[JohnHuang2]

Saturday, October 25, 2003

Quote of the Day by nonsporting

[kms61]

Has anyone else heard of this? Is it in the sense that the doctors have given him a certain number of weeks or months, or does he believe he knows the actual date?

A big frustrating that Cavuto mentions this in passing and the goes off on a tangent. Not that he doesn't make some valid points, but still....

[MJY1288]

Neil Cavuto is someone who I respect a lot. He is always optimistic and to the point. A clear thinking guy who isn't afraid to call a spaid a spaid

[California74]

ok. if he really knows when he's going to die, then why doesn't he write it down, seal it in an envelope, mail it to himself, put it in a drawer with his personal items, like is will, and then after he dies we can open it and see if he was right?

That's what I'd do anyway, send my remaining loved ones a "sign."

[Tall_Texan]

Then there's my cousin's husband's father. He's 89 and a long-time Baptist, as well as a widower. In August, he was suffering from congestive heart failure and kidney failure. The doctors determined nothing more could be done for him. They ceased his medicines and sent him home to die. They said death would come within two weeks.

Prayers were said. A vigil began. All his remaining friends and family came to see him. He'd made his mind up that he would face the inevitable and was mentally prepared for what awaited.

Except it didn't happen. He got better (makes you wonder about those medicines, doesn't it?). A couple of Sundays ago, he actually got dressed and went to church!

Nobody believes his longterm prognosis is good but it's amazing to me how everyone, including the patient, was prepared for the end and yet God allowed him more time.

I do think some people "know" when it's their time. I also believe that God is sovereign over life and death and it all happens according to His timetable and nobody else's. Just ask a guy named Lazarus.

[NYer]

In all this coverage of the pope's golden anniversary, one alarming little item passed my desk. Apparently he knows when he's going to die. I don't know how he knows, but suffice it to say he knows. He's told his closest confidantes this and seems largely motivated by this.

It is also rumored that the next pope is one of the new cardinals, white smoke for a black pope notwithstanding.

[Scotswife]

This type of thing isn't unheard of.
If you research the events surrounding Fatima, you will see the same situation regarding Jacinta.

Jacinta revealed to Lucia that the date and hour of her death had been revealed to her.
She even knew she would be alone at the time.

Lucia confirmed it happened just as Jacinta had told her.

I have no trouble believing there is a similar situation with JPII

[Nick Danger]

I was walking through a Sharper Image store one time and I came across this "count down clock" that would tick off the seconds until you were gonna die. You would tell it some things about your age, weight, sex, exercise habits, etc., and then it would sit there and tell you how long you had.

I looked at that thing, and I thought, "Who the Hell would want to know? What a morbid thing to have around." And I can't say that I've ever actually seen one of these things in anyone's home or office. So maybe nobody ever bought one.