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 Topic: A healthy and Natural way to look at life and death

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  • A healthy and Natural way to look at life and death
     OP - December 24, 2009, 11:20 AM
    Let me back up a little.
    When I was a child, around 10 or so, one of my favorite pets died. My first pet. I was crushed.
    My mother to comfort me, as I was crying all day, read me a book called 'The Fall of Freddie the Leaf'.
    It helped me greatly, but only recently did I really think about the effect it had on me at the early age.
    Make no mistake, my mother was and is a religious woman, I dont think she intended for me to take away what I did from it, the author probably didnt either.
    However, looking back, I cant help but think that this story had a rather profound effect on me developing a naturalistic and humanistic outlook on life and death. A healthy and peaceful view of death, one without the egotistical magic of afterlives or the great fear of the abyss.

    Anyway, without getting too introspective on here, I thought I post it up, as I found a movie version. I invite you to watch it, and remember it for maybe one day it will help you with your own kids (or even yourself  Wink ).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ZI-Rf1_sk&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Z8BLRMLjc&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVnwrSL8id0&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvwD1rSz63E&feature=related


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    superstructure is faith and the dome is a vain hope. Superstition
    is the child of ignorance and the mother of misery.
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  • Re: A healthy and Natural way to look at life and death
     Reply #1 - December 24, 2009, 10:58 PM
    Very beautiful, thanks for sharing. I hadn't heard this story before.  Afro
    "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."
  • Re: A healthy and Natural way to look at life and death
     Reply #2 - December 24, 2009, 11:41 PM
    thanks Smiley
    Once he was in power, they needed him there, to make sense of their lives.
    (a book critic about stalin)
  • Re: A healthy and Natural way to look at life and death
     Reply #3 - December 25, 2009, 01:12 AM
    is this the before bed story for atheist kids...its very gorgeous

     thnkyu


     
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