What do you believe

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is really out there in the supernatural world? Aside from religious beliefs what things or beings do you believe in? I am a firm believer in ghosts and maybe because of my mom being native american and irish it enforces my beliefs and dad is irish so maybe it enforces it that much more. I am a christian and I will tell anyone that but the christian religion actually makes my beliefs in some things stronger. I have always believed there were lots of things in the world that most people can't see. If not why would I have the abilitity to sense when someone is pregnant before they even know or when someone is going to die whether it be a loved one or a patient or just in general and how would I be able to even have the strange ability to think of something as silly as a very old episode of a show I like and the next thing I know its on the tv or a song I like and its on the radio. And even being able to tell when someone is in a room with me long before I see or even hear them. And besides long before tvs and the internet people from across large distances would tell stories of the same types of creatures and this was long before the ability to know what another culture was seeing by comunication.
So I just wondered what everyone believes
 

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I'm a Christian, but I do believe in ghosts--mainly because I have seen them over my lifetime, and have no other rational explanation for what I saw--and believe, me, as a former-non-believer, I have tried to think of every explanation.

DH does not believe in ghosts. However, he can't answer the question I pose to him: you believe in a God you can't see, hear, smell, and touch, with unshakeable faith (which is also true about me, of course!), yet you say ghosts don't exist because you think the idea is crazy, you've not seen one, etc. Don't you think this same God could create an afterlife and ghosts??? Why not? After all, ghosts were once once alive, soild objects. Why couldn't they leave some sort of imprint? Also, I think that God has created one or two mystical/occult things that we can't explain, or perhaps He doesn't want us to explain them yet for some reason.

And, there are ghosts mentioned in the Bible!
 

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Well I definately do not believe in UFOs. Why haven't I seen one? Don't know anyone who has. I have spent many nights outside and we live out where you can see the sky pretty well. Nothing.

As far as ghosts go, you never know there. I believe there is more to heaven and earth than we will ever know. I think the hereafter is nearer to our daily lives than we think.
 

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I only believe in ghost because the things have popped up when other people were present with me.

Originally Posted by farleyv

Well I definately do not believe in UFOs. Why haven't I seen one? Don't know anyone who has. I have spent many nights outside and we live out where you can see the sky pretty well. Nothing.
I do. I've seen things I can't identify. I don't believe extraterrestrials were involved, though.
 

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I know theres got to be other things going on. Have seen after coming home from putting a cat to sleep my others seem to play with ghost...so its not just me


I have some odd senses to. I firmly believe while driving I have been helped as few times I take some whacked way home to find out normal way had accident or even just really bad traffic.

Then again it does freak me out a bit. When going upstairs I often get feeling of being watched and HATE that. I have seen stuff at one house we lived at for about 10 years that really left some ?'s. I woke up one day passed the bathroom/laundry with a bright light coming out...I RAN! out the house.

Refused to go in till family returned and when mom did she didnt play it down as much as I thought she would-she saw something similar earlier in the day!!! we all used to see a human all black figure go from my room to moms at end of hallway. Even my serious as can be brother who never admited anything like that saw it. It was a man from the sense and would look at kitchen while walking into the bedroom. Also brothers bedroom wasmore towards kitchen/across from bath and never saw anything but dreamed of some very strange things-found out years later mom and sister did too-another room being off his room.
 

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I don't think that all things can be explained, or for that matter need an explanation. Humans seem to find a need to place a label on everything, and need some kind of proof that it's either true or false.

It may be that some doubt needs to exist on some matters in order to get reluctant belief.
 

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I absolutely believe in ghosts as my Mom's family grew up in a haunted house and all of them have told me many stories about the house. My Grandfather (RIP Pop) also once saw a UFO, and he was probably one of the most practical people I have ever known.
 

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I believe in inifinite possibilities, that there are an infinite number of universes, and that there are certainly dimensions we don't normally perceive.

There are spectrums of light we're not aware of perceiving and there are ranges of sound we cannot hear. Why wouldn't there be other dimensions we're not usually aware of?

We call them "supernatural" because they are beyond our normal range of perception - our definition of "natural."

I also believe there is other intelligent life in this universe. But given that our technology achieved the ability to "send" signals out of our atmosphere only 80 years or so ago, so I also think that unless any of that intelligent life has figured out how to travel outside of time as we perceive it, it is a statistical improbability that any of that intelligent life has found its way to us.
 

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I don't believe in anything supernatural because I haven't seen any evidence of it, but I am not losing hope, I really like being creeped out and I wouldn't mind seeing a ghost or two even if they are not nice
 

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I do belive in ghosts after seeing more than my share, I also belive some people are more intuitive than others leading to "knowing" about things before they happen. I can give a grain of salt to other phenominon as I have expereanced or see a basis in sceintific facts.

I also belive in Ufo's as i have seen things I can't explain. And I do belive there is other life out there. I am not so self absorbed to think were the only living planet out there.

Now do I think aliens are comming here and shoveing probes up peoples butts?.. Heck no. If they have space travel I am pretty sure they developed a better way to observe and gather information about our planet than shoveing things up peoples arses.
 

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I believe there are things we have no explanation for. I definitely believe in angels. I will share this experience. My dad died last year in May. He lay in a semi-conscious state all day long on Friday, Friday night and all day Saturday. He would no longer squeeze our hand to signal he realized what we were saying. On Saturday night, his eyes opened. I was in the room with him along with my two sisters and my husband. Dad opened his eyes, and we could tell he recognized all of us. His mouth would open and shut as he was trying to talk to us. My sisters were singing Jesus Loves Me to him. Suddenly Dad's eyes focused on the ceiling to his right. They lit up and his eyes travelled all the way across the room to the left. We could tell he was seeing something as he smiled. When his eyes got all the way to the left, he took his last breath and was gone. It was the most spectacular thing I have ever witnessed as we could tell something he knew and recognized came into the room and he left with it. Now I am crying. Sorry.
 

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Originally Posted by blueyedgirl5946

I believe there are things we have no explanation for. I definitely believe in angels. I will share this experience. My dad died last year in May. He lay in a semi-conscious state all day long on Friday, Friday night and all day Saturday. He would no longer squeeze our hand to signal he realized what we were saying. On Saturday night, his eyes opened. I was in the room with him along with my two sisters and my husband. Dad opened his eyes, and we could tell he recognized all of us. His mouth would open and shut as he was trying to talk to us. My sisters were singing Jesus Loves Me to him. Suddenly Dad's eyes focused on the ceiling to his right. They lit up and his eyes travelled all the way across the room to the left. We could tell he was seeing something as he smiled. When his eyes got all the way to the left, he took his last breath and was gone. It was the most spectacular thing I have ever witnessed as we could tell something he knew and recognized came into the room and he left with it. Now I am crying. Sorry.
*hugs* I am glad he had a peaceful passing.

Sadly, I was not at the hospital when my mother passed. I was the healthcare power of attorney and I had to make the decision to take her off ventilation. She had CHF and had a bad bout of pnemonia. The hospital was supposed to call me when she took a turn for the worse but they didn't. I called first thing in the morning to the nurses station but no one answered.

I had plans to go to the hospital first thing when the kids got off to school. I didn't think seeing her dying was a good thing for them to see. As luck would have it, the school buses were 30 minutes late that day. She passed 15 minutes before I got there. I think she wanted to spare us from seeing her pass on.

Another odd thing happened after that. I was cleaning out her room and found a ring that she had made out of her grandmother's diamond earrings. My mom had slender fingers and I have fat ones. I always loved that ring but it never fit me. After my mom passed, the ring fits me. It looks like the band has been stretched. I wear it every day.
 

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I like LDG's take on it, and have pondered that myself. Especially in cases were people will tell stories of having seen a person in one location when they know 100% that the person is at home. Or stories of people suddenly seeing a location look totally different that it does present day for a few minutes. Of course if you start talking theoretical physics people tune out pretty quickly...

I also believe that what a lot of people perceive to be a haunting is simply more like that of a recording since the planet is essentially a big magnet. With nothing there but a stuck play and rewind button.

Intuition is simply those that have brains better keyed at pattern recognition.
 

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I truly believe that the power of love can bring people (and animals) back to us for various reasons. To give a message of love or support. I experienced some wonderful things after my mom and a couple sweet kitties passed away. I've grown up believing these things so my heart has always been open.
 

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Is anyone watching The Haunted on Animal Planet? That show is freaking me out! I don't normally watch scary stuff because I've had a few experiences and I don't need any extra help being freaked out by shows (I had nightmares for weeks after seeing White Noise), but for some reason I went a head and watched The Haunted and yeah, totally freaked out!

I believe there are many things out there that we can't explain. I totally agree with LDG. There is infinite possibility.
 

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Originally Posted by LDG

I believe in inifinite possibilities...
That whole post rings true for me... well put, Laurie!


Originally Posted by blueyedgirl5946

...Suddenly Dad's eyes focused on the ceiling to his right. They lit up and his eyes travelled all the way across the room to the left. We could tell he was seeing something as he smiled. When his eyes got all the way to the left, he took his last breath and was gone...
This is exactly how my mother describes her mom's passing, and it sounds like many other stories I've heard people tell, also. The consensus seems to be that the dying person is seeing his loved ones who've passed on, waiting to welcome him to the other side. I dearly hope this is the case.


Originally Posted by zohdee

...I always loved that ring but it never fit me. After my mom passed, the ring fits me. It looks like the band has been stretched. I wear it every day.
This makes perfect sense to me, because I had a somewhat similar experience myself years ago. I'm so glad for you!



Let me add this: I agree that simple intuition may be nothing more than subconscious pattern recognition... but sometimes it rises to what I would call premonition, which cannot be explained that way.

For example: after decades of watching my parents take off on frequent road trips without serious concern, I panicked one day when my mom mentioned a particular trip they were about to take. I became obsessed with their safety and, among other precautions, insisted that they rent a bigger car for the trip.

But when I saw the full-size sedan that was reserved for them, I knew it wasn't the right car. I dragged Mom (who was livid with me by now) back into Hertz to ask for something bigger, and the Cadillac Seville they offered seemed to actually glow when I saw it. That was the car!

Long story short: for the first and only time in their long history of travel, my parents had an accident on that trip, a major one -- they went airborne off an embankment at 80 mph. And three different law enforcement officers on the scene (city, county, and state) all commented that anything smaller than the big, heavy Cadillac they were driving would certainly have rolled... but the Seville stayed upright, and my folks walked away with cuts, bruises, and whiplash.

I've had other premonitions, but that was the most intense by far. I don't know where they come from, but I'm absolutely sure they're real!
 
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