Comments on: Swear words and the afterlife

By: robin

robin — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:37:33 +0000

Patrick, deep! I had no idea what I was missing by not reading comic books. Guess you and Barry have had it right all along.

Lizzie, glad to know you’re out there mixing it up with the masses, trying to speak their language instead of just speaking English more loudly and raising your eyebrows a lot.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:21:12 +0000

Well, the answers you are seeking are in the spiritual texts around you.

This particular answer is in the Comic Book series - Secret Wars II.

Basically it asked and answered the question of, if you were an infinite, all powerful being, what would you want.

And the answer is simple, to be finite. To have limits. To have challenges to over come. To have joy. To have pain. To have loss. To have gain.

But would you want that forever? To no longer know what it is to be infinite? To read only one story? To see only one movie? To be only one human?

Or it could just be that oxygen deprivation provides the brain with some wonderful hallucinations.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 03:33:34 +0000

My sign language skills have declined SO much since high school… I used to be able to speak it moderately well, but today a deaf guy came into the store and I was tripping over my finger spelling. It was embarassing.

Then an hour later I had to muster all the Spanish I know to explain “buy one get one free” to a South American diplomat.

And you can tack me on the “when you die, you’re dead” board.

By: robin

robin — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:24:52 +0000

Heather, I can see how that might be pretty weird. Good thing you’re a writer, because that sounds like a good story. Then again, maybe you’re too close.

By: Heather Harper

Heather Harper — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:24:58 +0000

My mother had a near death experience when she gave birth to me, and I don’t know how to feel about that.

But I do believe.