[Maryjane]

Sheesh...I go away for a few hours and this thing is three pages long!
I'll make it easy on myself, screw the quotey thing. All my repiles are to Anmon and I suppose I shouldn't worry about this being off topic? I see that train jumped the tracks a few pages ago.

(Gela...I'll get to you in a minute. You have come close to answering my question. WB BTW).

@Anmon:

You said you talk about it all the time, that's repeating.

I'm trying hard to take you serious. Are you imagining us discussing dark and dreary things 24/7? Only around Halloween as to what neat and unusual dark things will make my haunted house cooler to snot nosed 5th graders.

You act like my kids are supposed to be cowered up in the fetal position worried their dad is in a grave rotting and I have to reassure them all the time. We just accept he's dead, corpses rot, believe it our not....even christian ones! My husband chose to be buried.<shrug> My kids learned about decomposition 101 in kindergarten. (Halloween pumpkin left outside in the elements) I know what happens to a corpse. For someone who talks smack a lot, why the sudden change when it comes to real death?

Anywho, I don't get why that's so hard to understand? We don't believe in an after life so what's to discuss? That sitting at the foot of the lord is your way of thinking.

So what's really bugging you? Is it such a hard concept for people of "faith" to understand that good, upstanding, moral, non believers accept death as reality? Or is it that we don't buy into this whole everything is a sin crap? Why does being spiritual have to include your god?

Say it isn't so! It can't be done! What is you want me to confess? I can't get out of bed in the morning, I can't function as a human being? That my kids don't do well in school, that they can't hold a job? I have a drinking problem? ( I do, it's coffee! )


When it comes to death, there are already too many questions that can't be answered. Having faith in an after life (for us) just creates more. <shrug> We have enough things to worry about. You know about as much about the afterlife as I do. Zilch! I'm not consumed with the afterlife and death is a huge part of my reality.

What do you live with every day?

I'd explain it to you but it would take too long and I suspect you wouldn't get it anyway.

Your not dead, so how can you say you with that nihilistic concept?

Sorry, not following you? Come again? You don't understand anyone's concept of reality but your own? That's Ok, you don't have to. Yours works for you and that's all that matters.

I think your boys will sometime go the other way, and look for a more positive and rewarding after death concept.

Again you make me laugh.


You would have to know the boys before you could even assume something like that. BTW, professor, did you have a certain time frame in mind? We've been doing this a few years now.

These boys are flesh of my flesh. I have their best interest in mind, not you. They are always free to choose what ever "concept" they wish. (a discussion we've had numerous times) They chose this and if this "concept" ever stops working for them, they are free to choose another.