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 ImaginingEmotions
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 Interesting Point of View  2
#12530845 - 05/09/10 11:13 AM (3 years, 15 days ago) |
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I stumbled upon this, thought it was a neat little story. Thought I'd share it with you all.
You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMT tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that's when you met me.
"What... what happened?" You asked. "Where am I?"
"You died," I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.
"There was a... a truck and it was skidding..."
"Yup." I said.
"I... I died?"
Yup. But don't feel bad about it. Everyone dies." I said.
You looked around. There was nothingness. Just you and me. "What is this place?" You asked. "Is this the afterlife?"
"More or less." I said.
"Are you god?" You asked.
"Yup." I replied. "I'm God."
"My kids.. My wife," you said.
"What about them?"
"Will they be all right?"
"That's what I like to see." I said. "You just died and your main concern is for your family. That's good stuff right there."
You looked at me with fascination. To you, I didn't look like God. I just looked like some man. Or possibly a woman. Some vague authority figure, maybe. More of a grammar school teacher than the almighty.
"Don't worry," I said. "They'll be fine. Your kids will remember you as perfect in every way. They didn't have time to grow contempt for you. Your wife will cry on the outside, but will be secretly relieved. To be fair, your marriage was falling apart. If it's any consolation, she'll feel very guilty for feeling relieved."
"Oh," you said. "So what happens now? Do I go to heaven or hell or something?"
"Neither," I said. "You'll be reincarnated."
"Ah," you said. "So the Hindus were right."
"All religions are right in their own way," I said. "Walk with me."
You followed along as we strode through the void. "Where are we going?"
"Nowhere in particular," I said. "It's just nice to walk while we talk."
"So what's the point, then?" You asked. "When I get reborn, I'll just be a blank slate, right? A baby. So all my experiences and everything I did in this life won't matter."
"Not so!" I said. "You have within you all the knowledge and experiences of all your past lives. You just don't remember them right now."
I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. "Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly image. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It's like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it's hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you've gained all the experience it had."
"You've been in a human for the last 48 years, so you haven't stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, you'd start remembering everything. But there's no point to doing that between each life."
"How many times have I been reincarnated, then?"
"Oh, lots. Lots and lots. And in to lots of different lives," I said. "This time around, you'll be a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD."
"Wait, what?" You stammered. "You're sending me back in time?"
"Well, I guess technically. Time, as you know it, only exists in your universe. Things are different where I came from."
"Where you come from?" You said.
"Oh sure," I explained. "I come from somewhere. Somewhere else. And there are others like me. I know you'll want to know what it's like there, but honestly, you wouldn't understand."
"Oh," you said, a little let down. "But wait. If I get reincarnated to other places in time, I could have interacted with myself at some point."
"Sure. Happens all the time. And with both lives only aware of their own lifespan, you don't even know it's happening."
"So what's the point of it all?"
"Seriously?" I asked. "Seriously? You're asking me for the meaning of life? Isn't that a little stereotypical?"
"Well, it's a reasonable question," you persisted.
I looked you in the eye. "The meaning of life, the reason I made this whole universe, is for you to mature."
"You mean mankind? You want us to mature?"
"No, just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature and become a larger and greater intellect."
"Just me? What about everyone else?"
"There is no one else," I said. "In this universe, there's just you and me."
You stared blankly at me. "But all the people on earth..."
"All you. Different incarnations of you."
"Wait, I'm everyone!?"
"Now you're getting it," I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back.
"I'm every human being who ever lived?"
"Or who will ever live, yes."
"I'm Abraham Lincoln?"
"And you're John Wilkes Booth, too," I added.
"I'm Hitler?" You said, appalled.
"And you're the millions he killed."
"I'm Jesus?"
"And you're everyone who followed him."
You fell silent.
"Every time you victimized someone," I said, "you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you've done, you've done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you."
You thought for a long time.
"Why?" You asked me. "Why do you do all this?"
"Because someday, you will become like me. Because that's what you are. You're one of my kind. You're my child."
"Whoa," you said, incredulous. "You mean I'm a god?"
"No, not yet. You're a fetus. You're still growing. Once you've lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born."
"So the whole universe," you said, "it's just..."
"An egg." I answered. "Now it's time for you to move on to your next life."
And I sent you on your way. ”
— You
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"The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care but my arms are busy in the air saying I wish you were here."
If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right. 
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Grimmy101
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Interesting story, thanks for sharing. 
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 transital
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: Grimmy101]
#12531747 - 05/09/10 03:08 PM (3 years, 15 days ago) |
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Grimmy101 said:
Interesting story, thanks for sharing.
I second that.
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appleorange
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: transital] 1
#12531790 - 05/09/10 03:18 PM (3 years, 15 days ago) |
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I wanted lots of ho's and money in this life, but god jipped me again 
You can't trust the fucker if you ask me.
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transital
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: appleorange]
#12531931 - 05/09/10 03:49 PM (3 years, 15 days ago) |
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appleorange said:
I wanted lots of ho's and money in this life, but god jipped me again
You can't trust the fucker if you ask me.
Been there, done that. Not worth it. 
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HeartAndMind
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: appleorange]
#12532001 - 05/09/10 04:03 PM (3 years, 15 days ago) |
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Quote:
appleorange said:
I wanted lots of ho's and money in this life, but god jipped me again
You can't trust the fucker if you ask me.
You mean you can't trust yourself? 
Great story IE !
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numonkei
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Janis Joplin woke up at 9:30 in the morning when "Try, (Just a Little Bit Harder), released on the non-boxed box set 'Janis'. Prior to the recording of the track.
I woke up at 4:46 and twenty-seven seconds. She also got worse weed and better heroin and cocaine.
The story is nice, but it does little more than religion, remind us we are 'us', but still only in this one perspective. No matter how many kaleidoscopes we add we still are born and die in this perspective.
Did you write that? I wrote a somewhat similar dialogue with myself and 'a 1976 Mustang' back in my late teen years. It was a lot of fun to write, and lots of fun to read also. Nice to see it's still fun to read, even when it was us that wrote it instead of us.
~Monk
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ImaginingEmotions
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: numonkei]
#12534733 - 05/10/10 01:07 AM (3 years, 14 days ago) |
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I didn't write it.
I do believe that I will live everyone's life at least once. Some nice mushroom trips have taught me that. It's like I have one of those Ah Hah! moments when I realize why I put mushrooms here in the first place.
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"The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care but my arms are busy in the air saying I wish you were here."
If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right.
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transital
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Quote:
ImaginingEmotions said:
I didn't write it.
I do believe that I will live everyone's life at least once. Some nice mushroom trips have taught me that. It's like I have one of those Ah Hah! moments when I realize why I put mushrooms here in the first place.
You say that you believe you will live everyone's life at least once. I do find it plausible and I will entertain you why I feel this way. From our perspective as of now we could say that we feel a sense of separateness from others. Who knows, maybe it's just an illusory sense of separateness or just a reality. The thing is, you say you believe that you will do so, and by that will I assume you mean at some point in time, thus not in this very moment.
What if our ultimate destiny is to eventually transcend time and space, the mind, and to merge with the One Transcendental Consciousness that gives form it's form but yet remains formless? And from that ever present timeless state of beingness we experience the One through the many expressions of the Self.
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pong
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: transital]
#12537318 - 05/10/10 04:25 PM (3 years, 14 days ago) |
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great post.
please link to the author. please link to the ideas.
i am deeply interested.
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ImaginingEmotions
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: pong]
#12537616 - 05/10/10 05:14 PM (3 years, 14 days ago) |
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Unfortunately, I stumbled upon it and forgot to Thumbs it up or record the page it came from. Lets see if I can google it...
Edit: So i searched google for "You were on your way home when you died", the title of the short story, and found a lot of web pages that hosted it. I did find the author though... It was anonymous/everyone. lol
I guess we wrote it for ourselves. 
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"The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care but my arms are busy in the air saying I wish you were here."
If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right.
Edited by ImaginingEmotions (05/10/10 05:18 PM)
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transital
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: pong]
#12538131 - 05/10/10 06:34 PM (3 years, 14 days ago) |
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pong said:
great post.
please link to the author. please link to the ideas.
i am deeply interested.
I really can't name a specific source except that it came through me but it certainly did not originate in me. I think you'll find the idea of God being personal/form and impersonal/formless in many scriptures, and of course, the idea of reincarnation coming from the east. If you ask me what to read I would tell you to read “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Paramahansa Yogananda –it's a life changing book. If you need fuel for your spiritual quest and direction that's a great place to start.
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: transital]
#12538594 - 05/10/10 07:42 PM (3 years, 14 days ago) |
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: auxiliary]
#12538645 - 05/10/10 07:50 PM (3 years, 14 days ago) |
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That was an awesome story, IE. I've been thinkin' since I read this- maybe as a singular consciousness, we all inherently have the experience and memory of each life within us, but each of us truly do have our OWN lives. See- the index, middle, ring, pinkie finger and thumb are all separate, but the brain has control over all five.
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Sounds so unlikely I got to  Course I heard it before.
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“under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.”
― Robert Anton Wilson
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: Icelander]
#12538829 - 05/10/10 08:18 PM (3 years, 14 days ago) |
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Aw arrogance.
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DieCommie
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Wasn't this an episode of the twilight zone?
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: auxiliary]
#12540908 - 05/11/10 01:57 AM (3 years, 13 days ago) |
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[Nurse:] Excuse me? Doctor? Do you have a moment?
[Doctor:] A moment? What's the question?
[Nurse:] More of a situation, a gentleman in exam 3.
[Doctor:] What's the problem?
[Nurse:] That is the problem, we're not sure.
[Doctor:] You got the chart?
[Nurse:] Right here.
[Doctor:] Not much here to say
[Nurse:] No doctor, no obvious physical trauma. Vitals are stable.
[Doctor:] Name?
[Nurse:] No sir.
[Doctor:] Did someone drop him off?
Maybe we could speak to them.
Let's get some background on this fella.
[Nurse:] No ID. Nothing
[heavy breathing in background]
And he won't speak to anybody.
[Doctor:] Well, let's say hello.
Good Morning, I'm Dr. Lawson.
How are you today? How - are - you today?!
Look son, you're in a safe place.
We wanna help in whatever way we can.
But you need to talk to us.
We can't help you otherwise.
What's happened? Tell me everything.
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ImaginingEmotions
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: Arden]
#12541970 - 05/11/10 10:41 AM (3 years, 13 days ago) |
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Mindcrime, not very many people have heard of that. Just the peeps that grew up in the 80s really.
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"The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care but my arms are busy in the air saying I wish you were here."
If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right.
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JackofSpades
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huh. thats interesting.
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numonkei
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Quote:
ImaginingEmotions said:
I didn't write it.
I do believe that I will live everyone's life at least once. Some nice mushroom trips have taught me that. It's like I have one of those Ah Hah! moments when I realize why I put mushrooms here in the first place.
Not mine. Or else you already did or will or whatever.
Stop Bogarting the experience, ya  . Save some for those 'honor killed' over the past few years.
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Icelander Said
Sounds so unlikely I got to Course I heard it before.
Because this one killed 'oneness'.
Opting out of ratings and then getting all uppity.
~Monk
Edited by numonkei (05/11/10 04:50 PM)
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Re: Interesting Point of View [Re: numonkei]
#12545629 - 05/11/10 10:44 PM (3 years, 13 days ago) |
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I liked it.
It could have had a few things added there.
"You're also each blade of grass, each pebble, each grain of sand, even each atom"
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