Quote:Spitfire,
I have been enjoying your post for a while now. Some members here don't get british good old sarcasm but I do.
Anyway, it's just so great the way you try to prove the afterlife to yourself. You keep on exposing your personal doubts in hope that someone here can tear them apart but they never will and you know that. I don't think your heart is open to that.
Why would you only tell about the negative points in the tv program with the psychics? Why wasn't it worth to mention the psychic able to match up all five couples and all the validations offered about the WWII pub by all of them. Specially the woman who made the bartender cry giving details of his dead friend. You are not being impartial here.
I have doubts myself but my heart is open.
Skeptics will be skeptics and I have the proof at home living with me. My partner is so clueless about spirituality that it wouldn't surprise me if in a previous life he had been the ant you speak about in one of your post. If you look up skeptic in the dictionary there next to the definition is a picture of my partner, even though on Dec 00 he got first hand validation of the afterlife.
His granddad was dying and as he visited with him during his last few hours he told him that he knew he was dying because they had come to get him.
Now, we are talking of someone (the granddad) living in a 5 house village in the middle of nowhere with no running water, where electricity gets cut off in the early evening. He grew up in a country separated from the world by its communist government and ghosts to him are inhabitants of the forest that can make people crazy and have been known to kill as well. It will be decades before anyone can introduce new age ideas to these people however they do get to experience things like parting visions.
I would have thought that kind of validation would change my partner's mind but it hasn't. Skeptic will always look for the fifth leg of the cat instead of just accepting the evidence. I think you are the same and probably won't open your heart until you are dead, and can experience the afterlife for yourself.
When I think about it I feel that parting vision should have been witnessed by me. I so wish it had been me but as they say God give bread to the toothless.
Peace.
SC
Ello sun,
I am open to proof, but as someone once said extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. What is more importent then proof of the afterlife?..thus is requires firm and solid evidence.
Your right about the psychic program though, i was quite aggroed when i made that post, and did'nt feel like analysing both sides of the argument.
The psychic program was pretty pants though....the pregnant woman and the married couples....they were just guessing. I got more right by logical deduction then they did. these chumps are ment to be the best from 2000 people....it really gives psychics a bad name. They could have researched that pub before going there - and they could feel thats a medal, thus concluding...who gets a medal...military- though the one who made the connection with the guy stood in the room- was more impressive then the other smucks. the pregnant woman should have scored 100% in my views for them to rpove they had some talent. But anyway im hoping for some better tests this week
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When the brain starts shutting down, it starts to imagine things....i remember when my grandmother was in hospital on the verge of death, she said she saw aliens behind her bed?...
I would'nt call that proof though, because it's to easily explainable.
your right though, theres a line inbetween skeptics and psychics.... a psychic feels a breeze and says theres jesus is in the room....while a skeptic has I AM ALIVE carved into there living room wall and thinks a can of paint as exploded during the middle of the night.
I do think 99.9% of psychics are fake though. But, theres 1 psychic i know - to which i have alot of faith in the abilities of, and his name is gorden smith, aka "the psychic barber". He does'nt say...i have someone here who loves you....yada yada. He's like "i have a young man here". "his name is steve" - "he died quickly in a traffic accident" - "your his mother doris ar'nt you".
Now thats what i call impressive. This is the type of proof, i can believe and defend.
If i put all my money on 1 bet on a roulette wheel based on a drunks advice, i would be a fool. Thats how i feel alot of the times....because people who have obe's are like the drunk, but there high on love juice and self dellusion. ( apart from a few, DocM, Justin, Bets).
If i placed my bet all on 1 number of a roulette wheel when it's landed on the same number for the past 100,000 spins, i would say thats a good bet.
It's just....massively life altering...and such a massive claim, needs massive proof. I hope i find it:).
Thanks for your reply.
-Spit-