The World's Weirdest Deaths

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BeautyForAshes4 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:36:51 GMT

"All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ. " The late singer Keith Green

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Monkey Toes — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:44:35 GMT

God and religion are another way to control the population

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Monkey Toes — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:42:55 GMT

NO MOE RELIGIOUS COMMENTS / I AGREE ALSO THAT THIS IS NOT THE PLACE/ BY THE TIME I WAS DONE READING ALL THE RELIGION I FORGOT WHAT THE ARTICLE WAS EVEN ABOUT

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Jonathan B — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:36:49 GMT

I think the weirdest deaths are the ones who do not stick, namely near death expeiences.

I died at the age of 26 from an episode of rheaumatic fever. I had just been discharged from the military, and had went to my grandparents to recouperate from a persistant illness that had hit me during my last day on base.

After three days of a steady 105 degree fever, and no effective medication, and a terrible joint pain throughout my body, I became aware of a black mist in the corner of my room near the ceiling, and as this black mist moved toward me like a sheet, I lost all feelings in my legs, torso, and arms, so I felt like a disembodied head and chest.

A small voice in my mind told me that if I did not do something quick, the mist would reach my heart and I would die. I prayed harder than at any time in my life, since I had been a christian since childhood, and asked Jesus to save me, so that I could finish my purpose in life, and be there for my younger sister, who was 9 at the time.

When the mist hit my heart, I felt myself leave my body, and shatter like a crystal goblet, with all my memories leaving me, and then I felt a reversal of the process, as a presence I believed to be Jesus, put me back together, and ack in my body. My fever was gone, and the pain had left my body, and I was able to get up and move around for the first time in three days.

I might have assumed that this experience was some kind of fluke, or hallucination, but when I was 52, I experienced a mishap at a dentist in which I was given no oxygen during anesthesia, and went into convulsions, and stopped breathing, and, from my point of view, died again.

I seemed to be in the dark for a while, with that same voice talking to me, until the dentist was called, and brought me back by turning the oxygen on.

I do not know why I live through things like these, and others die so easily, but that is what I experienced.

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Conscious Evolution — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:34:27 GMT

Part Two

That is the power of choice, we choose what we are, and we literally create our own reality together and separate! All the time you hear people blaming God for this blaming God for that and my only response is this. We live in a Universe of supreme Love. Everything is Love, yet in order to understand that love we must as spirits, enter a reality that has loves opposite in order to experience what we truly are. Without Hate how could we thrive with the essence of courage? Without Fear how could we truly Love? Without Pain how could we know pleasure? Without Sorrow where would we experience Bliss? Without Greed how could we experience Generosity? Without Illness who would know the joy of being a Healer? Universal being is perfect in Harmony with all things. It is only Human Perception that is flawed and cannot grasp the perfection of what is. Yet in a way it is meant to be like this. For without great challenges how could we obtain the Glory that is our most Sacred Quest? We as people, deep in our souls all desire Glory of an ultimate nature, we all feel our quests calling. Most people have simply been conditioned to ignore this and accept society’s reality. This is the greatest Irony, we know so little but believe that we are all there is, what could possibly be beyond? "Our perception of Death is like a horizon, and like a horizon it only goes as far as the eyes can see, but we all know there is more beyond, we have only forgotten this fact," And with that I am out.

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Conscious Evolution — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:34:06 GMT

There are more angles than we can count when it comes to describing the infinite mystery that is Life. As one of my favorite sayings go... "Life is not an eternal Search for God; Life is an eternal expression of God." Religion is a series of human beliefs and conceptions that are based upon the limited perception of Fear and retribution. The biggest mistake in religion, (at least that I see) is that we create a God that is a replica of an all powerful Human. To say it another way, we take a quick to anger, selfish, aggressive and vengeful human give him super powers and call him GOD, that is the essence of most Religions. If you want a true sense of how vast and expansive the Universe is take this perception. At any given time the Human Being has over 27 trillion cells who are (very conscious and capable of making their own choices) working simultaneously to create and maintain... YOU, a divine unique identity conscience of its own existence. How marvelous is that? Now if 27 trillion cells do that for us, imagine what we do for GOD! Imagine that the Earth is a single cell in the universe, and every planet is a cell with its own unique properties, the only deference between the planets and our own cells is a few rungs in the evolutionary ladder. These Planets (Cells) Make up a being of even higher conscience, one that we cannot even imagine, I mean can our cells comprehend us? And this immense being has trillions of its own company making up an even larger more immense Conscious! Do you see where this is going? That's how much we know about the universe, we have just awoken to the fact that *we are...WE EXIST*! That is how open our mind, body and soul need to be, we must understand that nature of ourselves. You may hear people say, "Our nature is war, our nature is to kill and rob and steal and lie, we are essentially evil" And I would say okay, but is not the opposite true? It is self evident that everything is in our nature. To be continued...

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DebiG from Oz — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:19:39 GMT

I've always thought, "When ur numbr's up - ur number's up", so I love the Hindu saying from Nebraska Dave about blades of grass and thousands of arrows!

The best comment was from ZOARIAN. Why do all u right-wing bible-bashers take over every blog/forum u get onto and turn various unrelated topics into religion vs evolution diatribes?? No-one else wants to read ur one-sided, blinkered piffle! Surely, there are other more appropriate religious/bibley/clueless forums u could spew your drivel, other than this one.

And as for quoting great slabs of "The Book", That is absolutely the BEST WAY to stop any educated person from continuing to read your views. Think about it, if we wanted to read great slabs of it, we would be actually reading the real thing ( which of course, we're not, and don't expect to have to read it in a medical blog).

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zoarian — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:00:02 GMT

How did the postings (except for a few), get so far away from the subject of the article. You people need to discuss this stuff somewhere else instead of using mercola as your personal message board for your religous rantings. Just be and let be.

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namastehon — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:25:19 GMT

My brother married the wicked witch of the east for his second wife - over time she isolated him from his friends, his family, and his daughter from marriage #1 (she went to visit her dad, and witch treated her like a servant) and belittled him constantly. She also had an affair towards the end of their marriage. In return, he civilized her kids from her first marriage (the boy was a budding hoodlum and the girl was future jail bait) - their grades improved, their manners improved, they began to believe that they had a real future.

In spite of their difficulties, my bro and his witchwife had a beautiful little boy who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta - like osteoporosis, except you never get better. This little angel broke almost all of his bones just being born and was given a week to live. He required 24/7 care and specialized treatment (bless the Shriners and their incredible hospital); he lived 18 months. Even though there was constant pain from broken bones, this little boy still had the most wonderful smile for anyone who came near.

Long after this angel's death, the divorce, and my brother's marriage to a wonderful woman, I was able to tell him my belief that this child was born specifically to save him from the witch - my reasoning was that the little boy became ill with pneumonia only after my bro's decision to leave his wife after their son's inevitable death.

I also told my bro that proof could be found in his son's obvious sense of humor - he died on April Fools' Day....

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LoriSm — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:54:10 GMT

Hi RobCrouse,

I'm sorry if I sounded angry/defensive as that was not my intention, though you assumed it was. I was asking questions mainly as a means of opening dialog. You know, it is very hard to get our point across sometimes without it sounding like something we do not mean. When we write, the nuances, the inflections, the tone of our voice, our body language, these things do not come through. So, if you think I am cynical/angry/defensive, no, I am not. I never allow myself to be defensive (combative) when it comes to my faith. I would never try to force you or anyone else to believe as I do. I may try to be persuasive (are we not all), but never forceful. Sorry if it seemed so.

I am also not lodging any attacks against you. Perhaps I had no "right" to jump in when you asked a question of someone else, but I already did it, so I cannot take this back.

I am also not being judgmental. I have no clue what you believe or what you do not believe, but since i was merely writing what many believe (evolution/primordial slime, etc) this is what I used. I was certainly not assuming that you definitively believe in this or anything else. However, your basic and simple question seemed to indicate that you are not a believer in the God of the bible.

You are free to believe how you wish, just as I am, and everyone else. And I respect your right to have whatever beliefs you want. I also have very strongly and sincerely held beliefs and was merely trying to get them across in a real and relevant way based on the way you asked your question. Your question could be taken in several ways: because you sincerely want to know why I think what I think; because you are a believer in a different belief; sarcasm; cynicism, etc. I chose the first one and wrote from that premise (yes, an assumption, but isn't that usually what we have to go on in these written posts?)

I won't assume your positions anymore if you won't assume mine. Fair?

Truce?

Lori

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Fred Potter — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:21:47 GMT

>I must ask you, though, how can you look at all the wonders in the world, including the complex human >body, and not know there is a God?

How can you look at all the horrors in the world, including malformed human bodies, twins within a twin, progeria etc and still "know" there is a god?

It's all about chance and ecological vacuums

fred

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swelpy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:20:19 GMT

LoriSm,

Is it,"GOD",a Christian or Muslim, Sikh or whatever GOD you believe in because these GODS are ALL astral created and NOT the creator who you and everyone should be IN TOUCH with.Check it out in

the book "One Light" by the author Jon Whistler and be enlightened.

Swelpy

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Fred Potter — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:11:34 GMT

>This pervasive divine intelligence guides every cell in your body toward health and healing, as long as >you cooperate.

>Your body was designed to move toward health, not toward disease.

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Firstly, we were NOT designed

Look at the Progeria child in a recent issue. No sign of a divine intelligence there, unless it's malicious. Who could dream of a meaner and more vicious thing to do to a child? No design, no elan vital, no benevolent god

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Islander — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:29:29 GMT

Religion and politics are two topics that are far too volatile for a public forum on health. I suggest those folks voice their thoughts somewhere like Yahoo Answers where they would be more appropriate - and more welcome.

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mysmermaid — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:11:39 GMT

If I believe in God and I am wrong, I have lost nothing. If I do not believe in God, and I am wrong, I have lost everything.

Lori

Just asking.

Lori

No Lori, you weren't "Just asking". You were preaching. The Bible says "Ask and you shall receive". If you ask for health (and believe it) you will be healthy. That will happen because you are putting out the right energy, but also because you will begin to make changes toward that goal. In that way you are the creator of your health.