WOUD U DO IT DIFFERENTLY ?

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WOUD U LIVE DIFFERENTLY IF U BELIEVED
THAT LIFE CONTINUED ON INDEFINITELY ?

People who have returned from "death"
(defined as flatlines on EEG, EKG and respiration monitors for a while)
in hospitals have described living on independently of their human bodies
and (in some cases) vicariously experiencing their effects upon other people.

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If were convinced that this is true (more than a dream)
woud u act differenly as to how u live your life on a daily basis ?

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@OmSigDAVID,

I doubt anyone has been dead that long and come back! I base my life on Buddhist principles. I hope to do the same after I am dead.

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@NickFun,

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I doubt anyone has been dead that long and come back!
I base my life on Buddhist principles.
I hope to do the same after I am dead.

Good luck with that.
I doubt that u will ever be dead.
I don 't think u can.

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@OmSigDAVID,

I am what I am. Time has no bearing.

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@Intrepid,

i yam what i yam, and i can'st be no more - popeye

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actually in my situation, i think reid paley in his song lazarus in brooklyn summed it up best

"if i had another chance
i'd do it just the same
just wouldn't do it
with you"

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"if I had it to do all over,
I'd do it all over you"

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

If were convinced that this is true (more than a dream) woud u act differenly as to how u live your life on a daily basis ?

No. Would you?

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@OmSigDAVID,

There are, in fact, may who do believe in an afterlife. This question would
clearly not apply to them.

Of those who do not, if they were to be suddenly convinced that there was an
afterlife, only a few would change the daily conduct of their daily lives. Even
after a major event, daily life goes on in its daily way. People get caught up in
details, in the here-and-now. Afterlife is, well, after life. After this life,
anyway. And this life keeps people pretty well occupied.

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@George,

before enlightenment a man should chop wood and carry water, after enlightenment a man should chop wood and carry water.

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@dyslexia,

You are wise beyond your headgear, Master.

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@Intrepid,

Intrepid wrote:

I am what I am. Time has no bearing.

Thank u, Richard.

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@djjd62,

djjd62 wrote:

actually in my situation, i think reid paley in his song lazarus in brooklyn summed it up best

"if i had another chance
i'd do it just the same
just wouldn't do it
with you"

U wanna get rid of someone ?

I have it the opposite.
Many decades ago, I had pals
whose friendship I did not bother to continue.
In retrospect, I see that was a mistake, in @ case.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

More cognitive insight, David.

"Yes, friends, ye are old again," said Dr. Heidegger, "and lo! the Water of Youth is all lavished on the ground. Well--I bemoan it not; for if the fountain gushed at my very doorstep, I would not stoop to bathe my lips in it--no, though its delirium were for years instead of moments. Such is the lesson ye have taught me!"

But the doctor's four friends had taught no such lesson to themselves. They resolved forthwith to make a pilgrimage to Florida, and quaff at morning, noon, and night, from the Fountain of Youth.

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@rosborne979,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

If were convinced that this is true (more than a dream)
woud u act differenly as to how u live your life on a daily basis ?

rosborne979 wrote:

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No. Would you?

Yes.
I already started, a few decades ago,
dumping unexpected gifts (usually cash) on unsuspecting victims.
I visited the author of Life After Life, Raymond Moody, M.D.
and told him of that.
He had already written of guys who, while "dead"
had life review experiences that included feeling
their negative effects upon others
(e.g., one guy who slugged another repeatedly
in the mouth, motivated by a motor vehicle accident.
He had rear-ended his victim. During the life review,
he felt the effects upon his victim of getting slugged
in the mouth a lot. He also felt the secondary
"ripple effects" upon others who were not present
at the scene of the slugging.)

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@dyslexia,

dyslexia wrote:

before enlightenment a man should chop wood and carry water,
after enlightenment a man should chop wood and carry water.

Y ?

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@Letty,

Letty wrote:

More cognitive insight, David.

"Yes, friends, ye are old again," said Dr. Heidegger, "and lo! the Water of Youth is all lavished on the ground. Well--I bemoan it not; for if the fountain gushed at my very doorstep, I would not stoop to bathe my lips in it--no, though its delirium were for years instead of moments. Such is the lesson ye have taught me!"

But the doctor's four friends had taught no such lesson to themselves. They resolved forthwith to make a pilgrimage to Florida, and quaff at morning, noon, and night, from the Fountain of Youth.

I can 't help but wonder what lesson
thay had tawt him, Letty.
What had thay done to him ?

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

Above half a century ago, Dr. Heidegger had been on the point of marriage with this young lady; but, being affected with some slight disorder, she had swallowed one of her lover's prescriptions, and died on the bridal evening. The greatest curiosity of the study remains to be mentioned; it was a ponderous folio volume, bound in black leather, with massive silver clasps. There were no letters on the back, and nobody could tell the title of the book. But it was well known to be a book of magic; and once, when a chambermaid had lifted it, merely to brush away the dust, the skeleton had rattled in its closet, the picture of the young lady had stepped one foot upon the floor, and several ghastly faces had peeped forth from the mirror; while the brazen head of Hippocrates frowned, and said, -- ``Forbear!''

So, David, Dr. Heidegger knew that he could not change anything by being young again.

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@OmSigDAVID,

i would have spent less time with some and more with others, probably not have got rid of anybody

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Doing right rather than wrong and good rather than evil has its own personal rewards ( psychologically if not financially) to me. It attracts the type of people I would associate with and limits relationships that I do not want.

The only compulsion I feel about helping others is when I know I can do something for them that they may never be able do for themselves. While that may seem mean , it is kind of based on the idea that I would never ask for help for something I knew I could do on my own.

I don't see any reason to change because of what might happen after death.The basic life responsibility as I see it is to be true to yourself and harm no others. Help those where your help makes a difference.

I guess the idea of teaching a man to fish rather than giving him a fish reflects my belief to a degree with no desire or guilt about leaving the person who doesn't want to learn to fish alone.

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