SoldierOn wrote on Mar 8th, 2010 at 6:25pm:Hello everyone,
obsessive fascination. Something I can't stop thinking about, no matter how hard I try. I say to myself that I'm being completely irrational, but am I? Is something that is inevitable really classed as a phobia?
Ha ha, obsessive fascination, I like that. SoldierOn, I think you are in the most wonderful position in the world, to not know, to constantly wonder, to have a burning thirst for knowledge...shall I go on?
The fear, the anxiety, may be good to lose. I don't see how that can totally subside, because we have a built-in fear/fascination with our own body and how it might die. This constant possibility makes our lives quite exciting, doesn't it?
Have you had any experiences which ever caused you to doubt -- uhm, your doubts? About an afterlife, that is. Anything like what Recoverer has mentioned? Any strange experiences, dreams, nudges in certain directions?
What has 'convinced' me as much as I think I'll ever really be convinced, is how similar so many people's stories are, that there is 'something' in the great beyond we call death. And, once you start to look at it, 'something' appears to be interacting with us. It's about as much fun as anything else I've ever done, just taking a look at death, and listening to everyone's stories about it.