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To ask what your wackiest belief is?

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cupthejunction · 07/06/2017 23:43

I got involved in Buddhism in my early twenties and some things have resonated/ stayed with me.

I really can't help but believe in rebirth (obviously with no evidence)

My mum died last year when I was pregnant and my sister and I have both thought about her a lot today.

I really think she's been reborn as a human (9 month gestation could have taken place)

My own baby (5 mo) I can't help thinking that she is being grieved for by people who knew her in her previous life and I want to tell them that she has a lot of love and a lovely life!

What are your wacky beliefs that you'd never tell anyone in rl because they'd be too weird for people?

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laurzj82 · 10/06/2017 01:08

I believe that people who die before their time are too good for this world. I had a few friends who died young (teens) and they all had similar personalities. Sounds cliché but full of life, energetic, outgoing, charismatic people. Not explaining it very well.

I think it's more of a wanting to belive than actually believing but I often talk to the robin who visits our garden incase it is my late DM.

ShoutOutToMyEx · 10/06/2017 01:24

There's a baby waiting room. Their souls choose their mum

In that case some poor kids get it badly wrong.

I don't know why, this has made me cry a bit. Well I do know why, I work in child protection and it's been a long day.

jemmstar1980 · 10/06/2017 01:41

Laughing that I with a lot of these post - if you kill a spider it's mate is going to come for you :)

And things don't happen for a reason.

I totally believe babies are souls, those souls are gifts and given at the right time, some souls are not made for earth so they go back to heaven.

As mad as I sound until someone can explain the ghost and dreams etc I've had then I'm either batshit crazy or physic.

Yellowaardvark · 10/06/2017 02:08

I have these really strong ideas that are a bit random. None have come true yet but it's still really strong. Like I have a friend that I can just see as an elderly man with Alzheimer's and me looking after him, which is odd as we're not that close. And I have another friend I've always been unreasonably worried about them being beaten up walking home at night. When I was a kid I had one to do with my sister that came true and ever since then I've wondered but it could just be my imagination

SomeOtherFuckers · 10/06/2017 03:44

If I don't salute a magpie I get really horribly anxious that something bad will happen ... I HAVE to salute it ( to the embarrassment of my DP) ... I im waiti for something ( exam results, job offers etc) I up it to asking the magpie how he is and what his partners doing today x

IAmNotAWitch · 10/06/2017 03:54

I like to pretend that reincarnation does exist, is not linear and I am my cat.

She behaves in EXACTLY the way I would if I thought I could get away with it. She appears to mirror my moods and gives me weird looks sometimes. Grin

seoulsurvivor · 10/06/2017 03:54

I don't exactly believe I'm psychic but I do have really strong intuition. Not exactly woo, but I definitely know a lot of what is going to happen before it does (can tell when couples are going to split up/I knew the Tories wouldn't do well in the election/know when people are a bit dodgy.) I think most people would have better intuition if they acted a bit calmer and read the signs more.

David Icke was spot-on about Jimmy Saville and I wonder if he's right about other stuff. Not the lizard stuff, but maybe he is right about other things.

I basically believe that everything has been pre-determined and that free will is an illusion. I'm not 100% sure about it, but it definitely seems plausible. Not that there is a God that pre-determined everything, but that physics has pre-determined everything.

Sometimes I also believe in God, on the other hand. Definitely not sure on that one though.

SomeOtherFuckers · 10/06/2017 04:02

I've also twice had a HORRIBLE sick to my stomach reaction upon seeing people for the first time ( a Christian youth worker at a camp I was at and a hippie looking bloke) and had to leave the room because they shook me to my core. I know one of them died very soon after and don't know the bloke. Ever since I reckon I either know they're going to die or that there is something evil about them.
Doesn't always work - my year 4 teacher was a peadophile and I loved him ( shudders) .

EleanorAbernathy · 10/06/2017 04:42

I am normally completely non-woo and a total atheist - but I believe my old cat who died a few years ago is still around.
I sometimes wake up ans feel her on rhe bes with me- and sometimes I just strongly feel her presence. I find it comforting.Smile

EleanorAbernathy · 10/06/2017 04:43

Oops too many typos - and feel her on the bed with me

Zoflorabore · 10/06/2017 04:58

That the talking cat on YouTube is real!
The owner says to him " you wanna treat?" And the cat goes " yas " several times Blush

14 yr old ds constantly tells me it's fake but I refuse to believe it.

IAmNotAWitch · 10/06/2017 06:06

My cat says 'Ooooow' when she wants to go out.

It is very different to the other meows she does and only means that. She comes to you, says 'ooooow' and then goes to the nearest door.

witchelm · 10/06/2017 07:22

I had a friend when I was younger and I always felt that he didn't "belong". Like he was born at the wrong time, or just existed on a different frequency. He really, really struggled with life. That's always made me think about alternative lives.
I agree with PP about making the right choice for you makes you feel like the universe is agreeing with you. I've made a difficult and selfish choice recently, but I feel like things are coming to me much easier since making it.

Cantseethewoods · 10/06/2017 07:36

I believe there will be a catastrophic population event in the next 150 years which will reduce the human population by around 50%

Sycamorewindmills · 10/06/2017 07:54

I believe in cosmic ordering too. I am a fairly optimistic person as a rule anyway, so try to thank ' the universe' for good things every day and to ask for the things I want to happen.

winchesterfan · 10/06/2017 07:55

I sometimes think that we are just like a Sims game, with someone watching & controlling our every move.

lieka · 10/06/2017 07:57

@ShoutOutToMyEx yes, as a kid who grew up in a shitty environment, I thought that too. And also felt sick at the thought that all the babies are choosing not to come to me as well, what a fucking horrible idea all round. A virtual hug from me to you Flowers

Frouby · 10/06/2017 08:11

I know things are related to me before I know iyswim. Recently there was something mentioned on local police fb page. Horrible accident with a fatality. I knew I would know the person injured and I did.

Also a few months ago dp came home from work and said traffic was shocking up the road because of an accident. I knew my sister was involved. She was fine thankfully but I rang her just to check and she said 'I was just going to ring you, can you pick ds up, have been in an accident and car wrote off'.

Years ago when I was 20 I lived alone. I only had a house phone back then. I got up at 1am and sat at the bottom of the stairs waiting for the phone to ring. When it did it was my mum telling me my nan had died and could I go to mums and sit with my younger siblings until she got home from the hospital.

And mums husband had been very ill (cancer) for some time. We knew he was dying but he wanted to be at home. A week before he passed I told my friend I needed to be there Friday morning as he would die then and I needed to support my mum. It was really difficult to get time off work due to staff holidays so I had to tell my boss he would die on friday morning and I needed the morning off but would come in until 11am. He gave me this face Hmm but agreed.

Sure enough he died at 11.45am. I had been there 20 minutes.

A few other things too. Knowing a phone will ring and who it is. Knowing things will happen before they do.

I am pretty unwoo generally. And not a stressy person worrying about stuff constantly.

ShowgirlnamedLola · 10/06/2017 09:53

I have dreams about my nana sometimes and believe that's her visiting me to say hello. She died a few years ago....

And there's this Paul Simon song that always comes on the radio, sometimes when I'm sad but always when something big is going on. It was my dad's favourite. He died when I was nine. I am certain it's my dad telling me I'll be ok.

Ginmakesitallok · 10/06/2017 09:57

I'm still very sceptical about the moon landings - I just can't believe that we managed to get folk there and back safely with the computer power of a calculator. I believe the moon landings were faked.

dudsville · 10/06/2017 10:03

My wackiest "belief" is that I can't have a more fulfilling relationship. The"wackiest" things I do, however, aren't based on beliefs but are just good manners (!) - I nod a greeting to passing wildlife and the moon. I'm not in any kind of way religious/spiritual/superstitious.

hopingforhappiness · 10/06/2017 22:55

My beloved grandma died unexpectedly, my DS2 was born unexpectedly, 1 year to the day she died. He has a LOT of her characteristics. I call him my "Sunshine" because he cheers me up everyday. Really took away our sorrow after she died. He says he was an angel and she sent him to make us happy again.
My DS1 when he was between 2 and 3 yo made many comments about his "previous" friends and life. We traced names and locations. All existed, most within our own family.
Open minded about what all of this means.

NorthStarAtMyFeet · 11/06/2017 17:41

Sorry for your loss OP - I too have the wacky belief that dd2 is my mum, inspite of there being only a few days between DM dying and dd2 being born. I've read loads of near death experience accounts from the nderf site and, as several include the feeling that we are all one (& Bill Bryson in "a short history of nearly everything" describing life on earth as having come from the same blueprint - ie if we go back far enough all life on earth has a common ancestor) I have concluded that perhaps everything on earth shares a soul as well as DNA. We are each other, like multiple finger puppets on the same hand.

Thanks OP, felt nice to share that GrinBlushConfused

glitterglitters · 11/06/2017 17:43

@Ginmakesitallok I don't think the moon landings were real either. I think it was all anti-communist propaganda.

And my grandad was one of the people who "collected" the astronauts from the sea so I should probably believe.

JustCallMeKate · 11/06/2017 17:52

I lost my beautiful dog a few months ago and recently got another puppy. Our new puppy has the same traits as a dog I had years ago, the same 'smile', the way our new puppy hugs me, and the way he sits at my heels being very little. I do think he's a reincarantion of my first dog. I very much believe in reincarnation, karma and what goes round comes around. We also have a robin around our new home and I find it a bit weird as it's very tame and is often in the greenhouse with me. My dad loved his greenhouse and this is the first one I've had.

All 4 of my children have told me about the lady that visited them when they were small. They're adults now but often look at a photo of my grandmother when she was young and have said that's the lady who used to sit on their beds.