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celticeagle @celticeagle (189917) • Boise, Idaho 6 Sep

It rained. Mother Nature knew I needed a boost. And my angels (two good friends, grandma and mom) are always looking out for me and mine. I got up to use the bathroom about 8a. or 9a. I thought I had been dreaming because I...

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Ancient Egypt ~ Makeup and Beauty

celticeagle @celticeagle (189917) • Boise, Idaho 25 Feb 25

Egyptians of both sexes wore makeup. They colored their eyes, lips and styled their hair. 4000 years ago it was common for them to grind up ores like malachite and ochre that was called coal. They applied this all around the eyes....

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What happens next after death?

aubrey @averygirl72 (38848) • Philippines 25 Feb 24

My mom used to say that maybe when people die that is the end of life no more after life and no heaven or hell because heaven is here and hell could be already here on earth. The common belief is that when we die we go straight...

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Short story: A rock’s tale

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 13 Nov 23

The old man had an old rickety table, but for a chair, he was using a rock. He ate all of his meals sitting on the rock at this table. The old man knew that he was dying, and that he had not much longer to live. [b]He...

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Short story: John dies to his body/mind self, but finds still all of himself, complete still, in his soul

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 14 May 23

John had just died, and he found himself in his soul, in some other world, somewhere. He started to have a look around where he was, and he wondered why there was nobody else seemingly there at all. Then, he realised that...

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Short Story: An American Indian dies, but lives again

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 11 Apr 23

The American Indian chief, Chief Little Big Nose, had a near-death experience, that he told his tribe, and because of this, they had elected him to be chief, over them. He had been walking through a forest, on his own,...

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Cryopreservation (part 5) – how would you live?

Fleur @Fleura (35065) • United Kingdom 5 Apr 23

When a person comes into the world as a baby, they have parents or other adults to care for them. Over the next 18 years or so those carers provide everything the new person needs and teach them about how to get along in the...

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Cryopreservation (part 4) – who would revive you and why?

Fleur @Fleura (35065) • United Kingdom 1 Apr 23

So let’s assume you did decide that getting your body frozen would be a good idea. Maybe you have some disease which is currently incurable and means you die relatively young, like in your 40s, but you hope that in a few more...

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Cryopreservation (part 3) – who would pay for the revival?

Fleur @Fleura (35065) • United Kingdom 29 Mar 23

On top of all the practical complications, the dead person is paying for long-term cold storage but as far as I understand it this cost doesn’t cover the costs of trying to revive the person in future, so if this were to happen...

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Cryopreservation (part 2) – who could you trust?

Fleur @Fleura (35065) • United Kingdom 28 Mar 23

Of course the prospect of cryopreservation raises a literally endless list of questions. If you choose to freeze your body after death, how long will the company keep your body frozen? How will you even know if they don’t keep...

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Cryopreservation (part 1) – a new industry

Fleur @Fleura (35065) • United Kingdom 27 Mar 23

I read a post a few days ago by @noni1959 about cryonics: and in reply I said that I had so many thoughts about this subject there was far too much to put in one response, so I promised to write some posts, in fact a whole...

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Short Story: What is the purpose of death? What is the importance of life?

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 25 Jul 22

John's mother had recently died, and he was visiting her memorial stone, in the cemetery. He looked down at the dark writing on the tombstone, which gave the details of his mother's death, and birthdates, and he thought to...

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Short Story: Life meets death, when death meets life, in the same moment of God's love

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 7 Dec 21

The spiritual master, Sri Lumer Freskovski, was giving a talk in his local town hall, about life and death, and how these can be explained spiritually. Here is his talk, as it was recorded in full, for posterity: 'The...

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A short story about Guardian angels

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 15 Nov 21

Jack Gordon's guardian angel had helped him out a few times over his long life, of 79 years young. Now, he was facing his most toughest challenge yet, as he had just been diagnosed with lung cancer. His angel seemed to be...

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Short story: The Spiritual master's students picked his right successor from amongst themselves

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 11 Oct 21

[i]The Spiritual Advantist (From the teaching of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu Spiritual Philosophy. Advantist was a coined word used in this Ashram) master, Sri Ruben Dertvall, was getting old, and he looked around his...

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Short story: The Rabbi who made it into Heaven, but complained to God, about his position there.

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 30 Aug 21

Rabbi Anton Brushnec, had died, and he had gone into that part of Heaven, assigned to the Jewish religion. He met God there, and he asked him about why the Jews are alone in their own segmented part of Heaven, here. God...

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Short Story: The Bishop's letter

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 23 Jun 21

The old Bishop, Father Fredlick Rovsky, was already retired as a priest, and he was now living in an old people's home for retired priests. He wrote a letter to his brother, a self-proclaimed atheist. Here is his...

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Is Life More of a Job?

Shiva @Shiva49 (28390) • Singapore 18 Jun 21

Now I am into retirement and should be really retired, but am I? Yes, I have more free time; no need to do others’ bidding and sort of my own boss. I had felt that way for the first time in my life. However, as long as life...

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Short Story: The deepness of honesty; the shallowness of lieing.

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 3 Feb 21

Old Ted Turnip, was 89 years young now. For all of his long life, he had wondered about honesty. How honest do you have to be, to be honest? At one stage, of his life, Ted had taken on a "second job", umpiring in...

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Poetry: Giving birth to death

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 10 Sep 20

A mother gives birth to life, but we all give birth to death. Life and death are both births, taking us to a new place in it all. To die laughing is to die to death. To die crying is to live to...

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