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Tue 13 Dec, 2005 11:37 pm
Just trying to get to know everyone...
When you die do you think you will go to:
Heaven, hell, or rot in the ground to feed all those worms and such.
Wanda
i'm hoping for purgatory myself.
I'm thinking more in terms of being a citizen of the Kingdom, living in New Jerusalem.
Whatever that turns out to be.
Mostly, when I think about dying, I think only about the fact that I'll be 'on the other side' after crossing the chasm/Jordan river/passing the outermost gatekeeper.
That's enough to make me dance like Snoopy dances!
Rot in the ground just like everyone else.
Wilso wrote:Rot in the ground just like everyone else.
Maybe your worms will know my worms.
Sanctuary wrote:Wilso wrote:Rot in the ground just like everyone else.
Maybe your worms will know my worms.
only if they get plane rides
When I die, my earthly remains will be sitting in an attractive urn in a niche in a lovely national cemetery in Florida.
Oh please don't bury me
Down in that cold, cold ground
No, i'd rather have you cut me up
And pass me all around
Throw my brains in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
Let the deaf have both of my ears
If they don't mind the size . . .
Welcome to A2K, other one. It doesn't really matter, does it. One may be a Robert Browning or a Dylan Thomas or a nobody. Even John Donne has a metaphor for death.
"Nothing became him in his life like the leaving of it."
letty, i think Donne borrowed that from Shakespeare:
DUNCAN
Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not
Those in commission yet return'd?
MALCOLM
My liege,
They are not yet come back. But I have spoke
With one that saw him die: who did report
That very frankly he confess'd his treasons,
Implored your highness' pardon and set forth
A deep repentance: nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it; he died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed,
As 'twere a careless trifle.
DUNCAN
There's no art
To find the mind's construction in the face:
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust.
I knew that, yit. I was just rambling, honey.
well, thanks for the opportunity to quote a favorite passage. ;-)
Willie the shake is always welcome, turtle.
Once again, the believers conveniently overlook:
Solomon, in Ecclesiastes 9: 5,6 wrote:For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.
When you're dead, you're dead.
Then there is always this:
In Luke 23:43, Jesus declared, "Truly I say to you, Today you shall be with Me in Paradise" (Luke 23:43). The word Jesus used for paradise is paradeisos which means "a park, that is, (specifically) an Eden (place of future happiness, paradise)". Paradeisos is the a Greek word taken from the Hebrew word pardes which means "a park: - forest, orchard" (Strong's). Jesus said "Today you shall be with Me "en paradeisos" not "en nephele" which is Greek for in clouds. The point being that Jesus picked and used the word for a park. Not just any park but "the paradise of God" or park of God (Revelations 2:7) which for us will be a place of future happiness.
Doesn't sound like dead is just dead to me. :wink:
neologist wrote:Once again, the believers conveniently overlook:
Solomon, in Ecclesiastes 9: 5,6 wrote:For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.
When you're dead, you're dead.
No, they're immortal, remember
Now what happens to the non-believers might be a better question...
If Adam and Eve had not sinned, where would they and us now be?
And what makes you think God would change his mind?
BTW 'Garden of Eden' = 'Paradise of Pleasure'
CrazyDiamond wrote:neologist wrote:Once again, the believers conveniently overlook:
Solomon, in Ecclesiastes 9: 5,6 wrote:For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.
When you're dead, you're dead.
No, they're immortal, remember
Now what happens to the non-believers might be a better question...
OK, if you insist. Another quote from Solomon:
Solomon, in Proverbs 2: 21,22 wrote:For the upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it. 22 As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth; and as for the treacherous, they will be torn away from it
Sort of rapture in reverse, eh?
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