XPost: alt.religion.christian.20-something, alt.agnosticism   
   From: alanb@sonic.net   
      
   Dear Mr Gunn ...   
      
   It seems you leave out the part on driving the wrong way down a highway ...   
   and manslaughter charges --- and the DUI ... that made all this happen.   
      
   The Alcoholic mindset is what you are speaking about ... and 180 degrees   
   from sick is still sick -  an abreaction - an abnormal reaction.   
      
   Inside where you feel that rejection and the other untoward stuff - all that   
   icky stuff inside - is not love, peace, grace, happyness, joy inside you are   
   carrying around ...   
      
   Keep working your recovery and integrating your drug alcohol fueled NDE and   
   fear based life style ... into a love based lifestyle.   
      
   The learning curve is a bit flat at first - but it picks up after awhile ...   
   in your missive you a toss away the baby and the bathwater - effectively   
   killing both spirituality and religion.   
      
   Spirit and Re-legairie (means to "tie back") are two different things.   
      
   The first is timeless - the other is made by man as you so noted.   
      
   IMO and all that rot...   
      
   sumbuddie hopes this helps   
      
   :)   
      
      
   in article d083bb36.0409181548.73a038c1@posting.google.com, DanGunn at   
   dan__gunn@hotmail.com wrote on 9/18/04 4:48 PM:   
      
   > This is a letter I sent to my church's newsletter, which was promptly   
   > returned to me with a rejection. I hope the internet community will be   
   > less judgemental.   
   >   
   >   
   > I had a near death experience involving a huge car accident that I was   
   > at fault for because I drove the wrong way on the highway. The 4   
   > people in the other car died, but they were all very elderly and   
   > probably going to die very soon anyways. I guess I was relieved that a   
   > young child or a newlywed couple weren't the victims instead. The   
   > experience itself was amazing because I was thrown from the driver's   
   > seat and out the opened window, so as I was flying over the ground I   
   > watched my life go by like I was flying past a great long comic strip.   
   > There was a white light and an Indian was standing there infront of   
   > the light and telling me to follow him. Then it got really strange and   
   > we were in a casino!! So I played some craps and rolled a lucky 11,   
   > and boom there I was in the grass at the side of the highway with all   
   > these lights in my face and people around. At that moment I realized   
   > that everything comes down to pure luck, life is just a dice roll and   
   > everything is PURE CHANCE. Years of believing in God and Jesus and the   
   > Ouiju board were just washed down the drain in this moment, which I   
   > have to say was the best moment of my life.   
   >   
   > I served a 2 year stint for manslaughter and now I'm out again ready   
   > to start my Godless life (which actually started in jail). It's like a   
   > great weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I've started to go out   
   > with girls, and we are doing things together I could never of even   
   > imagined, let alone learn about, during bible study sessions or church   
   > camps. I always had SOME fun at church camps but not this much fun let   
   > me tell you. I no longer use the ISP suggested by the church and have   
   > discovered that they were blocking half the internet sites out there   
   > and about 80% of the fun. I quit my job at the insurance company and   
   > now just do odd jobs when I need money, and spend the rest of the time   
   > at the library reading. Some of my favorite authors are the Marquis de   
   > Sade, CS Lewis, and Douglas Adams. The way I see it the less work I do   
   > the better off I am because you are just going to die anyways, and   
   > that it could happen at anytime: at the drug store during a robbery or   
   > crusing down the highway on the way to Bingo at the Vetran's Hall.   
   >   
   > Life isn't pointless but there isn't a "Great" point to it. We have   
   > invented our Gods to imagine that our lives are great and important,   
   > but really they aren't, it's just a shot of the dice towards the end   
   > of the table. Religion is the arrogance of mankind. Just think about   
   > it the next time you are bored at church, because not everyone will   
   > have a near death experience to show them the light, and that is why I   
   > thought I would share this.   
   >   
   > Dan "Snake Eyes" Gunn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)