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Tue Dec-14-04 12:51 AM
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Do you believe in life after death? If so, where will you go? |
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What / who will you become?
Just wondering.
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Tue Dec-14-04 12:54 AM
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All I know is I sure as heck don't wanna be playing no damned harp for all of eternity. The love had better be flowing freely if you get my drift. I want there to be be nonstop pleasure.
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Tue Dec-14-04 12:55 AM
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for a little while, then another go-around to try and get it 'right'.
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Tue Dec-14-04 12:57 AM
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Tue Dec-14-04 02:23 AM
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i certainly don't wanna play bingo for all eternity :evilgrin:
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Tue Dec-14-04 06:33 AM
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Tue Dec-14-04 12:55 AM
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3. I've been bad, so I figure I'll be the next fat comedian on SNL. |
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Tue Dec-14-04 12:55 AM
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Tue Dec-14-04 12:58 AM
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Tue Dec-14-04 12:58 AM
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7. It has been proven to me, conclusively, that our souls survive |
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In the afterlife. More alive than in this earthly realm.
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Tue Dec-14-04 01:01 AM
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9. Can you elaborate, please? I love conclusive evidence. |
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Tue Dec-14-04 01:02 AM
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12. Took them words right out of my mouth |
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I also love conclusive evidence...
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Tue Dec-14-04 01:30 AM
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15. I could elaborate . . . |
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. . . but I won't. The incident is not something I would share cavalierly on a message board to so many people, as it was obviously directed to me alone. I'm not saying you should believe me. I'm not saying my evidence is scientific. It is, however, conclusive to me.
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:36 AM
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but in that case, you shouldn't even bring it up on a message board and call it "conclusive" -- it's totally meaningless.
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Tue Dec-14-04 01:01 AM
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10. I used to believe it too |
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until I read this. I'm not out to convert you, but give you something to think about. From Skeptical Inquirer: http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-05/near-death-experience.html
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Tue Dec-14-04 01:02 AM
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Tue Dec-14-04 12:59 AM
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8. The 8th Dimension, or Brooklyn |
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Edited on Tue Dec-14-04 12:59 AM by Gothic Sponge
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Tue Dec-14-04 01:04 AM
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But, if there is a life after death, I figure I'll end up in Florida, which would be the greatest Hell I could possibly endure.
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Tue Dec-14-04 01:28 AM
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14. of course there's life after death. just not for the dead guy. |
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the memories of dead people live on in the people they touched during their lives. if you want to call that an afterlife, go right ahead.
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Tue Dec-14-04 01:46 AM
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16. My belief is that the soul is undifferentiated.... |
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The body dies, the personality dies, what we know of our earthly self ceases. But the soul, the Higher Self or whatever you would call it, continues on in an existence that we can only dimly glimpse in this life, as we seek the spiritual truths. My view is that the Higher Self is unified in a way that we experience as love in the earthly realm, but that in the unseen and eternal realm is sustained.
Or maybe it's like the Frisbeeterians, who believe that when you die your soul goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.
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Tue Dec-14-04 01:49 AM
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17. "Of course there is life after death. Elanor Roosevelt is dead and... |
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we're still here"--- Cecil Adams
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Tue Dec-14-04 01:51 AM
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18. Yeah. Because I had... |
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two near death experiences and I know what happens. It's kind of tricky but you don't really "go" anywhere, because, well frankly space and time don't really exist. It's more of a shift and you feel a lot lighter. Dying doesn't hurt and it's not scary once you leave the physical body and all of the mechanisms contained within, that produce fear and pain. Outside the body, you're still you, just without the ego and the polarization of the emotions. It's like the "you" ...you're always trying to get to in life but can't figure out how to be.
Actually calling it dying seems funny because it's really more just changing. You can't identify the physical part of you that makes you consciously aware right now. Even if you look at your brain..you can't say, oh that pink part right there...that's me. It's an energy, a consciousness that isn't just sustained by a body. The body more holds the consciousness, and gives it a context via emotions for a time being. For example if you look at a star you don't think the star is emitting energy because it is contained in some physical object and that object is generating the star's light. You just think it's a star, the energy is sustaining itself. Same thing.
It's much harder to come back into this life, then it is to cross over into the other realm, I'll tell you that much. It feels great outside of the body, constant love and deep, deep peace. Plus you really "get it" that your thoughts create your reality. You lose all questions because first you realize, the second you think of one you already have the answer, but really you're just awestruck at this awesome, brilliant force that is everything and no thing. Humbling doesn't begin to describe it.
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Tue Dec-14-04 02:09 AM
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Hope what you're saying is true, and that it's not just a temporary neurological thing associated with NDE.
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Tue Dec-14-04 02:15 AM
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They both happened over 16 years ago. Just ignore that weird twitching in my left eye... oh and never mind when my hand just flies up into the air for no reason. It's perfectly normal...really. I'm fine. Nothin to see here. Twitch ..twitch.
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Tue Dec-14-04 06:26 AM
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29. Tell us more, please, if you have the time and will to do so |
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I'm not sure how to react to your post
The way you describe death, it is just the sweetest thing
I want to assume as Jarvitude does that what you 'experienced' can be attributed to a neurological phenomenon associated w/ impending brain death...but frankly I don't know where to even try to begin to make sense of this
What is going on here??
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Tue Dec-14-04 02:30 AM
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22. I believe in death after life |
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I'll be dead me, right there wherever they put me.
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Tue Dec-14-04 02:32 AM
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23. Heaven's Here On Earth |
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You can look to the stars in search of the answers Look for God and life on distant planets Have your faith in the ever after While each of us holds inside the map to the labyrinth And heaven's here on earth We are the spirit the collective conscience We create the pain and the suffering and the beauty in this world
Heaven's here on earth In our faith in humankind In our respect for what is earthly In our unfaltering belief in peace and love and understanding
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise Of ordinary people leading ordinary lives Filled with love, compassion, forgiveness and sacrifice
Heaven's in our hearts In our faith in humankind In our respect for what is earthly In our unfaltering belief in peace and love and understanding
Look around Believe in what you see The kingdom is at hand The promised land is at your feet We can and will become what we aspire to be
If Heaven's here on earth If we have faith in humankind And respect for what is earthly And an unfaltering belief that truth is divinity And heaven's here on earth
I've seen spirits I've met angels I've touched creations beautiful and wondrous I've been places where I question all I think I know But I believe, I believe, I believe this could be heaven We are born inside the gates with the power to create life And to take it away The world is our temple The world is our church Heaven's here on earth
If we have faith in humankind And respect for what is earthly And an unfaltering belief In peace and love and understanding This could be heaven here on earth Heaven's in our heart
thank you tracy chapman
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Tue Dec-14-04 03:41 AM
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and I want to go to the South Seas and be an island maiden with several husbands! LOL
Hey a girl can dream. :)
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Tue Dec-14-04 05:17 AM
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26. i've been dead before |
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your soul just exits your body . . . it doesn't go anywhere. very peaceful though.
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Tue Dec-14-04 06:10 AM
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27. Only kinda an opinion.... |
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I've, um, died in dreams three times that I remember, and each time, the experience felt very real and very similar. It was like my mind was slowly being drained of everything. It wasn't unpleasant at all, but I didn't get the impression that it was going anywhere in particular. Just a peaceful, sinking, fading feeling, and then nothing.
But, I mean, it was just a dream. I don't really know why I thought it was relevant.
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Tue Dec-14-04 06:14 AM
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28. I'm not fit for heaven and there's no room left in hell |
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I guess I'll just be reborn as some sort of insect who will lead a brief but agonizing existence
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Tue Dec-14-04 07:37 AM
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31. When I die, I may not go to Heaven, |
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'Cause I don't know if they let fiddlers in. But if they don't, just let me go to Ireland, 'Cause Ireland is as close as I have been.
And I know I will be loosened from the bonds that hold me fast and the chains all around me will fall away at last and on that grand and fateful day I will take thee in my hand I will ride on a train I will be the fisherman.
1. Tanya Tucker (sort of) 2. The Waterboys
:beer: dbt
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Tue Dec-14-04 09:30 AM
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32. Wal-Mart......... To be a door greeter. |
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If I don't straighten up my act.
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Tue Dec-14-04 09:31 AM
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33. I'll become Skinner and go to that great DU gathering in the sky |
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Tue Dec-14-04 09:40 AM
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34. I'm going to be a cat belonging to a DUer |
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Tue Dec-14-04 09:55 AM
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But should know soon enuf.
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Tue Dec-14-04 09:55 AM
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36. I'll be going into limbo, chronostasis, or Old Navy. Not sure yet. |
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Edited on Tue Dec-14-04 09:56 AM by HypnoToad
I'll get back to you after I snuff it. :D
Edit: Spelling. :eyes:
Edit 2: It'll be the Old Navy in New Jersey because everybody knows that New Jersey is Hell...
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