On Thu, 24 May 2007 13:12:51 -0600 (MDT), rabbi Min
<rabbi.min@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Merlyn Blaize <mblaize@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> lamented:
> >Like actors watching one another from backstage, our true selves watch
> >each other as we submerge ourselves into this world and then back out
> >again. To our true selves, these lives are but fancies made to pass
> >the time, to give us a sense of "happening" which our knowledge has
> >made virtually impossible. That means we've learned so much at that
> >stage of the game, that our only choice to keeping the "newness" of
> >our lives is to forget who we are and to sink into this world and to
> >live without any of the knowledge we've obtained over there.
> >It's very depressing when something goes wrong and you remember
> >everything. These bodies we use here, they weren't designed to be
> >emotionally equipped for handling the full knowledge of "what we
> >really are". Most of those who remember everything end up killing
> >themselves so they can start again in a body that is once more
> >ignorant of its origins. It's one of the most difficult things to
> >remain in this life, in this world, when you remember what it really
is.
> >Yet even that, worthless as it is, is a test which we force ourselves
> >to endure. All in the name of existing...
>
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> Good grief! In all seriousness, and with all due respect, you really
> do sound like a person who is, and I mean deadly-seriously, suicidal.
> Depression is the 4th stage of grief. The fifth, and final stage, is
> Acceptance--divine ecstacy--in the Light (the "whiteness of Neptune").
>
> Plenty of people have casually talked about, or joked about, suicide,
> but have rarely actually *committed* suicide. You sound more serious...
>
> I know, you'll wax indignant, and retort "but I didn't mean to imply
> that" or "you misunderstood my words".
Actually, I'm really not going to bother "retorting" anything at all.
I just wish to express my amusement at yet another self-proclaimed
psychic Christian. It's amazing the things you think you know about
what goes on in the minds of others. Don't feel bad, though, most of
us have been there at least once, if not twice. :-)
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