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how quick would we learn that way? this is graduate school down here, no punches pulled. bring on the pianos!

im sensing a question arising, so i want to address it (your post reminds me of this). ill leave the question unsaid, but the answer is that none of us choose to have a piano fall on our heads for no reason. there are two of us, our higher self which you could say is our future self, and our present self.

somehow in the nature of everything, they coexist even when they contradict we are guided by our higher self, but also by ourselves. when we die and we go to our next life, the question is do we merge with our higher self, or is our higher self still floating in a higher dimension.
if we dont merge, then its quite possible that our present self can stop and make the choice before the next life, of what will happen in the next life. or our higher self can pre-do it for us so we just zip through to the next body. some people go straight to another form immediately, not intermediate time above... i really believe the light at the end of the tunnel is birth.
regardless of which part of us chooses, though, i do think this is what happens... we are given a set of options... for every action there is a response. we are perhaps presented with the choice that, a) we could reincarnate and live to a ripe old age, never having spiritual growth in that one lifetime... or very slow growth... or we could choose option b) we can be given a life where the lesson we will learn will be massive to our spiritual growth, but the consequence of this is that a piano will fall on the top of our head.

its very frequently said how the people that are taken from us suddenly, it was like they were wise beyond their years. they were always the ones to help others out and put others before them. this to me signifies they chose option b.

are you shure all victims of war have chosen to be slaughtered?

no one of us can truly be sure of anything... but just as we can say how can all of them have chosen that path, how can we say they havent? its very much possible they have, and because they have, they were born into a life that put them in that position.

at the same time though, we are protected to an extent of our free will and its quite possible that a higher d negative could come and try and influence us. so we may not have chosen that piano to fall on our head, but in agreement with you, due to an outside negative force we find ourselves walking underneath it just as it hits. it wasnt pre-planned, our free will can change those plans (so really plans are guided) but you know... and yet...we still made the choice to walk down that street that day. to run 5 minutes late.
or to live (or continue living) in a place where its quite possible we could be slaughtered. we make these choices without perhaps realizing the consequences.
when we ignore our instincts, which are whispers of guidance from our higher selves, we choose to listen or ignore. for example...9/11 there were reports of people who had this happen, and because they listened, they are alive today.

its like the road analogy i was mentioning earlier... we hit a fork in the road, and sometimes its a subtle fork, like choosing to sleep in and be late that 15 minutes... and yet one of the paths can ultimately lead to an abrupt end. such as being on time and walking underneath a falling piano.

of course, this is imho


yossarian.... lol, theeeeee grinch! lol god is indeed, jim carrey.