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Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by Hopeforeveryone
reply to post by akushla99
Here's the thing - i just don't know and I think, but do not know, that nobody else really "knows". If you really did know and could prove it suficiently then well done and i will be the first to become your follower. There may even be a buck or two in it for us !
Ha ha...here's one way...have a near-death/death EXPERIENCE!
That way...is the 'proof'! (for you).
Akushla
But what if in a near-death experience, you are shown something that isn't the Truth, so you will continue confuddling the masses?
I'm kNot saying yours was like that, but many have been, like that boy that died and went to heaven, met his dead grandfather, who told him things that he couldn't have known by himself. That was a setup!
This whole thing you call Life is a setup.
Ribbit
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by Hopeforeveryone
reply to post by akushla99
Here's the thing - i just don't know and I think, but do not know, that nobody else really "knows". If you really did know and could prove it suficiently then well done and i will be the first to become your follower. There may even be a buck or two in it for us !
Ha ha...here's one way...have a near-death/death EXPERIENCE!
That way...is the 'proof'! (for you).
Akushla
But what if in a near-death experience, you are shown something that isn't the Truth, so you will continue confuddling the masses?
I'm kNot saying yours was like that, but many have been, like that boy that died and went to heaven, met his dead grandfather, who told him things that he couldn't have known by himself. That was a setup!
This whole thing you call Life is a setup.
Ribbit
What?...based on one story?
Are you setting me up?
Am i setting you up?
I've revealed nothing that would try to 'convince' anyone of anything. All i have maintained is that personal experience will 'prove' whatever it is that appears paradoxical.
Akushla
Good day, searchers...have a good one...
Peace
Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by Hopeforeveryone
reply to post by akushla99
Here's the thing - i just don't know and I think, but do not know, that nobody else really "knows". If you really did know and could prove it suficiently then well done and i will be the first to become your follower. There may even be a buck or two in it for us !
Ha ha...here's one way...have a near-death/death EXPERIENCE!
That way...is the 'proof'! (for you).
Akushla
But what if in a near-death experience, you are shown something that isn't the Truth, so you will continue confuddling the masses?
I'm kNot saying yours was like that, but many have been, like that boy that died and went to heaven, met his dead grandfather, who told him things that he couldn't have known by himself. That was a setup!
This whole thing you call Life is a setup.
Ribbit
What?...based on one story?
Are you setting me up?
Am i setting you up?
I've revealed nothing that would try to 'convince' anyone of anything. All i have maintained is that personal experience will 'prove' whatever it is that appears paradoxical.
Akushla
Good day, searchers...have a good one...
Peace
Then what if it was meant to confuddle you instead?
Again, I'm kNot saying it has, because you have kNot revealed your personal experience, so I cannot say either way, I am just saying . . . What if?
Ribbit
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by Hopeforeveryone
reply to post by akushla99
Here's the thing - i just don't know and I think, but do not know, that nobody else really "knows". If you really did know and could prove it suficiently then well done and i will be the first to become your follower. There may even be a buck or two in it for us !
Ha ha...here's one way...have a near-death/death EXPERIENCE!
That way...is the 'proof'! (for you).
Akushla
But what if in a near-death experience, you are shown something that isn't the Truth, so you will continue confuddling the masses?
I'm kNot saying yours was like that, but many have been, like that boy that died and went to heaven, met his dead grandfather, who told him things that he couldn't have known by himself. That was a setup!
This whole thing you call Life is a setup.
Ribbit
What?...based on one story?
Are you setting me up?
Am i setting you up?
I've revealed nothing that would try to 'convince' anyone of anything. All i have maintained is that personal experience will 'prove' whatever it is that appears paradoxical.
Akushla
Good day, searchers...have a good one...
Peace
Then what if it was meant to confuddle you instead?
Again, I'm kNot saying it has, because you have kNot revealed your personal experience, so I cannot say either way, I am just saying . . . What if?
Ribbit
Befused and confuddled kinda assumes a befusee or a confuddlee, unless i did this to myself, which then brings into kwestion anything and everything i experience...and while I understand completely the notion that we can fool ourselves into anything, and I will always be the one to play the devils advocate...
My kwestion to you or any who would mount the devils horse is,
Do you kwestion every experience you pass through with the same 'ridden' mien? And if so, what are you sure of?
Cheers
Akushla
Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by bottleslingguy
You are not conscious of what is going on when you are dead. What does it matter if the ego isn't around to give your energy a coherent individual identity? Knowing I'll return back to the One Soul (just made that term up) makes me feel all warm and cozy, but I like the consciousness of the now.
You're actually very close to the Truth!
Instead of the One Soul, it's the One Consciousness of God/Source! As a Soul, you exist as One Soul, with a Soulmate you were born with and are linked to for an eternity, but in Soulstate, you are connected to the One Consciousness. Here, in your current form, you are disconnected from Source, that's why you cannot remember where you came from but if you could, you wouldn't dew exactly what you have done, because you would know WE are recording EVERYTHING you dew!
WE are the Borg. You will be Assimilated! Resistance is Futile!
Ribbit
Originally posted by smithjustinb
Its simple.
Before you were born, you were dead, and now you are alive. So when you die again, it makes perfect logic sense that you will have another opprotunity for life.
Now, that doesn't mean that there is a heaven or hell, it simply means there is definitely life after death as before this life, you were dead, or not alive (same thing), and now you're alive. Life after death.edit on 6-10-2011 by smithjustinb because: (no reason given)
To put it another way using different words:
There is non-existence before and after life. The fact that non-existence preceded life implies the FACT that life can arise from non-existence. Since this is the case, then the period of non-existence after this life has the opportunity for another life arising. It's simple and it's obvious.edit on 6-10-2011 by smithjustinb because: (no reason given)edit on 6-10-2011 by smithjustinb because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by hdutton
Allow me to impart a little real life experience into this discussion.
Twice I was pronounced "dead" and yet I live today. While I was "dead", I had no near death experience.
No bright lights, no long dark tunnels. For me the lights went out ... then the lights came back on.
I am not saying this is the true case for everyone, it was just my experience. I have no idea if there is any meaning or message to be learned from my account. I am just relaying my experience.