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If so, how have you dealt with the memory. This has happened to me twice. Over 30 years ago my first husband shot himself a few feet away. Now, less than a month ago, I found my only son's body after self-strangulation.

She is over 90 and has "lived in sin" for over twenty years. She no longer attends the Catholic Church, but is active in the Unity Church. I know her children are very conservative Catholics. Does this have anything to do with the Catholic view of the afterlife?

I visited a discounted food mart with out-of-date products. I thought the chocolate and tea,if less than six months expired, would be fine, but I was wary of other produce.

I keep composing it in my head anyway.

http://www.simulation-argument.com/matrix2.html

Have you written a letter(s) to be read after your death?

Would you like to have received such a letter?

http://books.google.com/books?id=RxBJC2U5oRoC&pg=P... Only today did I learn that the rumor of Dinah Shore having a black child was false. I had believed it for forty years!

After all, they have a lot in common. Both are recent New World offshoots of Christianity. I would think that in many ways they would appeal to the same kinds of people. Is that race-thing the big separator?

Perhaps you watched the PBS program on Truman over the weekend. I was struck by the fact that Truman's popularity was less than Nixon's on the day he left office. Yet over the years his popularity rose. Did this happen to you? If so, why? (He was president when I was born.)

Last night I dreamt that two of my contacts, who have nothing in common but an interest in a category, were actually married and living a few miles away! I know this indicates I am spending too much time on Yahoo!Answers and need to get a real life. My second question is: Can we get to "know" virtual people better than real acquaintances?

Last night I dreamt that two of my contacts, who have nothing in common but an interest in a category, were actually married and living a few miles away! I know this indicates I am spending too much time on Yahoo!Answers and need to get a real life. My second question is: Can we get to "know" virtual people better than real acquaintances?

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/29/opinion/edb...

This is the opinion in David Brooks' NYTimes article "Demography Is King." Does social identity trump our ideology? In what ways are our demographic allegiances the new cultures or tribes?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/us/22suicide.htm...

I just finished the article above about veteran suicide prevention networks. My question is why are veterans, even years later, more likely to commit suicide. Is it because they've lost their faith because of what they've seen? Is it because of what they themselves have had to do? Is it because of the horrible flashbacks?

This is in response to Barrack Obama's use of that word. Don't people have a right to be sad and bitter sometimes?

Also, do you think illusions are generally beneficial or harmful?

Do they have a right to practice their religion (an unrecognized Mormon sect)-the forced marriage of girls between 13 and 14 in a polygamous relationship? Isn't this just a harem?

If so, why? I'm an agnostic and told my children to spread my ashes in a forest or under a rosebush. I know this is irrational; perhaps I'm just being practical. It's a cheap way to get rid of them.