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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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DioneTheDiabolist · 14/06/2017 20:28

dudsville I love that you are polite to nature and the universe.

Shellsandstones1 · 14/06/2017 21:59

Defo astral projection. Used to walk around my ex's house. He moved some shelves from my office, and shat himself when I said I knew. Ha.

bumblebee61 · 14/06/2017 22:22

I am amazed at many of the beliefs that people have here, as I share them. It just shows how often people do believe so called 'wacky' ideas, but do not voice them. I would never speak about my beliefs ordinarily for fear of being thought crazy.

NameChangerConarantly · 15/06/2017 02:07

I believe there's hundreds and thousands of different worlds. Some just like ours, some more advanced, some set in the Stone Age etc.

And I believe that the more advanced visited our world and walk amongst us

I believe in reincarnation.
I know I've met my son before, but not in this world. I know him from somewhere before. Not my daughter though, I can tell she's a new soul lol.

i have loads More but I'm tired 😴

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Enb76 · 15/06/2017 10:28

I believe that the universe smiled when my daughter was born. I'm completely rational - normally, but on the day of my daughter's birth there was a circumzenithal arc (upside down rainbow like a smile) above the town. They are pretty rare things especially as I don't live in a particularly cold area. This is the picture someone took of it.

wrenika · 15/06/2017 11:23

That if I eat leek and tattie soup something terrible will happen...genuinely can't do it.
When I was around 15, I went out for lunch with my mum and we had leek and tattie soup. The next day, my parents went to visit my grandpa in hospital and I chose to stay at home this time. I got a call to say they'd been in an accident and felt like the world was ripped out from under me. I don't have friends or siblings - and I didn't have my OH at that age obviously - so I suddenly realised how they were everything I had. They were both fine, a few months off work but no lasting damage. But I still can't break the association between leek and tattie soup and the fear of losing my parents.

minxypanda · 15/06/2017 11:41

Ok.... first time poster.... like lots here I believe in reincarnation.... I didn't used to but when I went into labour with DD1 we later realised it was 10 years to the day that OH's mum had passed. And my DD is the image of MIL as a young child, similar mannerisms too...

Also, go easy on me but I think I'm a bit of a white witch.... Only ever cast 3 spells in my life but they've all worked. I save them for when I'm desperate!

WhooooAmI24601 · 15/06/2017 11:50

It's bonkers in the extreme but I believe in wishes. I don't make them very often because it seems greedy but every single one of my wishes that I've ever made has come true. As a result I also believe I have magic inside me.

Also, I've never told anyone this because it would mean acknowledging that sometimes I wish for selfish things instead of world peace.

CircleofWillis · 15/06/2017 12:01

I believe that if I don't harm any creatures (think mainly annoying insects here - I've never harmed an animal) my daughter will remain happy, fit and healthy. I am a normal person and have very few irrational thoughts but when I was 20 weeks pregnant with her after several years of ttc we both became seriously ill and I was told she wouldn't survive. I made a pact with whatever good forces were listening that I would not deliberately harm any tiny beast if we both survived and she was healthy. We both rallied and she managed to hold on for several more weeks before greeting the world. 5 years on I am still escorting earwigs gently outside, hiding fly swotters and putting up with jumpers like Swiss cheese to honour my debt. My DD is fit and healthy, loud and gloriously wild and I have taught her from early on to be gentle with our animal friends. I have even overcome my fear of spiders and wasps in order to keep them safe. My friends think I'm mad when they see me calmly letting a mosquito finish her lunch before shooting her away or collecting garden snails and slugs in a bucket to real ease them in the local woods. I have even researched non lethal but effective ways of removing headlice. I think I'll have to draw the line at intestinal worms as that doesn't fit in with the agreement in the other side for her health. I know I'm mad to think this but surely this small pocket of madness does no harm and encourages a lot of good? My neighbour offered me her snails last weekend as I was collecting my own...

MackerelOfFact · 15/06/2017 12:20

Sometimes I wonder if I'm actually dead, and my perception of life is an illusion. There have been times where I've had near misses (choking, massive electric shock, being close to being hit by a car, etc) where I've genuinely wondered to myself 'did I actually survive that? How can I be totally sure?'

I have also always wondered, since I was a child, whether everyone perceives colours completely differently but just has no idea.

Shockers · 15/06/2017 12:26

A few days before I married DH, I had a dream about a blonde haired boy. He was ours, but I hadn't given birth to him.

I also once saw a little girl with sn and thought, 'she's just like my daughter'. I didn't have a daughter.

18 months later, we fell into fostering by accident. Someone at church asked us to take in their grandchildren and we asked SS for guidance. After we'd become registered foster carers, I got a call one day, asking me to take an emergency placement, 5 weeks prem baby. The carers lined up for him were away. I said yes.

We were told we couldn't adopt him because we had no infertility issues and babies were saved for those who had. He was 'advertised' but nobody came forward. SS thought that this was because his older sister had sn.

He's our dear son, aged 17 now, with beautiful blonde hair (I'm a redhead, DH is dark). DD (his birth sister) is 18 and is thriving.

I learnt about patience during the whole process; it was a steep learning curve, but it has stood me in good stead ever since.

We've also come to the conclusion that we probably did have fertility issues, as I've never become pregnant, despite only ever half heartedly using the rhythm method.

I've always believed that my kids are the two I dreamed/thought about before they were even born.

TheBusThatCouldntSlowDown · 15/06/2017 14:10

I believe in wishes too. Everything I have ever consciously wished for has come true. Sometimes I get it years and years later, but I always get my wish in the end.

piefacedClique · 15/06/2017 15:07

That aliens come down to earth in watermelons? Nanu nanu!!

Shockers · 15/06/2017 15:30

Me too, TheBus.

CanadaMoose91 · 15/06/2017 15:36

I believe that there are genuine psychics, and that they have the ability to communicate with spirits and the dead. I would only share this belief with anyone other than my closest friends (only my husband and my mom know, and they both think i'm nuts).

CanadaMoose91 · 15/06/2017 15:37

*wouldn't

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cupthejunction · 15/06/2017 21:04

Thanks for sharing all your wacky beleifs with me, maybe there are more of us than not.
This feels like the lovely teenage conversations I'd have with my friends at sleepovers. Adults generally don't share this maybe because we're so protective of our reputations as adults.

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pandarific · 15/06/2017 21:23

I genuinely believe I'm going to be really wealthy within the Next ten years.

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