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I do not believe in ghosts
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magpie | Report | 14 Aug 2016 06:31 |
It's a nice thought Tabitha, but for certain no one knows anything before they're born and I don't believe we know anything after we die. It is true that the mind plays tricks on us and we see and hear what we want to see and hear, particularly in times of emotional trauma, like fleetingly seeing or hearing a much loved departed pet, thinking you see someone in the distance or shadows, coincidences that we persuade ourselves are real. For me it's all illusions that can, if we're honest be easily explained. I had a much loved uncle only a few years older than me, and just before he died he promised me that if there was an afterlife he would let me know. Well that was 21 years ago, and there's not been even a whisper! So I'm convinced there is nothing there and that It's all in the mind. I do however, believe in fate, and I know that compared to some, I have been lucky in life, my mother, after the death of my father before I was born, married a wonderful man, which gave me a very happy childhood, I was lucky with my own marriage which is now 51 years old and still full of love, two brilliant children and three lovely grandchildren who brighten our old age! |
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Tabitha | Report | 14 Aug 2016 05:43 |
Oh ye of little faith Magpie |
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magpie | Report | 13 Aug 2016 19:34 |
I expect you got the standard greeting - coincidence! |
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David | Report | 13 Aug 2016 17:31 |
BT1571 is the messages number, BT1471 tell the number of the last caller. |
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GlasgowLass | Report | 13 Aug 2016 15:45 |
When Uzzi made her OP, I had already heard about this via a friend who is a local policeman but I didn't know how to tell it without sounding daft. |
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magpie | Report | 13 Aug 2016 14:11 |
Surely it's 1471 not 1571?! Could be be you rang another of BTs help lines and a lady called Sarah answered it ?!!! |
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David | Report | 13 Aug 2016 13:52 |
Here's one I don't know what to make of. While doing my family tree I discovered that my paternal GM (Father's Mother) was named Sarah. I further discovered that she died shortly after my GF and that she and my GF are in the same grave in Belfast. |
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Tabitha | Report | 13 Aug 2016 13:39 |
David its up to you who you tell. I personally am a believer. |
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UzziAndHerDogs | Report | 13 Aug 2016 13:14 |
I am glad I am not alone with "strange " experiences. Last night Pippi (the new rescue) sat on the bed staring at the wardrobe and whimpered (as if she was trying to talk). She then went over and checked in there. I now have a small unit in there but it used to be Minx´s bed. Pip has now also taken to sleeping under the bed in the same place that Minx used to. |
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Allan | Report | 13 Aug 2016 10:55 |
You and I both, David. |
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David | Report | 12 Aug 2016 18:15 |
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Sharron | Report | 12 Aug 2016 17:57 |
If you saw your mother then you saw your mother. |
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magpie | Report | 12 Aug 2016 17:54 |
I think if something traumatic is fresh in our minds we tend to see what we want to see. In other words our minds can and do play tricks on us. I think we've all experienced that. |
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David | Report | 12 Aug 2016 17:46 |
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Sharron | Report | 12 Aug 2016 16:58 |
Fred was certainly not amused to see the tanker pull into the crematorium for his funeral. He sent a thunderclap! |
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Kense | Report | 12 Aug 2016 16:01 |
What a shame Eldrick is not still active on here. :-D. |
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David | Report | 12 Aug 2016 14:42 |
That episode that startled me I thought about for the remainder of the night (and many times since) As said I saw my Mother on the rear near side seat. At her funeral the he was delayed, another funeral in progress. I was in the car immediately behind the hearse with my wife and Aunt May, sister, all crying silently. It was teaming as I recall. As we waited I was staring at the head of her coffin a few yards away, sat in |
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Tabitha | Report | 12 Aug 2016 13:55 |
Always a great believer in life on the other side & that they still have a sense of humor. |
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David | Report | 12 Aug 2016 11:37 |
Incidently, the lady in my avatar is my Mother |
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David | Report | 12 Aug 2016 11:35 |
I think I mentioned what I'm about to post on another thread a year or two back. |
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