Psychics, ghosts, spiritual healing and other nonsense (merged threads)

[gcwhite]

Originally Posted by SE25 exile

A reference to Hamlet written by Bill Shakespeare in the sixteenth century. Since then we have had the Enlightenment and modern science, so that quote has little relevance in today's world.

Lots of stuff written by the Bard is still relevant today.

[mrgins]

Originally Posted by xmasape

It's a figure of speech, gimpy.

whoosh

[sexyrazor]

Originally Posted by Typical Palace

Still, if it's a comfort to you and you haven't been financially exploited where's the harm?

Exactamondo!

If anyone is over this neck of the words I am more than happy to take you down to Fuengi to visit Kay and then maybe your opinions may change

[Maz]

Originally Posted by Barbara4003

I'm glad I'm not married to you.

I'd have to punch you

Admit it. You wrote this post and then added the '' as an after-thought.

[James]

I also have to admit to a slightly odd thought that a punch from Barbara might be quite exciting.

[Maz]

Originally Posted by James

I also have to admit to a slightly odd thought that a punch from Barbara might be quite exciting.

Get a dungeon.

[James]

Another one?

[nathe]

Originally Posted by James

I also have to admit to a slightly odd thought that a punch from Barbara might be quite exciting.

Have you got a semi?

[Maz]

No he hasn't.

James is quite detached.

[EdMan]

I was up too late last night going through the channels and came across one called "Psychic TV'. You can imagine know the kind of thing, couple of presenters getting people to call in at stupid prices. They were doing a giving relationship advice for someone who left them a voicemail at one point.....extraordinary

[Maz]

If they are true psychics, why do they need to broadcast on TV? Surely they should just sit on a sofa and let their thoughts rampage amongst us.

[EdMan]

well obviously their clients would also have to have the power to pick up their advice telepathically, silly!

[DANGERMOUSE]

And the advertisers would need to have 'the gift' as well!

[Corporal Jones]

Originally Posted by Men At Work

You must be new here.

Questioning and requiring evidence has served the human race pretty well so far in actually getting things done.

It’s fine to say that but there are some things that are inexplicable.

Take my father’s case, for instance.

His wife passed away in December 2006. She died of bowel cancer. It had been a traumatic time for him and the family; in caring for her over the previous 6 months, but she died peacefully, with her family around her, on Boxing Day. After her death, he decided to sale his house and subsequently bought a lovely Bungalow on the Isle of Wight.

Last year, on their 52nd wedding anniversary, he was sat at his desk in the front room of his home. He was, understandably, feeling sad, dejected, and upset. Staring out of the window towards the hills that overlook his home; quite suddenly, and to his suprise, the light bulb from the small lamp that stands on top of the book case (just behind to the left of where he was sat), shot straight out of its socket (like a pop gun) and landed on the desk just in front of him. He was pretty taken aback by this, as the lamp was turned off, and the bulb was a fixed (bayonet) type (i.e. the kind you need to twist and screw into the lamp socket). Quite simply, there was no real logical explanation for what had happened; as the lamp had been turned off for at least 12 hours, the bulb was fairly new, and the lamp had been funcitioning normally for the previous 4 months he had owned it.

A few weeks later, an image of my late mother, was caught on camera; standing at the front room window of my father’s bungalow. Now, I need to make clear that my father has had very few visitors to his home and certainly none that match her description. In fact, if truth be told; he is a loner, and he insists that he has very few visitors there over the past few years. So it rules out the possibility of my father having another woman in his home!. Anyway, all I can say is that the photo, caught on camera by Google Earth, is definitely that of my late mother.

Now, you’re all, if you wish, more than welcome to laugh at this and mock me. That’s fine. But to my father and I, who don't and never have actively sought psychics to get in contact with her, know that she has presented proof to us of her survival (beyond the physical).

[Barbara4003]

Originally Posted by Maz

Admit it. You wrote this post and then added the '' as an after-thought.

No. I included the at the time as I meant it in the nicest possible way.

[BringBackSasa]

A bulb falls out of a lamp and you assume the only possible explanation is that a ghost did it?

How the **** are we supposed to respond to that without it sounding like mocking?

[Barbara4003]

Originally Posted by BringBackSasa

A bulb falls out of a lamp and you assume the only possible explanation is that a ghost did it?

How the **** are we supposed to respond to that without it sounding like mocking?

Come up with an alternative explanation, maybe?

[Corporal Jones]

Originally Posted by BringBackSasa

A bulb falls out of a lamp and you assume the only possible explanation is that a ghost did it?

How the **** are we supposed to respond to that without it sounding like mocking?

Bloody hell, calm down.

[DANGERMOUSE]

Can you post the Google Earth picture?

[OscillateWildly]

Originally Posted by Corporal Jones

Now, you’re all, if you wish, more than welcome to laugh at this and mock me. That’s fine. But to my father and I, who don't and never have actively sought psychics to get in contact with her, know that she has presented proof to us of her survival (beyond the physical).

You know no such thing.

You have given what you consider to be meaningful explanations to random events. That is fine, but do not convince yourself that you have proof. You are being closed minded in suggesting that the most unlikely explanation is the correct one.

This is what humans do; we see coincidence without considering that every other second of our life we don’t stop to notice that there aren’t any co-indices happening at that moment. We create a world full of subjective meaning out of one which is random. It helps us to understand and make sense of the world.

If spirits could be captured on film do you not think we would have millions upon millions of images of them. Consider how many photos are taken every day. Consider CCTV cameras, news cameras etc.

If spirits could communicate with us do you not think that just once we could not have recorded that or had it proved under scientific conditions?

I don't wish to mock, particularly when it is a sensitive subject, but if you make outrageous claims you should expect incredulity.