Gary
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Why does it have to be gloomy?
Because death is rarely seen as a joyous occasion.
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How do you want to die? (Not a suicidal thread!)
- Thread starter Angel
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Because death is rarely seen as a joyous occasion.
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agua.
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Clap along if you feel that your death will be happy ( apologies Pharrell Williams )
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His_nee (Jeff)
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"Philippians 1:21
New International Version (NIV)
21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. "
Continually full of joy in His presence in any situation, alive or asleep (dead),
along with the accompanying persecution frequently.
"John 17:13
“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them."
New International Version (NIV)
21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. "
Continually full of joy in His presence in any situation, alive or asleep (dead),
along with the accompanying persecution frequently.
"John 17:13
“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them."
Paul, our model of following Christ (1 Cor 11:1) referred to his going to be with Jesus this way in
2 Tim 4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. He was beheaded; one swift pass of a sword probably didn't allow too much screaming as he met Jesus face to face. What a homegoing that would be huh? Sister Claudya plays with swords; maybe she can fix you right up.
2 Tim 4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. He was beheaded; one swift pass of a sword probably didn't allow too much screaming as he met Jesus face to face. What a homegoing that would be huh? Sister Claudya plays with swords; maybe she can fix you right up.
Lewis
Member
I changed my mind' I don't want to be shot' this is the way that I want to go.
Terrible physical damage.
On the rack, a victims legs and arms were tied to bars at either end of the device, rollers were then used to stretch the body. The tension was maintained and gradually increased by use of a ratchet.
This caused terrible pain for the victim as well as increasing physical damage as the torture continued. Tendons were ripped, joints separated and bones fractured. The sounds of muscles and tendons tearing and snapping provided audible signs of the damage being done. A victim of the rack was often left with permanent physical disability. For example, because of injuries suffered after being racked three times the Jesuit priest Edmund Campion was unable to raise his hand to swear at his trial.
Terrible physical damage.
On the rack, a victims legs and arms were tied to bars at either end of the device, rollers were then used to stretch the body. The tension was maintained and gradually increased by use of a ratchet.
This caused terrible pain for the victim as well as increasing physical damage as the torture continued. Tendons were ripped, joints separated and bones fractured. The sounds of muscles and tendons tearing and snapping provided audible signs of the damage being done. A victim of the rack was often left with permanent physical disability. For example, because of injuries suffered after being racked three times the Jesuit priest Edmund Campion was unable to raise his hand to swear at his trial.
Claudya
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Obadiah
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LOL!!!Depends on who kicks the bucket.And how.
Obadiah
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It's not so bad, Angel. It used to scare me too even though I was on the water a lot doing things like running whitewater rivers in Kayaks. One day I came within probably less than a second or two of drowning and now I'm not so scared of it anymore. What happens is that after a very short time your brain gets deprived of oxygen and you stop caring what's happening. It's not scary if you don't care. When it happened to me I had to make a conscious decision to keep fighting for the surface. I didn't feel any panic and felt no real concern for my situation. I had to keep reminding myself that this was being caused by oxygen deprivation and that I still needed to fight. When I finally got to the surface I was so far gone I'd lost my vision and was beginning to lose feeling over a lot of my body. It wasn't until I took a breath and my brain got oxygen again that my vision and feeling came back, and I again started to care about what was happening! So, really, compared to the pain and suffering of a lot of ways of dying, like battling with cancer for months or years while fully aware of the pain and of the hopelessness of ever improving, if it can't be instant, I'll take drowning over most other things.
Now, kidney failure... If it has to be long term, kidney failure is the way to go! Lost a lifelong friend to that recently. I got to talk with him until his very last day and he said it was painless and he was at peace the whole time. (He was a Christian and knew where he was going afterwards.) The doctors told him he would just feel more tired everyday until one day he would simply go to sleep and not wake up again. Sure enough, that's exactly how it went for him.
Oh yeah, can you imagine going one MPH over the speed limit, crashing and being killed before you could repent and being damned? That’ll teach you to never sin again! Have you ever became angered at another driver for cutting you off, and it may have been your brother in Christ; perfect love huh? We have some that profess to keep all the law that may be able to instruct you how to stay out of hell.
Rom 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God, and say to not speed.
Rom 13:2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. Oh my?
I reckon I hope your good works outweigh your bad ones, but most of all is that I don’t believe any of this I’ve written. We in Christ are kept by God in all our way, and He is perfecting that which He has begun.
Mat 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
If I die before the Lord returns I want to go peacefully in my sleep, but if I am persecuted to death I will not fear death, but with my dying breath will witness and praise the name of Jesus. People get mad at me because I refuse to mourn the dead, but would rather rejoice when one who is in Christ dies as I know they will be with the Lord even though I miss them, but only for a time then we will all be together. I want to be cremated and my ashes dumped in the river I love so much then I want those who are still alive in the Lord to give me a hallelujah party and remember our good times together. No tears or funeral for me please as I only sleep until the coming of the Lord.
If I die before the Lord returns I want to go peacefully in my sleep, but if I am persecuted to death I will not fear death, but with my dying breath will witness and praise the name of Jesus. People get mad at me because I refuse to mourn the dead, but would rather rejoice when one who is in Christ dies as I know they will be with the Lord even though I miss them, but only for a time then we will all be together. I want to be cremated and my ashes dumped in the river I love so much then I want those who are still alive in the Lord to give me a hallelujah party and remember our good times together. No tears or funeral for me please as I only sleep until the coming of the Lord.
Claudya
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Wouldn't you want to have time to prepare yourself and say goodbye to your loved ones?
death? gloomy, because I have to ponder which way I might die in country. and to tell my wife I might come back. if she gets a knock and two men are in class a's and she hasn't heard from me. them im dead. or the old telegram . that speech is something I have given her twice. the second time I didn't go.