[at-l] the challenges of our faith, morality and life

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January 5, 1997 I died.  My heart stopped and I knew ahead of time it was stopping. Or at least I was well aware of the prospect.  If they had done nothing I was ready for the dirt nap.  They tried paddles and they didn't do any good.  I never knew they tried them.  They stuck a needle in my heart that cost $6,000.00 for the shot.  It did the trick.  It hurt like hell.  Worse than a kidney stone hurts.  I screamed like a youngin.  I didn't see any white light or the hubs of hell but I flat lined for more than two minutes. What I learned from the experience is that it is like nothing to die and it hurts like hell to be brought back.  It was well worth it though.  A lot of good things have happened to me since then.When it comes to living or dying I pick Livin. :>))
Clyde

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> > Death is not pleasant. 
> 
> Dying, perhaps, is not pleasant. 
> 
> But we really don't KNOW how DEATH will be, do we? Be honest. While 
> we've been TOLD a variety of stories, none of us really knows. 
> 
> Death itself might be just fine, like "taking off a tight shoe." 
> Or, it might be like nothing at all, but then it wouldn't matter - if 
> it were like nothing, then how would we know? We wouldn't. 
> 
> Of course, if you fear an eternal, burning damnation, then I can see 
> perhaps why you might be afraid to die. But that's a fear based on a 
> belief, not on a knowing. 
> 
> The more interesting questions are: How would we live if we weren't 
> afraid to die? What would such a life look like? 
> 
> It's not like any of us will get out alive. 
> 
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From: blisterfree at isp01.net (Brett)
Date: Sat Mar 26 17:18:00 2005
Subject: [at-l] Stile Trivia
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There's another one like the "Smokies thing" in the vicinity 
of the Keiffer Oak in SW VA. Not at the tree per se, but 
within a day's walk I believe. Doubtless there are others 
like it elsewhere as well. A different style of stile for 
every mile...

- bf

>I was excluding the thing in the Smokies (which is, by the 
>way, between
> Clingmans Dome and NewFound Gap).  It does serve as a 
> passage for humans while
> preventing a traverse by other animals, so I guess it is, 
> indeed, a stile of
> sorts.  I don't recall any south of there.
>
> Kinnickinic
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