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When it's your time to go, is it your time to go?
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vateacher
Senior Member
the best offense is a good defense. I am all about running away if given the chance. Someone tries to come after me and they have a gun, I'm praying they don't have good aim and running in the opposite direction in a serpentine path. I'm not hanging around long enough to get close enough to mace/tazer them-- no way, no how! I am a wimp about guns as well so no, you're not odd and you're not alone.
I am with you. Granted, I do live in a country with gun control so I never grew up with guns. I understand people want to protect themselves, but I would be afraid of the accidents that can occur. Plus there is the reality of me being able to pull out a gun when I really need to when I can hardly get to my cell phone before it goes to voicemail. Just my opinion.
klarabelle
Senior Member
No Your Not Odd In your Feelings
I agree on this whole gun thing. Its crazy, no one is talking sense.
I do believe in the Big Book in the sky, and our destiny has been decided to an extent.
I agree on this whole gun thing. Its crazy, no one is talking sense.
I do believe in the Big Book in the sky, and our destiny has been decided to an extent.
teachermrse
Senior Member
I am with you
I do think when it is my time to go then I will go. My father was a police officer and I grew up around guns and was taught to shoot a gun and more importantly gun safety. There is no way I would want to carry a gun at school. I don't think it is odd at all.
I do think when it is my time to go then I will go. My father was a police officer and I grew up around guns and was taught to shoot a gun and more importantly gun safety. There is no way I would want to carry a gun at school. I don't think it is odd at all.
babush
Full Member
I dreamt about a car accident for many months
and I finally had the accident. My son was in the car with me and I am glad he was. He got out, talked to everyone at the scene, and he was a go between with the police officer (who just blamed me for everything even though I was hit on quarter panel and already through light).
I am glad it happened as my son is a new driver and he was so prepared at the scene, it was amazing. I am glad I had the accident and know he will be fine if in an accident or sees one in the future.
So, yes, there is a destiny you cannot change. No one can. But do certainly go with feelings if something is not right to protect you from harm if possible "gut feelings" etc.
and I finally had the accident. My son was in the car with me and I am glad he was. He got out, talked to everyone at the scene, and he was a go between with the police officer (who just blamed me for everything even though I was hit on quarter panel and already through light).
I am glad it happened as my son is a new driver and he was so prepared at the scene, it was amazing. I am glad I had the accident and know he will be fine if in an accident or sees one in the future.
So, yes, there is a destiny you cannot change. No one can. But do certainly go with feelings if something is not right to protect you from harm if possible "gut feelings" etc.
BioAdoptMom3
Senior Member
I am not sure I believe the when it's your time to go it's your time to go. Like many of you here I am person of faith but I believe that God has given us free will and things can just happen. I don't think God actually plans out "our time to go"!
Nancy
Nancy
I still don't want a gun. 
timeforbed
Senior Member
I would have no problem shooting someone after exhausting all other avenues.
As for fate? I think you have to be very careful with that idea. Our brains give us so many options that I'm not too sure it's safe to entertain that thought. When my body quits and nothing more can be done, then fine. It's time to let go. But putting an idea in my head that it may be time to die when faced with a dangerous situation isn't something I would want to do. It's fight or flight time for me.
I've reworded this several times because I don't want it to come off as rude. This is what works for me. I recognize that others may feel differently about taking a life, and I respect their feelings.
As for fate? I think you have to be very careful with that idea. Our brains give us so many options that I'm not too sure it's safe to entertain that thought. When my body quits and nothing more can be done, then fine. It's time to let go. But putting an idea in my head that it may be time to die when faced with a dangerous situation isn't something I would want to do. It's fight or flight time for me.
I've reworded this several times because I don't want it to come off as rude. This is what works for me. I recognize that others may feel differently about taking a life, and I respect their feelings.
I just don't *think* I could shoot someone. Maybe. Not sure. 
Lady Teacher
Senior Member
Your time to go
I also don't know that I believe this. Does that mean that when you are born you have a pre-determined clock for your life? If so, then does that mean there is nothing that you can do to change the outcome? Does that mean that every decision you make is the decision that you were supposed to make? If you get drunk and decide to jump off a building if you die it was your time and if you don't it wasn't? What if you decided not to get drunk in the first place? If you oversleep and miss the big pile up on the freeway it wasn't meant for you to be in it? I don't know that I believe that necessarily.
I also don't know that I believe this. Does that mean that when you are born you have a pre-determined clock for your life? If so, then does that mean there is nothing that you can do to change the outcome? Does that mean that every decision you make is the decision that you were supposed to make? If you get drunk and decide to jump off a building if you die it was your time and if you don't it wasn't? What if you decided not to get drunk in the first place? If you oversleep and miss the big pile up on the freeway it wasn't meant for you to be in it? I don't know that I believe that necessarily.
I don't know. I guess I'm just pondering it...
I don't engage in risky behaviors (driving drunk, hanging out in the city late at night, etc.) so I don't think I will die due to my own risky behaviors. My decisions on how to live are pretty 'safe'.
My own brother drove drunk and drove off a cliff. He ended up a quadriplegic. Was it not his time to die? Who knows. His twin sister died at 26 days of SIDS. Was it her time to die? There is no answer. I'm just pondering it based upon recent events. Were those people just in the wrong place at the wrong time? (Rhetorical...).
One of life's mysteries.
knitting987!
Senior Member
I am kind of with Nancy. God allows stuff to happen that we don't understand. He does not plan when and how we go but he does allow it, the part I don't get. So as for the teachers with guns, I have to think about that a lot more. Do we want a gun in each mall shop with the cashier using it? Do we want guns in Walmart and McDonalds? All questions equally worth asking.