Re: She Died

[DamnEmoKids]

Death is something that happens to the liveing? NO SHIT?

[ehenocka]

as in, death, or the impact thereof, happens not to the deceased person, but to those who survive them

[jollingson]

you need to repent and ask jesus to enter your heart!

He has changed my life forever.

before I used to concentrate on everything that did not count. I studied I got perfect grades I pursued knowledge. I wanted something more!

then jesus changed my life it took away depression it took everything painful!

ask jesus into your life! he is the life!

[Mummer85]

Can't see the original video, but this was enthralling. Not many videos make me think anymore on Youtube.

[heismahalko]

do you really know JESUS??? do you believe in HIM??? just repent to HIM have faith give your 100% to GOD our FATHER... John 3:16...

[nbeardsley]

Your work is very honest, and it is appreciated.

[jeanetteaw]

I told you you have deep rooted issues. You did not even know the girl. I told you it just did not strike me as believable. My point with the Holy Spirit. There are those who can "pick up" what is real, and what is not. In any case, you are talented. Know this though, we will all die. You will die, and I will die. When we die, we will stand before God to be judged.

[tonidi21]

I wish I could've posted a video response but my good computer is out of commission so I hope this works.

I had a friend who died in a car accident before my senior year of high school. I didn't know him too well, but his death had to be one of the most significant events of my life. It got me questioning. I was raised Catholic, went to Catholic school all of my life and had an extreme belief in God, my religion, morality, etc.

[tonidi21]

After his death I started to question everything. I spent two years as an Atheist, campaigning against all of those things I once believed (many of which were terrifying, in retrospect). However I kept questioning, and my experience over the last two years has brought me back to belief in God. It's a really long story as to that happened, and I know it might be upsetting for an Atheist to hear. What I learned is that if you keep questioning the answers will come.

[ehenocka]

I don't consider myself an atheist anymore (although I don't believe in God...) I think spirituality and irrational thought are huge and beautiful parts of the human experience. I think religion can kill, I think religion can save, and although I continue to philosophize my life, and my philosophy changes just as my physical self does, I have no desire to "campaign" anymore, as you say.

[ehenocka]

I think that there is no such thing as Truth because both sides of any argument are debatable. But I do believe in personal truths, which we can sometimes put into question.

[jollingson]

John Paul Sartre stated life has no meaning.

This is so true, but not Jesus christ is the most powerful one who gave life a meaning!

He changed my life and helped me with depression and terrible things!

If you are scared of death then you have no assurance where you will go! I have no fear of death I am CERTAIN of where I am going to go because I feel forgiven and loved and know what god wants of me. email me if you want to know more and have happiness! and meaning if you are scared of death!

[funknotik]

Then there is consensus reality in which we KNOW religion causes severe problems. This is the Truth no question about it. I also don't understand why you would say irrational thought is a beautiful part of the human experience? When it's killing people it ceases to be beautiful. If you mean believing in the tooth fairy then thats something else, that is called CHILDHOOD.

[arconus]

up your alley

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ~Leonardo Da Vinci :P

my take on it is roughly along these line "if death is I'm not ... if I'm death is not ... why should i concern myself with something that cant coexist with me" Eurupides <--- as far as i remember sorry couldnt find the original quote :/

[ehenocka]

Lately I've been feeling like our lives are about filling the expanse of our life-time with drama, discovery, and other various distractions while we wait.

[arconus]

well ... don't wait ... and fill it up with something better then drama and discovery ... fill it up with joy ... fellowship .. and innovative work ... and most of all enjoy it while it lasts.

sorry if i sound cliche ... i really wish u best

[arconus]

"the death of one is a tragedy ... the death of milions is just statistics" Merlin Menson <-- not my idol but this one he got quite right ^^

[bearpie12]

Did the zit under your right nare hurt?

[Willbo29]

Sweetie, judging by some of the replies that you received from your video, maybe you shouldn't have posted it.

[FlyBoy276]

...I had the tv on when I fell asleep one day, and somehow "knew" to wake up, right before her picture shows up on morning news. I didn't "really" know her, but I was upset for the longest time over it. Just..makes you think, I guess.

[FlyBoy276]

...Well, when I went over there, she had a friend over, that turned out to be the sister of a girl I knew from french. We walked, talked, yadda yadda. Long story short, the last day of freshman year, that girl was raped and killed by someone she thought of as a friend...

[FlyBoy276]

People should get a life and stop the spam. Anyways, I can relate to the emotion in both of these videos. I few years back, I took a walk around my subdivision with an old friend that lives across the street. We hadn't talked in ages, and it was around the time where we were going off to college....

[SonOfMan2]

He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can withstand his icy blast?

He sends his word and melts them; he stirs up his breezes, and the waters flow.

He has revealed his word to Jacob, his laws and decrees to Israel.

He has done this for no other nation; they do not know his laws. Praise the LORD.

[SonOfMan2]

for he strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses your people within you.

He grants peace to your borders and satisfies you with the finest of wheat.

He sends his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly.

He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes.

[SonOfMan2]

He provides food for the cattle and for the young ravens when they call.

His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of a man;

the LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.

Extol the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion,

[SonOfMan2]

Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit.

The LORD sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground. Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make music to our God on the harp.

He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills.

[SonOfMan2]

Psalm 147Praise the LORD. [a] How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him!

The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the exiles of Israel. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.

[cjunk351]

Read Ecclesiastes in the bible. I am atheist, but I still see this book as a type of blog entry. :)

King Solomon (if he existed) still believes in a 'God' of somekind, but you can still see is message there.

[kogomelacaga]

i am not afraid of dying. Death is separation. Your soul separates from this earthly body. It does not mean that you stop from existing. The only death one should be afraid of is the spiritual death. You separated from God. Jesus still loves you. He came to give you life, to unite you with our heavenly Father. Let Him b your light. John 11:25, 26

[FRANCIQUE101]

That's so true....the seperation from the body. When I think about it I feel scared, not having experienced death, will it be painful? do you have nightmares whilst dying? What is the spirit realm like? will I see my body as my soul is leaving? will my soul be alone or will there be others? Do I become a ghost? These questions scare me but I know I have to pray about them.

[FRANCIQUE101]

Sorry, Emily I thought you were maybe faking it about your friend. I had people I new very well die and it's not nice, the sense of loss is permanent and I often imagine how good life would be if they were still here....but welcome to the real world.

[ehenocka]

Do you still think that, because I wouldn't fake something like this, I have a heart.

Sorry about your friends, no one I've been that close to has died yet. I can't imagine what it feels like.

[FRANCIQUE101]

Yes, I think you have a heart. Having a heart means you care about others and about others feelings. Empathy is a noble emotion, when I go to friends funerals I try to imagine how the bereaved relatives feel so I can mourn with them. I don't think it's the right place to be comical. Other peoples death can change you, so that you don't take people for granted so much.

[MetaBob]

Hi ehenocka. I'm glad you're back. You make the kind of videos we need more of in the YT atheist community, and YT in general. I'm replying with one of my old vids that seems to me to speak to what you're wrestling with. Sorry it's not a custom reply, which I would do if I had the time and focus right now.

[phillyx86x]

Even if you knew all 30 personally, the mind wouldn't know where to begin trying to account for all of their passings. I don't think the brain is able to comprehend something so complex. To further complicate things is when you don't know the people personally. I was giving that some thought and I wondered that if you didn't know who a person was then were they ever really alive in to you anyway.

[phillyx86x]

When you were mentioning that 30 people died and then compared it to one person dying it reminded me of a quote from Joseph Stalin when he said, "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." I have a couple opinions on that since I'm always thinking too much but my first thought was that our ability to grieve is not able to extend to large amounts of people dying.

[FRANCIQUE101]

My faith gives me confidence to die. I don't want to die, I want to live because I enjoy being alive. A part of growing up is realising you're mortal and coming to terms with that fact. I don't want to die but I must come to terms with reality. What are we going to do with our limited existence?

[FRANCIQUE101]

Hi Emily,

this is constructive, in sharing the things you reflect on, you can help others to reflect. Some people go through life not taking stock of their life or the life of others. Jokes aside, you are a very inteligent person. How you choose to use that ability is up to you, I think the strong should help the weak not mock them.

[Lazybone696]

Unless of course you think there is a God (as i unashamedly do), then you'd just have to settle for leading a good, charitable life the best you can, and not worry about it.

[Lazybone696]

Your state of existence after you're dead, i heard is just like your state of existence before you were born. Soooo, just relax and stop worrying about this death stuff. Eventually we're all going to die anyway, so who cares? *ugh*

[Lazybone696]

The first time my parents told me that when I died i was going to be buried deep in the ground ( I was 6, i think), I cried so tirelessly, and at the end, i told them to place my dead body on a tree, not deep deep in the ground! haha :)

[TisroIoc]

At the the risk of being unpopular I have to tell you the format of this video is offensive.

You're talking about a girls death. Yet you present it in some very student style, cheesily edited, location changing format designed to convey the impression of prolonged thought. It looks like you're talking about a date with some guy on a trash reality TV show.

I know you like art and mabye this is how you manifest your thinking. However if I was a relative of that girl I would be offended.

Sorry.

[ehenocka]

I tried to record the video multiple times, hence the many different clips. I found it difficult to say all that I wanted to, so, rather than make a script, I cut up my footage and collaged it together.

[gklr]

Keep it real and thanks for sharing it.

[Evilmushy]

For me dead it the Ultimate Freedom.

No more worries about anything.

I Probably would have killed myself a few years back, but then I realise I would have left the world to Irrational dumbass religious people..

So I am alive to put a bit of common sense into them, if they can understand that is..

[FRANCIQUE101]

I'm glad you chose not to end it. Your life is precious and there are others that value it, ie friends and family. Sharing your experiences with others can help others to have hope, we need hope to keep going in life, never lose hope.

[FRANCIQUE101]

By the way the aboe comment is for Evilmushy

[Evilmushy]

Thanks for you comment FRANCIQUE101.

No I don't lose Hope, well not anymore.. :)

I believe I will live my life.. till whatever and whenever it end.. Thanks..

[FRANCIQUE101]

Great.....because to every action, there is a re-action, we all carry influence good or bad. We can use our influence on others for the good or bad it's our choice. adolf Hitler was a gifted man and a born charismatic leader, he chose to use his leadership abilities to influence others for evil - just think if he had chosen otherwise how much good he coulld have done.

[Metallimeister]

also....

if you only get one life... good/bad/indifferent you mightaswell see how it goes rather than just waste it... right

[FRANCIQUE101]

Yes...because in life you have high's and lows. During the low periods we can feel so low we wonder if it's worth going on. But life can have exciting twists where there are times you feel awesome and inspired to do stuff.

[joestl314]

Who is the guy? It sounds like Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear. Otherwise...very good. ;-)

[Metallimeister]

I'm not afraid of dying.

we are all gonna die. It's wot gives life meaning innit?

[FRANCIQUE101]

How does death give life meaning? I thought death makes life meaningless because whatever you were doing in life comes to an end.

[Metallimeister]

well exactly!

if you lived forever you would take everything for granted

[Cristofer7]

bravo!!! well done... all of it... U really put it out there...

[mavaddat]

I do think there is an important lesson here beyond this specific death. It relates to what you said about our indifference to suicide bombs relative to the Virginia Tech deaths. There's an important connection between what affects you emotionally, and what you consider wrong. There's an element of the sacred that comes with that feeling too. Birth, death, love and sex I think are all events that people consider somehow sacred because of the depth of emotion connected to those events.

[Eldelacuchuca]

Im sorry, I gave you one star by mistake, I ment to give you five...

[pdoeman]

I'm not scared of being dead, the dying process could be pretty scary though.

We all know what it is like to be dead, its the same experience we had before we were born.

[slawek7]

Being dead will be just like the time before we were born. That, somehow, helps me a bit. :) Thanks for sharing that which surely was much easier to keep to yourself.

[clockworkhorrorshow]

I've lost friends to suicide, motorcycle accidents, and disease...it hurts. It never really goes away. Otherwise, obla-di-bla-da. Roll the dice and slowly bleed out.

[phillyx86x]

I'll just use a quote from John Lennon to explain how I view death. "I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another."

[CousinoMacul]

Wow. Your videos are emotionally all over the place, but you somehow seem to make it work regardless of the topic or the attitude you're taking.

[AngryLittleGirI]

I'm not worried about dying. After all when you are dead you won't know if you did everything you could have in your life. It's living that I'm most scared of. To still be alive and to know you haven't lived enough, that's my biggest fear.

[SirIsaacNewton]

It would be sad to die and have un-sung songs within you.

The New York trip in April looked fun (except for the rain). Did you wave at the Today's Show?

[Brianj1234]

I admire you for being able to talk about your emotions and feelings and put it up on youtube.

On a completely frivilous note, I like the editing, and hopping from view to view in this one. Were you on the phone in one scene?

[HanifXHier]

Death does confusing things to the living, the only ones left to perceive. When you try to start perceiving non-perception...well, you know.