BigPapaDean Posted October 30, 2010 Member ID: 1128 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1213 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6561 Content Per Day: 1.17 Reputation: 4441 Achievement Points: 63724 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Posted October 30, 2010 Most of you that know me know that I am pretty easy going. Every once in a while I see or hear something that stirs my mind. The other day there was a posting about the invalidity of God and Christianity! I wasn't offended because I believe everyone has the right to believe however and whatever they so choose. Having said that tho, I remember something that happened to me. You can take it with a grain of salt or completely ignore it. My intention is not to be preachy or self righteous, but to just tell a story and then tell you why I told the story. Back about 28 yrs ago in less than 2 wks my father(Papa Todd as we fondly called him) Passed away. He was the kindest, nicest, most loving man I have ever know then or since. As I went to the funeral I was fairly composed and seemed to be ok. It wasn't till I returned to my home in the great state of Washington that the effects of grieving begin to wreck havoc on my self. I would wake in the middle of the night in a cold sweat with an uncontrollable sobbing. Being the next to the youngest of 8 children, all but me and one sister were with Papa when he passed. I felt so guilty about that and it just seem to eat at me. I was raised in a very conservative christian home and believed in the power of prayer very much so one night after I seemed to be getting worse I got down on my knees and asked God to help me with this problem. That night I had a powerful dream. I dreamed that I was by my Papa's bedside as he laid there dieing. I held his hand and told him I loved him, but that it was his time to go home. Then I told him bye. That was when he passed on to another world. Now I know there are many skeptics and that is fine but this is a true story and I lived it. My purpose is strictly to let those that don't believe you are free to feel however you want for why you want. Your still my friends. Many people need what the many different religions in the world have to offer. They need rules and such to have something to direct their lives by. Many others do not need that, and that's okay too. I have a saying that maybe we all can live by. "Just because I believe it does not make it so." That means to one it is the truth to another it is not. I ask that each and everyone of us be a lot more tolerant of those that don't believe the way we may. There is only one way to prove or disprove anything about the hereafter and that is to go into the hereafter and see if it is true. Happy Holidays in the coming months! Awards
StanG Posted October 30, 2010 Member ID: 824 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 19 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 317 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 168 Achievement Points: 2144 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 4 Birthday: 03/08/1967 Device: Windows Posted October 30, 2010 dean my grand dad came to me the night he passed away and said guy bye to me in my sleep , it was around 1 am when he came to me in my sleep , i woke up saying it was just a dream , the next day i went to play paintball and have some fun . but i felt like some thing was not rt , i called my wife and said when i come back we should go to church then go see my grand dAd . she says ok , but what she did not tell me is that he had passed away that night at 1 am , i found this out when i got home that day . I learned alot from him when he was alive and when he died he showed me that6 this is death is not the end its only the being of some thing much much more . My dad rt now is dying of brain cancer and the lesson that my grand dad showed me has helped in dealing with my dads soo to be death , EVERY THING HAPPENS FOR A REASON LEARN FROM IT Awards
GaberialX Posted October 30, 2010 Member ID: 891 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 387 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 2261 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/16/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 25, 2018 Birthday: 02/27/1980 Posted October 30, 2010 now that post was from me, while I do apologize if it did offend anyone, It was meant as a joke so yet again my sincere apologies.
evool Posted October 30, 2010 Member ID: 721 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 277 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1516 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/10/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 01/01/1970 Posted October 30, 2010 i had a friend .. very very good friend, in fact he was like my little brother.. we grew up together and basically spent every day doing what kidds do best. but few years ago .. he died in a car accident. actually was taken to the hospital and two days later doctors said that his brain damage was so bad that he would die anyway and they shut down machines that kept him alive. before that even happend i had a very bad dream about half a month before it happend. he appear in my dream and i remember is as clear as a day he said" it's my time to go now" but he never said "bye" or anything so i didnt pay attention to it then ... and then it happend ... im not gona get into details becse its very sad what happend .. but i went to his funeral i didnt cry even once but it hit me two days later and i couldnt stop it ... i've never cried so much in my life, and that becase i didnt have a chance to say anything to him .. we had a little fight the last time we saw echother and i felt so guilty it hurt so bad i wanted to rip my heart out and burn it. but then a week after the funeral i saw a dream .. we were standing infront of his house, he was nealing against a big tree infront of his house which we used to climb all the time to hide from his little brothers and i didnt see or hear him saying a single word he just stood there smiling ... but i felt it .. he came to say goodbye. i saw him couple more times after the funeral and just standing there saying nothing. and the thing is i havent seen him anymore ever since so i do believe he is happy where ever he is and watching over ppl he loved.
BigPapaDean Posted October 31, 2010 Member ID: 1128 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1213 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6561 Content Per Day: 1.17 Reputation: 4441 Achievement Points: 63724 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Author Posted October 31, 2010 GaberialX now that post was from me, while I do apologize if it did offend anyone, It was meant as a joke so yet again my sincere apologies. GabrialX I knew what you meant by it But I just thought it was a good time to show while there is a wide spread in beliefs here we can as men and women have the compassion to allow each other to be what we are. This post is in no way a reflection on you or your beliefs or your joke. Just to acknowledge that there are other view points! Awards
2_MANY_BEERS Posted October 31, 2010 Member ID: 96 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 108 Topic Count: 1049 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 8817 Content Per Day: 1.53 Reputation: 3309 Achievement Points: 62219 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 19 Birthday: 06/30/1954 Device: Windows Posted October 31, 2010 Yeah but 85% of the world population can be wrong. You never know. And no one knows. What % of population voted for Obama? Wrong again.
StanG Posted October 31, 2010 Member ID: 824 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 19 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 317 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 168 Achievement Points: 2144 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 4 Birthday: 03/08/1967 Device: Windows Posted October 31, 2010 My grand dad just said i have to go bryan , i saw 2 or three other people with him , his brothers who had died before him . i think they come to us after they die to make sure we are ok and to confort us thru it all . Awards
Angel Posted October 31, 2010 Member ID: 46 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 103 Topic Count: 133 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 4326 Content Per Day: 0.75 Reputation: 2974 Achievement Points: 34860 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 29, 2024 Device: Windows Posted October 31, 2010 Yea..I can relate. My grandmother that I was the closest to growing up passed away the one night I said I would come by and see her and I didnt get a chance to cause of work. And I felt so guilty when my uncle showed up to tell us the news, I hit the floor screaming. Later that night I was laying on the couch..saying how sorry I was and wish I could have gone or called or said goodbye, something, but while on that couch...I heard my grandmother call me from the kitchen and I raised up very carefully of course and I had the calmest ok feeling I have ever had come over me. So I knew then it was ok, she had forgiven me. Of course it still stings when I think about it but I know also she knows without a doubt I love her and miss her so much. My other grandmother when she passed away, I had promised I would come see her and I did whatever it took to go see her and I walked into the room and I was the only person she recognized that day and we said our love yous and I left about 30 mins later. She died about 5-10 mins after I left the hospital. Its crazy how things come and work....I promise that night when my first grandmother that I wouldnt let a love one go a day without knowing I love them and I think God gave me that chance with my other grandmother. And to this day..never ever let a love one go a day without lettin them know u love them.
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