Tolerance is something I strive to achieve every day, but I have found the older I get the more intolerant I am of things which annoy me. I won't get into all of that here, but I once again found this particular thread to be refreshing. Yet one person's belief that there is nothing after death and another who shared their "near death" (not sure if that's the correct term) experience.
My "near death" experience was slightly different, in that I had some large EMT screaming and yelling at me as he performed CPR in the evacuation helicopter. I felt as if I was in a glass coffin and unable to escape to tell this person that I was fighting like hell. I had one day thought about writing about the experience, but interestingly enough I thought the series "Homicide on the Streets" covered it pretty well in one of their episodes were an individual suffers from a stroke. Although, after that particular episode I dropped the series because the character that suffered that massive stroke ended up coming back so fast without any rehabilitation that it really ticked me off. Definitely wasn't believable at all, in my opinion. Sorry to stray, but I continue to find it refreshing that individuals here can exchange opinions without getting nasty with each other. Keep it up and try consider what others might think as you put pen to paper, so to speak. Quadius On 4/14/07, Angie Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not offended by your thoughts, John. Tolerance, I think, depends on the individual and what they have learned in their life about intolerance versus tolerance. I think that I'm pretty tolerant of just about everything, now. Some issues can never be tolerated, and if they are, it would be awful and vile: child abuse of any kind, sexual assault, incest, spousal abuse, etc. Before my injury when I was 13, I was tolerant of what my household was tolerant of. We've all grown since then. I've found myself to be more accepting and tolerant of other people's beliefs, especially in whatever makes them happy. It's not easy to be happy, so more power to you when you find your thing that does it for you. As long as it isn't physically damaging someone else. (Unless they deserve it.) Yes, I argue for embryonic stem cell research. But if people are against it, that's their deal. -Angie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will probably offend someone else as I seem to do quite often but If you need proof then you have no faith. You can't sit and question a faith. The big differences come in what you have faith in. The questions aren't simple, like,"will your faith tolerate embryonic stem cell research?" They are complex like, "will your faith allow you to tolerate the existance of someone who studies embryonic stem cells?" Does your faith really respect the rights of people who have a different faith? A lot of us know that Christian history doesn't have much tolerance for other Christians, let alone people that worship non-Christian faiths. For alomost a century we have allowed our leaders to discuss how tolerant we are. I don't think we are tolerant. Maybe we are but I don't see it. We preach tolerance. We seem to want to be tolerant. Most of us (able-bodied and handicapped) hate large groups of people for all sorts of reasons. My grandfather use to say the second amendment made people tolerant. Not enough of us are armed? john -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 1:22 PM Subject: Fwd: Re: [QUAD-L] after death I really don't know about everyone but, I believe there is live after death. I died and came back. Here is my story. Wheelchair Warrior ** ** *My Near Death Experience* ** *One day I was fine and the next day I could not breathe. I was so scared and at the same time it was so peaceful. My mother was with me in the intensive care. She looked kind of funny for she was wearing those green gowns. As I looked up at her I know at that very moment I was going to die and said:" Mom I'm dying." All of a sudden everything went black. Then I was surrounded by Angles. The room became a beautiful golden light. I heard sounds of wind chimes and Angels were taking me up into the light. I turn and saw so many doctors working on me. They were racing around and putting a tube down my throat. One of the doctors garbed a long suction cup that is attached to a machine and places it again my chest. The other doctor said: "clear" and my body jump up from the bed. They were using the electricity paddle over and over, but the doctors couldn't get my heart started. Each time they used the paddles my body arch up and full to the bed, but I wanted to go with the Angels. All at once I was by a river. It was beautiful on the other side it was like looking into the Garden of Eden. I saw a man surrounded by a golden light. He held out his arms and said:" If it is to pain full come across." It was JUSES! Oh how I wanted to go to him. I turn my head, and saw the doctors still working to save my life. I looked at Jesus he told me that he had so much more for me to do on earth. I was asked if you can not take the pain just cross the river! I said:" Yes I could take the pain." All at once I want back into my body and was in a coma. Later I found out I was dead for five minutes. The doctor told my family that I was in Gods hands. The only thing to do was to pray. * *After three weeks I woke up from the coma. A nurse was standing beside me. I ask her is it time to wake up. She jumped back like she heard the voice of God. That is when she ran to get the doctor, I was upset because I wanted to go back to see Jesus! When the doctor came in he to was surprised to see me awake. He told me I was in a coma for three weeks and he didn't know if I would have came out of it. There was a lot of people praying for you young lady. Doctor David Smith only had one arm. He knows what he was doing. God Bless Him.* * I wanted to add to this story that I know God has used me in so many ways. I know that the Lord is with me everyday of my life. 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