March 2007

This newsletter is not going to be your standard fare, as it is intended to make people stop, think, and look at things in ways they may have never considered before. I may personally disagree with some of the info presented in these newsletters, so don't assume I endorse every statement, article, etc., published or linked too here:

SUICIDE IS NOT AN EXIT FROM A LIFE OF PAIN & MISERY I deal with many troubled people, and far too many of the seem to believe suicide is a way out of their problems. Please read this article I wrote, BEFORE you throw your life away and learn the truth the HARD WAY: SUICIDE IS NOT AN EXIT FROM A LIFE OF PAIN & MISERY Many people foolishly assume suicide is an exit from a problem filled life, and the gateway to an eternity of nothingness. The truth is NOTHING ever ceases to exist, and even scientists know this to be a fact. Since we will exist for eternity, only a very foolish person would want to dwell in a place that offers even MORE misery and pain than they could possibly endure here on earth. Every time someone takes their own life, they slap God and everyone they CLAIM to love in the face. Suicide is the most selfish act a person can commit, as it causes a lot of grief and tears for others who love and care about them. Suicide is the beginning of eternal problems, and it is not a cure for temporal ones. Everything, and every wicked person who ever lived, will be your neighbor forever, if you take your own life. Any type of misery you may have suffered on earth will be magnified a million times or more, in a place you will reside in FOREVER. One second after you take your life, your will beg God to restore your life. Sadly, it will be too late for you. The enemy of your soul will dance and shout gleefully, as he watches your react in horror after seeing the reality of your eternal fate. Even people who died because of circumstances beyond their control, will mock you for casting away life as if it were garbage! People who burned alive in the twin towers will HATE you for caring so little for life, as the lost souls who died in the tragedy already know what you have just discovered. Life is precious, and salvation is ONLY offered to us while we live and reside here on earth. They will despise you for throwing away something they only WISH they could retrieve. Most people who have serious problems here on earth, are those who attempt to live life without the guidance and the salvation God has made available to everyone. When "we do our own thing" and assume we can do good on our own, it is like smoking cigarettes in a pool of gasoline. Eventually, we will ignite the very fire that will destroy us. No matter if you believe in God or not, the fact is suicide is not a way out of your troubles. As long as you live, you have options available to you. Many people who came close to committing suicide, now have wonderful testimonies regarding how life changed after they decided to "stick it out" instead of giving up. Parents, friends, and spouses, may not treat you the way you feel they should, but taking your own life is mistreating YOURSELF in the most violent and long lasting way possible. The rich man in hell begged Abraham to send someone back to earth to warn his brothers, so they would not have to endure what he was experiencing for eternity. (see Luke 16, beginning at verse 19) If you think you have troubles now, you really know NOTHING about the things to come after death. If you did, you would quake in fear and thank God for every heartbeat! Suicide is not an exit, it is the entrance to the bottomless pit God wants you to avoid at all costs. Some people speculate as to the answer to the question of, "do ALL people who commit suicide go to hell?" I believe God knows the heart, and ONLY God can understand and deal with people who commit suicide because of mental illness and other things we cannot fully understand. By default, hell is the domain for those who take their own life. If you want to chance being an exception to this rule, you most likely think you can win the lottery too… p.s. The ANSWER to all of your problems is: John chapter 3 15: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17: For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18: He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Brother Charles

IN CLOSING: (from my email files, sent by Larry DeVine.)

1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

2) I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. - Winston Churchill

3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

4) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

5) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

6) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

7) Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

8) Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. - Ronald Reagan (1986) add: If it dies, tax it.

9) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

10) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. - P.J .. O'Rourke

11) In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire (1764)

12) Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C)

13) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain (1866)

14) Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it. Unknown

15) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. - Winston Churchill

16) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

17) A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

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