Anyone non-religious here? Please be nice!

[Melissa034]

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So you believe when you die, your soul dies too? and do you believe you have a spirit?

 

[Organics North]

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TT, I enjoy your thinking..What do you do in Thailand? My nefew, spent last year in Chai Mai teaching English. This year he is in Cambodia. A good friends wife is from Chai Mai also.

Here is something to ponder: "IT" which has as many names as there are cultures. "IT" exists within us and everything else in the universe. We the elements of physical form can and do "resonate" with "IT" to create things in our minds and others minds. Those with good discipline can begin to effect the physical elements which our universe is made up of.

So devils, angles, gods, goddess, fairies, leprechaun.... All mostly mental creations of the mind or of the groups collective thought. It is our physical beings belief in these mental senses, that can create physical effects... ie the placebo effect as one pertinent example. "believe" the pill will help you and it does. Yep documented and scientific..

ON

 

[Melissa034]

I do better to rely on my own life experience anything can be documented, and science, well I guess thats why Doctors practice, its not exact, any always changing sometimes forward sometimes backwards.

 

[deb1]

Ewesheep brought up an interesting subject. I used to worry about what happened to us when we die. Now, I don't.

It might seem strange to some but I find comfort in the words, "I don't know." I think that we might have a soul that exists after our deaths but I don't know for certain. That doesn't bother me a bit. None of us can know if there is a higher being or not. If there is a God, I can't imagine an all powerful spirit really caring what whether we worshipped him/her/it or not. And if there isn't a God then I am all right with that fact also. Either way, God's existence or nonexistence doesn't really impact who I am or how I live my life.

 

[thaiturkey]

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TT, I enjoy your thinking..What do you do in Thailand? My nefew, spent last year in Chai Mai teaching English. This year he is in Cambodia. A good friends wife is from Chai Mai also.

Here is something to ponder: "IT" which has as many names as there are cultures. "IT" exists within us and everything else in the universe. We the elements of physical form can and do "resonate" with "IT" to create things in our minds and others minds. Those with good discipline can begin to effect the physical elements which our universe is made up of.

So devils, angles, gods, goddess, fairies, leprechaun.... All mostly mental creations of the mind or of the groups collective thought. It is our physical beings belief in these mental senses, that can create physical effects... ie the placebo effect as one pertinent example. "believe" the pill will help you and it does. Yep documented and scientific..

ON

Hi ON and thanks.

I'm retired but still available for consultancy work if there's a short term contract that interests me. I spend too much time on the internet in the heat of the day. My wife is Thai and has a traditional silk business and makes wholesale packs of local rice noodles with the most amazing sauce. We now have 9 turkeys and 22 eggs to care for. After the rigours of watching other people work, I usually settle with my wife in our thatched gazebo at the back of our land and watch the turkeys settle down for the night in their coop as the sun sets. I pay my respects to the local brewery and ice factory (beer is no good without ice here) and contemplate the universe as the stars appear. Eventually the thought hits me that I'm getting older but have not yet run out of things I want to learn and do while there is still time. Then we go indoors and watch a movie.

I bless our decision to live in the country and not among the many city expats., many of whom drink away their remaining years in the bars.

I can relate to much that you wrote in your previous post. Our unconscious mind is much more powerful than we are led to believe and it is there that we create our own reality. Give it a free rein and the most amazing things can come to us.

 

[Organics North]

Inspiring EweSheep.. Thank you for sharing.
The near death experience is very interesting to me. The warm light.. I am fascinated with the sensation of a warm light that you had. I find it interesting because occasionally I get a sense or "feeling" of a warm sparkling "golden" light, when in a place where someone has passed away.

ON

 

[thaiturkey]

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I believe in angels. They are people who owed me nothing who came to me at the lowest times in my life and held me until I could stand again, asking nothing in return from me.

I have a very good friend in England who was very ill in hospital when she was three years old. She could have died. For a reason that she never understood, even her parents weren't allowed to visit her for weeks. Every night, a West Indian nurse sat beside her, held her hand and talked to her until she eventually began to recover. My friend to this day has in her sitting room a small statue of a black lady in a nurse's uniform that she found somewhere. She said to me many times, 'That is my angel. She saved my life and I never knew who she was'.

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

I, too, have come face to face with my own end a couple of times. Once was after having been shot. They gave me a med in an IV drip to "stabilize" me for the trip to the field hospital and within seconds I KNEW it was the wrong thing. I even told them so before I lost consciousness. As I came back I could hear voices and see lights. Turned out to be the crash team reviving me with the paddles.

The second time was also indirectly because of a med--an overdose this time. I was supposed to get 0.5 mg and the pharmasist mate gave me 5 mg instead. Made me so loopy that I fell overboard and then couldn't tell up from down so couldn't find the surface. Fortunately somebody saw me go over and sounded an alarm. But it takes time to stop a ship that size and I'd pretty much bought the farm. Again with the bright lights and voices--except this time they were giving me CPR.

Both times I came back with the certainty that there ain't nothing else folks. Just darkness and nothingness--not even fear. So I do not fear death. I just hope I really do get to be fertilizer in somebody's garden or something equally as useful and not filled with bug juice and sealed in a coffin, which is a really wasteful thing to do IMO and a waste of all those good nutrients!

Rusty

 

[redhen]

I dont fear the "after" death part.... because i simply know that there is nothing else...
What i fear is the HOW.. how am i going to die? Firey car wreck... heart attack.... stroke... I dont like pain..

 

[CindyB]

I was so sure that I was not the only one that believed this way. I have always wondered if there was a "god" or not since I was about 10 years old. The things that I heard being preached at church just never made sense to me. My mother died when I was 5 years old and then my father died 10 months later. In my young mind, I always wonder why "god" would let that happen. I was never mad at "god" cuz I wasn't sure if there really was a "god" to be mad at. I had a perfect childhood. My grandparents raised me and they were the best. Now I am a wife, mother, grandmother and I have a wonderful family. I didn"t take my kids to church ( or baptise them) but they went to church with their friends. They were able to see the way other religions believed. To this day my kids will thank me for giving them the opportunity to explore the world of religion for themselves.