A solid explosion literally rocked us. Black mushroom like
smoke went into the air. A grenade just went off. It was like in the movie, I thought. But when a man, approximately 70 meters away from us, came out from the gate walking with his two legs trembling, and his fists clenching I knew then that it was real and fatal. He raised his both hands to the chest and then fell face down. That was traumatic. The scene and the sound would flash in my mind every time I saw a camouflage uniform or a military tank.
That certain event in my life did so much on me. Life is indeed fragile and could be sudden. It pushed me to re-evaluate the existence of Heaven and Hell too. I was thinking then, if there is a way to prove the existence of life after life. Well, my childhood education has taught me so well that there is indeed, but as I grew up I realized that life is more
complicated than I thought. In college, I came across a book by Raymond A. Moody "Life After Life." 
'Moody investigates more than one hundred case studies of people who experienced "clinical death" and were subsequently revived.' It speaks of 'Being of Light' at the end of the tunnel. What's so cool about it is that all of those people who were interviewed had almost the same experiences. And to think that these people came from different cultures, religions and nations, that's amazing.
One common experience is like this: a person is pronounced clinically dead.
And then this person sees his deathbed and his relatives crying. He/she is then zapped into this dark tunnel and at the end of this tunnel there is a 'Being of light' who tells him/her to go back. But most of these people do not want to comeback anymore because they felt so much peace and happiness. At the end they wake up from death which doctors and experts could not explain. More of these interviews were conducted by Dr. Elizabeth Kubler Ross who came to the Philippines in the process of her research.
But in spite of these scientific evidences of the existence of life after life, there are still a lot of people who don't give a damn about it. Well, when my students asked and argued me about this I made it sure that I told them this story:
That certain event in my life did so much on me. Life is indeed fragile and could be sudden. It pushed me to re-evaluate the existence of Heaven and Hell too. I was thinking then, if there is a way to prove the existence of life after life. Well, my childhood education has taught me so well that there is indeed, but as I grew up I realized that life is more
complicated than I thought. In college, I came across a book by Raymond A. Moody "Life After Life." 'Moody investigates more than one hundred case studies of people who experienced "clinical death" and were subsequently revived.' It speaks of 'Being of Light' at the end of the tunnel. What's so cool about it is that all of those people who were interviewed had almost the same experiences. And to think that these people came from different cultures, religions and nations, that's amazing. One common experience is like this: a person is pronounced clinically dead.
And then this person sees his deathbed and his relatives crying. He/she is then zapped into this dark tunnel and at the end of this tunnel there is a 'Being of light' who tells him/her to go back. But most of these people do not want to comeback anymore because they felt so much peace and happiness. At the end they wake up from death which doctors and experts could not explain. More of these interviews were conducted by Dr. Elizabeth Kubler Ross who came to the Philippines in the process of her research. But in spite of these scientific evidences of the existence of life after life, there are still a lot of people who don't give a damn about it. Well, when my students asked and argued me about this I made it sure that I told them this story:
"Anecdote from Hell"
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When Satan realized that Facebook membership has surged to more than 120 million users,
he immediately called for a conference of a century.
In his opening remarks he said he wanted to come up with an updated strategy on how to bring more people to Hell.
He wanted to seize this opportunity.
In the third day of the conference, he gathered the best suggestions on how to bring his plan into completion.
He called on his archdevils who made the following reports:
Succuba: Our team has been ahead of this already. We have so far taught people to produce and monetize pornography. This a sure way to bring more people to hell, bwahahahahah!
"Well done", Satan complimented. "Next please..."
Diablo: "Well, our team is faster than that. We have trained humans to kill other human beings in the name of God, Allah or Muhammad!"
"Right, that's faster, indeed!" Satan said.
Next was known as the Hollow Demon, old and cunning.
"You're wasting your time!" he retorted, "our approach never went out of style. Simply convince people that there is no Hell, you'll see they'll act as if there is no Hell!
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What do you think? Does Hell really exist?
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picture credits:
grenade http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1048745
heaven http://wikipedia.org
virus devil http://www.morguefile.com/
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