"All me life flashed before me eyes! It was really boring."
Posted on 10/22/2006 7:34:10 AM PDT by Dark Skies
Avraham Yosef was 25 years old when he died for the first time. "I was an electrician, and I was working in an industrial building when I unplugged the drill I was using, slipped, and got electrocuted,"...
"I screamed and then lost consciousness," he says. "My brother who was working with me heard me scream and called an ambulance. But by the time they got me to the emergency room, I was dead."
At Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek hospital, doctors administered paddles to his chest and attempted to defibrillate his heart, but to no avail. Minutes later, they declared Yosef dead, but suggested to the family that they double the electrical voltage of the defibrillator in an attempt to shock his heart and resuscitate him. He was already dead, they reasoned, and therefore it would do no harm to try.
The family agreed, and the voltage was increased to 1000 watts - a quantity the physicians admitted they had never attempted when administering an electric shock to a patient's heart. Yosef's heart began to beat again, albeit faintly, and the relieved doctors reported that he was alive.
But Yosef had been clinically dead for seven minutes, and the risks of brain damage were high, they warned his family, and chances were that due to the trauma his brain suffered, he would never be the same again.
When he awoke days later, Yosef was in a severely weakened state and had no memory of the accident. Upon returning home two weeks later, his wife had to take care of him as one would a baby...
And then suddenly, while sitting at home one day, Yosef remembered everything, and as his doctors predicted, he would never be the same again.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
This article is published in the Magazine Section of the Jerusalem Post today and should get wide readership in Israel.
That has to be the most boring NDE I've ever read. Figures it'd come from the son of a rabbi. It's basically the warning over Soddom and Gomorrah all over again for Israel.
This struck me as a undermining the while enterprise, though:
"the Arab nations will conquer Israel for a period of nine months to a year, after which God will perform a miracle and free us from their oppression, willing us to repent and reform"
If God wills us to repent and reform, why is he threatening Israel unless they repent and reform? Just wave the magic wand, already, and stop blaming people for what you can do yourself. Oy!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
What I thought was strange was that this event occurred in 1968 and spoke of an Israeli nuclear capacity, but Israel presumably didn't test a nuclear weapon until 1979.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
This...
God will perform a miracle and free us from their oppression, willing us to repent and reform...
says 'willing', not 'wanting.'
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I think you're saying this man's NDE isn't any sort of message from God, and I agree.
Watt are they talking about?
It is clearly said in the bible that if the people of Israel will not repent and reform, G_d will force it upon them. G_d will send one cataclysm after another, one army after another until Israel realizes they must turn to G_d or be annihiliated. And turn to HaShem they will.
The prophet Isaiah clearly speaks of it:
"Zachu - Achishena. Lo Zachu - Be'ita". Literally tranlates to: "They've earned it, I shall bring it forth at once. They haven't earned it, it will come in time of G_d choosing".
If the people Israel repent and turn to G_d, the "Geula" and the Messiah will come at once. If the people of Israel have not turned to G_d, G_d will choose the appropriate time and place to bring the "Geula" (salvation) upon them.
The point I'm trying to make is: Salvation will be upon the Jews whether they want it or not. But G_d is giving Israel the choice. Turn to Him and you will recieve the "Geula" immediately. Or you can wait until G_d decides when is the right time for it.
This message for Israel is Deuteronomy 30:15 exactly. I believe it very well may be a prophetic word. No where did I see a call to abandon the Torah but rather a call back to God's Word.
Brother please...that is an overwhelmingly incompetent belief. What, did God develop laryngitis?
I think they mean 1000 watt-seconds (joules).
Statement makes no sense. Voltage is not measured in Watts, and the "charge" is usually referred to in both voltage (measured in Volts or kiloVolts) and the total energy delievered, in Joules.
This is completely out of my field, but isn't a "watt" defined as 1 joule per second.
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"All me life flashed before me eyes! It was really boring."
LOL
Gosh, when it happened to me, I lost all sense of time for the duration, didn't see any bright lights, and woke up as ornery as ever when it was over.
I feel slighted...
But then again it only took 2 shots of the defibrillator to bring me back. ; )
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