Who believes in spooks- not talking about obama

[Tucker]

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raccoon  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Aug-05-10 10:11 AM
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Do any of you believe you've communicated with a dead loved one?
   

If so, how? Through a seance, dreams, other way?

A dream I had last night made me think of this.

KittyWampus  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Aug-05-10 10:16 AM
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4. unquestionable, yes. In dreams.

As the kitty is on the portly side, I'd say you dream is a result of the last hash brownie.

valerief  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Aug-05-10 10:17 AM
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5. We all have the capacity to hallucinate. nt

Better living through chemistry.

raccoon  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Aug-05-10 10:32 AM
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10. I'll tell you my dream. I went into a storage room next to a carport
   

(My mother, died in '03, had a carport.) I found an answering machine in it. I thought, please let there be a message on it.

But there wasn't.

No shit. She uses Fed-ex.

lunatica  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Aug-05-10 10:37 AM
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13. If I did I sure as hell wouldn't tell it on DU
   
unless I craved some heavy verbal abuse from people who claim their opinion is fact.

A voice of sanity?

And then......

Th1onein  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Aug-05-10 10:55 AM
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16. It takes courage to put something like this "out there."
   
But if it gives people comfort, it is very important to take that step.

Hey Melanie. Who's your next thug to get killed?

More Melanie.

Th1onein  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Aug-05-10 10:53 AM
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15. Yes.
   
My son and I had a "deal." He had cystic fibrosis. The deal was that, if he died, he would come back and let me know that he was okay. We spoke about this often, through the years.

My boyfriend knew nothing about this deal. But when my son died, my boyfriend (who had, literally, no imagination and would be the last person to make up something like this) told me, very excitedly, that my son had "appeared" to him, in broad daylight, in his car. He said that my son told him to tell me that he was okay and that he loved me.

This, alone, would not have convinced me. But what did convince me is that my boyfriend changed very radically, after that happened to him. He became almost an entirely different person. Very spiritual. He wanted to camp out in the graveyard at night, hoping to have another "visit." He had been a rascist for most of his life, but began going to black churches after the experience. His entire attitude about blacks, the poor, and women changed--a complete 360 degree turnaround. He told me that he knew, because of this experience, that there was life after death. When he was dying, a few years later, of cancer, he was very calm about it and would tell people that he was going to see their dead family members.

Whether the event really happened or not is something that is not for me to say. But my boyfriend was convinced of it, and the changes that it brought about in him were very real.

Bullshit. If he were a racist, you wouldn't have went out with him. You're not that desperate are you?

Well duh!! You are, so maybe the tall tale is true.

malaise  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Aug-05-10 10:58 AM
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17. My favorite aunt
   
We've talked in dreams - and she's still always smiling and giving me good advice.
She was a left-wing Bohemian if ever there was one - an absolutely wonderful human being. She never went near a religious institution on purpose but every Friday she made this huge pot of soup and baked bread and shared it with every beggar in the neighborhood.

You gotta leave the Chicken bones alone.

[JohnnyReb]

I came to this conclusion: If you hang with moonbats long enough, the blood goes to your head and kills your brain....after that you'll believe anything.

[Karin]

She was a left-wing Bohemian if ever there was one - an absolutely wonderful revolting human being.

FIFY.

I believe in ghosts.  My house used to have one.  At one point part of it used to be a bridal shop, and one day, the ghost was messing around with the wedding dresses and filled one up.  No joke.  She's gone away, for now.  Maybe she likes me living there. 
I read through the abstract of the house, and once upon a time, there was a woman named Eliza, and her brother had her committed.  The abstract referred to her as a "lunatic."  She never married, I think the ghost is her. 

[Reality vs DU]

I believe in ghosts.  My house used to have one.  At one point part of it used to be a bridal shop, and one day, the ghost was messing around with the wedding dresses and filled one up.  No joke.  She's gone away, for now.  Maybe she likes me living there. 
I read through the abstract of the house, and once upon a time, there was a woman named Eliza, and her brother had her committed.  The abstract referred to her as a "lunatic."  She never married, I think the ghost is her. 

Surely your kidding.  Ghosts??

[thundley4]

Surely your kidding.  Ghosts??

I think we have a ghost in house, but it's the ghost of our last dog.  We have both heard different sounds, like a scratching at the door, but our current dog was in the other room with the other person. Plus , before we got our current dog, both of us would think we had felt our last dog hop up on the bed.

 There are times that Missy, our current dog, will wander off into another room, and come back wagging her tail and acting excited. However, when we had first got Missy, she refused to go into the kitchen and laundry room, which is where our last dog Addie was kept when we were gone.

[dutch508]

Surely your kidding.  Ghosts??

More in Heaven and Earth, etc etc etc

[Ballygrl]

I believe in Ghosts and signs, and a woman I worked with who was sane and very Religious, as was her Daughter, she said a few times her Mother came to visit her Daughter.

We had a picnic over the weekend and my Cousin who's also sane, said that there was a Ghost in her house, she and her MIL would be in the kitchen and no 1 else was home and they'd hear someone walking upstairs, when her Daughter was 2 or 3 she told her Mother that there was a man who would come into her room at night then disappear, my Cousin got a little freaked out, so she said 1 day she went into her Daughters room and sat down and was very nice and asked the Ghost to please stop visiting her Daughter because her Daughter was frightened, her Daughter never saw the man again. It turns out that the person who owned the house before them was an old man who was doing construction on the house, and he died at the house, and the room he visited was the room my Cousins Daughter slept in and it was the only room he didn't finish.

[PatriotGame]

malaise  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Aug-05-10 10:58 AM
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17. My favorite aunt
   
We've talked in dreams - and she's still always smiling and giving me good advice.
She was a left-wing Bohemian if ever there was one - an absolutely wonderful human being. She never went near a religious institution on purpose but every Friday she made this huge pot of soup and baked bread and shared it with every beggar in the neighborhood.

I smoked a bunch of dope once - then ate four hits of acid - I saw things!!!

THEY WERE FRACKING REAL!!!111

[Texacon]

His entire attitude about blacks, the poor, and women changed--a complete 360 degree turnaround.

 

Hey, Melanie.  When someone changes their life it is a 180 degree change not a 360 degree change.  360 degrees means he was going the same way he was before!

KC

[PatriotGame]

FIFY.

I believe in ghosts.  My house used to have one.  At one point part of it used to be a bridal shop, and one day, the ghost was messing around with the wedding dresses and filled one up.  No joke.  She's gone away, for now.  Maybe she likes me living there. 
I read through the abstract of the house, and once upon a time, there was a woman named Eliza, and her brother had her committed.  The abstract referred to her as a "lunatic."  She never married, I think the ghost is her. 

I have ghosts in my underwear.
Commonly, people call them farts or "barking spiders". 

[PatriotGame]

Hey, Melanie.  When someone changes their life it is a 180 degree change not a 360 degree change.  360 degrees means he was going the same way he was before!

KC

Shush with the logic will ya?!

It spoils the DUmmy high...

[Tucker]

Hey, Melanie.  When someone changes their life it is a 180 degree change not a 360 degree change.  360 degrees means he was going the same way he was before!

KC

Good catch. How did I miss that one.

[Karin]

I know!  Dammit, I blew right past that one.     It's such a DUmp classic when they do that. 

[JohnnyReb]

Hey, Melanie.  When someone changes their life it is a 180 degree change not a 360 degree change.  360 degrees means he was going the same way he was before!

KC

She never took PLAIN geometry.

[Chris_]

I believe in Ghosts and signs, and a woman I worked with who was sane and very Religious, as was her Daughter, she said a few times her Mother came to visit her Daughter.

We had a picnic over the weekend and my Cousin who's also sane, said that there was a Ghost in her house, she and her MIL would be in the kitchen and no 1 else was home and they'd hear someone walking upstairs, when her Daughter was 2 or 3 she told her Mother that there was a man who would come into her room at night then disappear, my Cousin got a little freaked out, so she said 1 day she went into her Daughters room and sat down and was very nice and asked the Ghost to please stop visiting her Daughter because her Daughter was frightened, her Daughter never saw the man again. It turns out that the person who owned the house before them was an old man who was doing construction on the house, and he died at the house, and the room he visited was the room my Cousins Daughter slept in and it was the only room he didn't finish.

I believe in ghosts too, although I have never encountered one.

My great-grandma didn't like it when people left lights on in the house when the room was not occupied.  After she died, one of her son's moved into her house.  He would leave the kitchen light on and go upstairs for a few minutes, he said when he came back down, the light in the kitchen was off.  He said it was always the lights. 

My husband & his friend encountered a ghost in his friends haunted home.  It was a really old home.  The homeowner was killed on his porch when he went out to shoot an intruder.  This was back in the 1930's.  The victim still shows up at the house.  He slams the cupboards, doors, walks up and down the stairs, etc.  Obviously I wasn't there to see it, but I'll take their word for it.  lol

[JohnnyReb]

Why can't we talk about Obama....to me he's spooky as hell.

[Freeper]

Hey, Melanie.  When someone changes their life it is a 180 degree change not a 360 degree change.  360 degrees means he was going the same way he was before!

KC

Ha once again the most intelligent people in the universe show how stupid they really are.
I guess at least she didn't mispell it. (to lurking dummies I misspelled misspell on purpose.)
 

[Ballygrl]

I believe in ghosts too, although I have never encountered one.

My great-grandma didn't like it when people left lights on in the house when the room was not occupied.  After she died, one of her son's moved into her house.  He would leave the kitchen light on and go upstairs for a few minutes, he said when he came back down, the light in the kitchen was off.  He said it was always the lights. 

My husband & his friend encountered a ghost in his friends haunted home.  It was a really old home.  The homeowner was killed on his porch when he went out to shoot an intruder.  This was back in the 1930's.  The victim still shows up at the house.  He slams the cupboards, doors, walks up and down the stairs, etc.  Obviously I wasn't there to see it, but I'll take their word for it.  lol

I've never encountered 1 either.

[Reality vs DU]

Alright lets dig into this as I am astonished that adults believe in ghosts.  No offense to those that do but it is about as plausible to me as Santa Claus, tarot cards,  and silly superstitions like walking under a ladder.

How exactly does it work?  Does every dead person get to "come back" as a ghost?  If so, you'd think there would be a lot more of them, cause that's a lot of dead people! Ghosts would just walk around as a normal part of daily life, unless their the ones that lay low and show up every once in a while and make a few noises, just to **** with you.

How about pets?  Do they get ghosts or is this a humans only thing?  And if yes to pets, how about all life, do fish have ghosts?  Are there ghost fish swimming around?  How about algae?  Parasites?

How come my dead grandmother who I loved dearly doesn't give me the experience of sudden feelings of being cold?  Why doesn't she do like all good ghosts do and show up for a few seconds, walk through a wall and disappear?  Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I turn off all the lights at night!  Where's my ghost dammit.

I just hope someone who understands how the ghost system operates could explain it to me.

[Chris_]

I can't explain it to you because it would turn into a huge religious debate. 

[Reality vs DU]

I can't explain it to you because it would turn into a huge religious debate. 

Evil,

Are there any questions I posed you can answer without religion?  I will leave religion out of it.

[Chris_]

I'm not a very religious person, but I do respect all religions.

With that said, energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred.  So when one dies, their energy has to go some where.

I believe in reincarnation.

I'm probably not explaining it well.  That's just how I see things.

[Reality vs DU]

I'm not a very religious person, but I do respect all religions.

With that said, energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred.  So when one dies, their energy has to go some where.

I believe in reincarnation.

I'm probably not explaining it well.  That's just how I see things.

Thanks Evil.

Does reincarnation apply to all living things or just humans?

[Ballygrl]

Alright lets dig into this as I am astonished that adults believe in ghosts.  No offense to those that do but it is about as plausible to me as Santa Claus, tarot cards,  and silly superstitions like walking under a ladder.

How exactly does it work?  Does every dead person get to "come back" as a ghost?  If so, you'd think there would be a lot more of them, cause that's a lot of dead people! Ghosts would just walk around as a normal part of daily life, unless their the ones that lay low and show up every once in a while and make a few noises, just to **** with you.

How about pets?  Do they get ghosts or is this a humans only thing?  And if yes to pets, how about all life, do fish have ghosts?  Are there ghost fish swimming around?  How about algae?  Parasites?

How come my dead grandmother who I loved dearly doesn't give me the experience of sudden feelings of being cold?  Why doesn't she do like all good ghosts do and show up for a few seconds, walk through a wall and disappear?  Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I turn off all the lights at night!  Where's my ghost dammit.

I just hope someone who understands how the ghost system operates could explain it to me.

I believe it because I've spoken to a few sane people who've experienced it. I also watch Ghost shows on TV and I believe it. My Dad had surgery a couple of years before he died, and during that surgery he said he died on the table and saw the Doctors working on him, I worked at the Hospital at that time and I was working when he was on the Operating Room table and his PCP was paged stat to the OR, when my Dad woke-up in the Recovery Room he was terrified, he told us what happened but my Mom and I didn't believe it, at that time people never spoke about those things. My Father was sane, didn't believe in things like that at all but he believed it after his experience, and when he had to have a Hernia repaired about a year later he refused to go under General Anesthesia and would only have a local Anesthetic, the Surgeon agreed to it and was amazed that my father was able to handle that.

[Chris_]

Thanks Evil.

Does reincarnation apply to all living things or just humans?

I don't know really.  I mean, maybe you can be reincarnated to an animal and vice-versa.