Jethro Tull
Fisher of men
This excerpt begins a section about physical death. This section is the most intense thing I have ever read, and it really puts you face to face with your impending death. It is time to face death, to realize that it is coming soon. A little fear can help motivate us to learn the truth. The section helps you realize that seeking the truth about life and death is the most important thing you can do. "Take heed of the living one while you are alive, lest you die and seek to see him and be unable to do so." - Jesus
You cannot overcome physical death. Prepare for your impending death:
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The saddest thing is someone dying without ever living.
Lie and die:People live their lives, living a lie, and then they die in a lie. I was watching a talk show about people that know they are going to die soon and how that they are dealing with it. Everyone on the show was acting like they had come to terms with it. They said they have come to an understanding with their death and are now ok with it. They are facing death with courage and a positive attitude. It is not true.
You cannot bring anyone on a talk show to talk about death if they are going to be honest about it, because it will not be good entertainment. A talk shows job is to make people feel better, not necessarily to tell the truth.
It is interesting that lie and die are so close to the same thing.
The people on the show are doing the best they can do, because no one knows the truth, but it is not honest. No one is okay with their impending death. The truth is, it is lifes ultimate nightmare, even if you know the truth and the life.
Your death is your ultimate nightmare, period. That is the truth.
It is the worst thing that happens in life, no matter how you look at it. Life contains some bad things, and death is the worst of them all. It is the way it is.
People get scared when they watch a scary movie of someone getting killed or dying; try to imagine how scared you will be when it is really happening to you.
Anyone that says they are ok with death is lying. No one can be okay with it, but that does not make people feel good, so no one can be honest about it.
The problem is that it tells people it is ok to be dishonest even, when you are about to die, which it is not. Just before you die is the time to be the most honest. Otherwise, you send the wrong message to the people you care about.
The reason it is the saddest thing to see someone dying without learning the truth is because it is now unnecessary; the truth can be known, and people know it subconsciously. It is right there, but they just cannot connect with it.
If you do not know the truth, the worst thing to do is deceive yourself and others, because it removes any chance of you learning the truth.
Even when you know the truth, there is not much to feel good about. You can feel good that you are one of the first people on earth to die knowing the truth, and you can look forward to being reborn in a better place, but that is about it.
If you are in great pain and have a hopeless, degenerative, terminal disease, you may welcome death, but that only means that your disease is worse than death. It does not make death okay; death still sucks on many levels.
Death Sucks: Your death forces you to have to leave everything you have ever known. You are leaving everyone you love, and that is never okay.
Even if you think it is good, it makes your loved ones sad when you die, and there is nothing ok about that. No matter how you look at it, it is bad. Therefore, anyone that says they are ok with it has not really thought about it, is stupid, or is lying to themselves and everyone else. Death sucks, and that is the bottom line.
If you learn the truth and the life, you can die knowing you did the best that was possible for a human being. Having learned the truth and the life, you will be reborn in a new world where death will never be as bad as it is in this realm. It is a lot better than dying in ignorance or a living lie. You will know that death is necessary and what is going to happen next, but death will always be tragic in many ways, and it is never ok.
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From page 293 of the free book, The Present (with religion), at http://www.thetruthcontest.com
You cannot overcome physical death. Prepare for your impending death:
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The saddest thing is someone dying without ever living.
Lie and die:People live their lives, living a lie, and then they die in a lie. I was watching a talk show about people that know they are going to die soon and how that they are dealing with it. Everyone on the show was acting like they had come to terms with it. They said they have come to an understanding with their death and are now ok with it. They are facing death with courage and a positive attitude. It is not true.
You cannot bring anyone on a talk show to talk about death if they are going to be honest about it, because it will not be good entertainment. A talk shows job is to make people feel better, not necessarily to tell the truth.
It is interesting that lie and die are so close to the same thing.
The people on the show are doing the best they can do, because no one knows the truth, but it is not honest. No one is okay with their impending death. The truth is, it is lifes ultimate nightmare, even if you know the truth and the life.
Your death is your ultimate nightmare, period. That is the truth.
It is the worst thing that happens in life, no matter how you look at it. Life contains some bad things, and death is the worst of them all. It is the way it is.
People get scared when they watch a scary movie of someone getting killed or dying; try to imagine how scared you will be when it is really happening to you.
Anyone that says they are ok with death is lying. No one can be okay with it, but that does not make people feel good, so no one can be honest about it.
The problem is that it tells people it is ok to be dishonest even, when you are about to die, which it is not. Just before you die is the time to be the most honest. Otherwise, you send the wrong message to the people you care about.
The reason it is the saddest thing to see someone dying without learning the truth is because it is now unnecessary; the truth can be known, and people know it subconsciously. It is right there, but they just cannot connect with it.
If you do not know the truth, the worst thing to do is deceive yourself and others, because it removes any chance of you learning the truth.
Even when you know the truth, there is not much to feel good about. You can feel good that you are one of the first people on earth to die knowing the truth, and you can look forward to being reborn in a better place, but that is about it.
If you are in great pain and have a hopeless, degenerative, terminal disease, you may welcome death, but that only means that your disease is worse than death. It does not make death okay; death still sucks on many levels.
Death Sucks: Your death forces you to have to leave everything you have ever known. You are leaving everyone you love, and that is never okay.
Even if you think it is good, it makes your loved ones sad when you die, and there is nothing ok about that. No matter how you look at it, it is bad. Therefore, anyone that says they are ok with it has not really thought about it, is stupid, or is lying to themselves and everyone else. Death sucks, and that is the bottom line.
If you learn the truth and the life, you can die knowing you did the best that was possible for a human being. Having learned the truth and the life, you will be reborn in a new world where death will never be as bad as it is in this realm. It is a lot better than dying in ignorance or a living lie. You will know that death is necessary and what is going to happen next, but death will always be tragic in many ways, and it is never ok.
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From page 293 of the free book, The Present (with religion), at http://www.thetruthcontest.com
