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If you knew you only had 5 years left to live, how would you live?
If you only had 1 year left, how would you live?
If you were on your death bed with 24 hours left, what would you regret having not done?
If you only had 1 year left, how would you live?
If you were on your death bed with 24 hours left, what would you regret having not done?
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Re: Answer these questions
Sun, December 28, 2003 - 8:40 AM1. I would quit my job, move to somewhere tropical and work in a hut on the beach selling tshirts to tourists.
2. You better believe I would max out any credit card that I could lay my hands on. Lets just say, around the world in 80 days?
3. Traveling, seeing more places, getting the F*ck out of Dodge.
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Re: Answer these questions
Sat, January 10, 2004 - 9:20 PM1) Work and save for 2 years, then hit the road with the family for the remaining 3.
2) Quit work, cash in the insurance, set up a trust with 1/2 for the family, then hit the road with the other half.
3) Doing more of anything with the family. The "person" is here for a short time, the memory is here forever.
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Sun, January 11, 2004 - 2:51 PM1) I would travel to Italy and probably set up a massage cottage near the hotsprings which would afford me to travel more. Then as the end got closer I would move to the himmalayas and become a monk : )
2) I would travel and end up the same as a monk.
3) Following my path in a more devout way.
See the thing is, I had a near death experience when I rolled my car and it landed on top of me shattering my left hip joint in over 70 peices and fracturing my ribs puncturing my left lung.
I am not afraid of not having enought time or dying itself, I have felt the sensation of leaving and I look forward to doing again when my time is right. The most overwhelming feeling I had while I was between earth and "heaven" was that I had caused pain in selfishness and that given the chance, I would be a better more aware concientious person, all the other stuff didn't matter because, it all comes very clear as you shed your flesh.
Even if one does not believe, seek, or even ask about their higher purpose, it will be fulfilled - thats the nature of existance...
I could go on for hours I love talking about N.D.E.'s
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Re: Answer these questions
Sun, January 11, 2004 - 9:46 PMI find this utterly fascinating. The whole point of these questions is to challenge how we currently live our lives because we never know when we are going to pass. A lot of people say that they are living their lives to the fullest yet when you boil it all down most are not. I am sure that you were not planning on rolling your car. How did this experience change you? Did you possess a solid belief system prior to the accident? How did this experience shape your perceptions of what is important in your life? My ultimate goal, what I strive for is to be able to these answer these questions confidently by saying...I wouldn't change a thing. -
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Tue, January 13, 2004 - 1:01 AMYeah, Michael it sure did change my perspective on life! Some of my closest friends say I'm a different person now.
I had faith before the NDE but I had a LOT of doubt at the time (I was as far off the path as you can get - read: addiction) and after, I feel I cannot unknow what I know.
Now my philosophy professor said you can't truely know something you cannot prove, but lemme tell ya, if I could go around showing people their lives from truth's perspective and revealing the light, I would. (its just not acceptable to go around half killing people to prove a point ;)
I would have to say that the most important thing I got from my experience is the knowledge that there is so much more than the human experience. No matter if one is the strongest, smartest, fastest, bestest one could ever be, one is still human and has a human perspective. This I learned is like trying to download a supercomputer into an amiga - we are not humans beings having a apiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience. We are capable, as spiritual beings, of more than we even imagine. We are part of something so great and inconcievable that we as human tend to doubt and limit ourselves in the flesh. Once we shed our flesh, we shed our humanity and our "sin" and our perspective. I am not Bridget, really. I am the manesfestation of the biology which is the psychology which is the language which is the religion which is the structure of my human experience - my biology is my genetic link to the source and my past life memories are those of my ancestors the blood of my foremothers and their dreams and memories come to me in meditation carried within my DNA. There is no ego in truth - there is no ego in the experience I had. It has absolutly nothing to do with me, it could happen to anyone ever (the part I do take credit for, however, is the healing I did dispite all the odds and science telling me I couldn't)
um yeah, like I said I could go on for hours - truely (give me yerba mate' and watch me go!)
God is everything that could ever be and everything that could never be. What's most important now, is that I am true to what I feel in my heart to be right and true. Everything else is a bonus!
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Re: Answer these questions
Mon, January 12, 2004 - 7:28 PM1. I'd quit my job, like the others. Not because it's boring or totally unfulfilling. There's just other stuff to do.
2. I'd travel too. It's good for you, recharges you. I'd hike, raft and camp some. A few weeks a year is enough, though.
3. My dream is to be a university student again. I'd take up art, and a bunch of electives. I'd work in the library, or be a lab tech on a research project. I'd have time to write for the school paper.
I'll bet actual university students read this and roll their eyes! To each their own.
