Posted by jay on November 21, 2003, at 19:46:29
In reply to Death is so final, posted by Jai on November 17, 2003, at 22:01:25
An interesting story: I have been (well, *used* to be) a very skeptical guy. I believed pretty much in science and rationalism. Well, this past summer, my parents gave me their cottage here in northern Ontario, Canada for two months all to my own if I wished. (What I did was go up for a few weeks...back home for a week..then back up again..etc.) Well, one day I was out canoeing by myself, and a Mom loon came floating along with a little baby loon, basically right up beside my boat. I stopped paddling, and they floated along with me for a good few minutes. Now I don't know if I was "convinced" or "converted" right away, but there was something almost spiritual in that, and in some very different way, for a second, felt connected to the "lost ones", my little daughter and her Mom/my girlfriend who had both died now about 6 years ago. I remember I was smiling and completely bewildered by the experience.
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