live for only seventy to eighty years. Our heart knows that our lifetime is too short to allow us to restore all the realms of goodness that entangled in history. Even a billion years would still not be enough” (1.1. We cannot foresee our immediate future, 155-27, 1964.10.6). The arithmetic is sobering: subtract sleep, meals, social obligations, and “we only spend seven years really living our lives” (1.4. Life is too short, 49-336, 1971.10.24). The disproportion between task and time creates the pressure: “Life on this earth is but an instant. It is like the ten months you spend in your mother’s womb” (ibid, 143-333, 1986.3.21). This grounds the urgency of indemnity work and witnessing not in fear-of-judgment but in scale-recognition — earthly life is too small a container for the work, so the work must be intensified, not extended.
See also. csg-sins-must-be-indemnified-on-earth-not-in-the-spirit-world