Scuba Pete
Le plongeur avec attitude...
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Raises hand excitedly! BwahahahaHe also said that some people are just here to be annoying.
Does everybody have a time to die? I got into a conversation with my uncle about this. He said that it should be okay to kill people, because everybody will die at their time anyway. If he didn't kill them, they would have gotten hit by a car or something else. It's impossible to speed somebody's death up, and impossible to slow it down. Like this conversation we had the next day.
He was standing on a ladder screwing in a door stop for the door in the office. The office was closed at the time, but somebody official looking came up to the door and knocked. I let him in. After he left my uncle said, "Why'd you let him in? He could have been a serial killer gonna kill us both!" I said, "Well, since everybody has a time, even if he didn't kill us, you would have fallen off the ladder anyway."
So, everybody is going to die at a certain time no matter what.
Does anybody else think something similar?
I agree. I think your uncle's a nut.I think he should have his head examined. This is the makings of a sociopath. Seriously.
Well, if someone believes he didn't come to this world by chance, then it's very expected to believe that he won't leave it by "chance". If some one wants to believe that chances take '"souls"', then no problem but that doesn't mean the others are superstitious.I also think most of the poeple on this board so far are very superstitious. Fate, indeed!
The word is chance. When the right combinations of things happen, we will die. When this combination will occur is up to chance.
Can you offer your interpretation of the scriputre instead of just posting it and assuming we all understand it the same way?
I believe in fate. I also believe you can cheat fate, like committing suicide.
Sure it does. That's what superstition is: ascribing personalities and intentions to inanimate and unconscious conditions and circumstances.Well, if someone believes he didn't come to this world by chance, then it's very expected to believe that he won't leave it by "chance". If some one wants to believe that chances take '"souls"', then no problem but that doesn't mean the others are superstitious.
Well, if someone believes he didn't come to this world by chance, then it's very expected to believe that he won't leave it by "chance". If some one wants to believe that chances take '"souls"', then no problem but that doesn't mean the others are superstitious.
I don't think you can, not right now. Perhaps if life gets so messed up and you develop mental problems you might be capable of it some day but definitely not right now. You won't jump out that window until something causes you to do it.It's impossible to prove, but I don't see any evidence that suggests the "death clock" is real. I could get out of my chair right now, jump out the window head-first, and die, or remain seated and live.
And yes, I plan on doing just that.
I believe before we come down here we create paths. Sort of a flow chart. If "A" doesn't happen then we take road "B". If we fulfill purpose on road "B" than we take road "C", if not, we take road "D". This way it gives us a way out if we get tired of this physical existence.if youve seen the movie final destanation i think there are clues to cheeting death but only for so long
Is this something intentional or subconsious? What about accidental death or disease? Doesn't a murderer decide the time of death of his victim?I do not believe in predestination OR fate. You might all chuckle but the only one who sets the time of your appointment with infinity IS YOU. You're gonna have to trust me on this one. (Plus, it is not like it is the first time you have ever died, lol.)
This my dear sir is an excellent viewpoint. Frubals to you, grasshopper. Almost spot on in my humble opinion. In the past I have likened it to making a shopping list and heading out for the local mall. Once you get there you tend to get sidetracked and may well arrive back home without all the goodies on your list neatly crossed off. That of course entails another trip to the mall. THAT is how reincarnation works and timelines are almost like backdrops that are arranged to suit ones needs. For example there is no reason why one life cannot be in our 21st century and then the "next" life lived in the 20th century... just to give the entity a greater understanding of the immense dynamics involved in the "shopping trip".I believe we made promises to others before coming to this earth and gaining a body. I believe I promised my wife to find her and her family. I believe there are people in our lives who we knew in the pre-existence that made promises to us.
I believe in the power to act and choose to our own conscience. there is no predetermined fate or destiny, i believe we have blessings in store for us if we do what we promised to do, what we are supposed to do.
So killing people is wrong, no matter what, because you are stopping people from fulfilling their promises.
This my dear sir is an excellent viewpoint. Frubals to you, grasshopper. Almost spot on in my humble opinion. In the past I have likened it to making a shopping list and heading out for the local mall. Once you get there you tend to get sidetracked and may well arrive back home without all the goodies on your list neatly crossed off. That of course entails another trip to the mall. THAT is how reincarnation works and timelines are almost like backdrops that are arranged to suit ones needs. For example there is no reason why one life cannot be in our 21st century and then the "next" life lived in the 20th century... just to give the entity a greater understanding of the immense dynamics involved in the "shopping trip".