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AIBU?

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To ask if you believe in the afterlife?

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recklessruby · 14/09/2018 13:08

My dm and I believe when you pass there is another better place you go to. Df disagrees and says when you are gone that's it.
I nearly died giving birth to ds (complications and pre eclampsia) and I know I was drifting somewhere lovely but was told I was too young and it was not my time and turned back. I awoke to chaos and pain and was very disappointed.
Some people will say it's the drugs you get in labour but I have had a few woo encounters over the years when I have been in a clear mind.
So what do you believe? Aibu there is something more after we die?
And that dearly loved pets will be there.
(Maybe not heaven but something).
Sorry this is long and weird.

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BabySharkAteMyHamster · 18/09/2018 07:44

I used to think we died and that was it........then me and 2 family members heard my dead mothers voice a few weeks after she died. We all heard the same thing, we all ignored it thinking we'd gone nuts. We all questioned it at the same time.

Im still not woo, the only spirits i'm interested in come encased in a glass bottle but at the same time I cannot explain it. 🤷‍♀️

BloodyDisgrace · 18/09/2018 08:32

No.

JustAnotherPoster00 · 18/09/2018 08:47

@sweethome, you said "Bertrand you can give it out but you can’t take it. Always insulting Christians, but no other religion.”
You should either back that up with examples or withdraw it- I regard it as quite a serious allegation.

Its a faith based accusation so I'm sure that PP will tell you its your job to prove her unsubstantiated claim wrong...

JustAnotherPoster00 · 18/09/2018 08:49

We have to believe Betrand did it and if you all believe hard enough it will make it true and you can all live in a special place after you die unless of course you don't believe it then there's another special place for you to go after you die...

sweethope · 18/09/2018 08:55

why on earth should anyone else go on a hopeless quest to try and prove your assertions?
For goodness sake, lighten up, I’m not seriously expecting anyone to. Why would they bother, just like i can’t be bothered.

BertrandRussell · 18/09/2018 09:04

sweet home-I think you might have missed my earlier post-here it is again for your convenience-I await evidence or apology.
"@sweethome, you said "Bertrand you can give it out but you can’t take it. Always insulting Christians, but no other religion.”
You should either back that up with examples or withdraw it- I regard it as quite a serious allegation."

sweethope · 18/09/2018 09:16

I’m not going looking for examples, i’ve already said, rather than anything specific it’s more the belittling. As for it being serious, are you kidding. People get accused of practically everything on here, surely you notice that. It’s not only you, there’s so many who think its fine to insult Christianity, but i accept that you haven’t made any direct insults. In fact i’d go as far as to say you are much more moderate that many. I’m sorry if i offended you though, i didn’t mean to do that.

BertrandRussell · 18/09/2018 09:19

sweethome- please withdraw the remark and apologise.

Gersemi · 18/09/2018 09:24

You can be bothered to write various posts making quite offensive statements about another poster, but you can't be bothered to back them up, sweethope. And with that weaselly retreat to "no direct insults, you still won't acknowledge your error. It doesn't encourage us to place any weight on anything else you have to say, to be honest.

missbattenburg · 18/09/2018 09:24

He was meant to go to someone else and chose me instead.

Apparently, as a young child, I would talk a lot about my "other mummy" and my "other home" and describe it. I'd insist my real mum knew her. I would say "you know her mum, you know her from before".

It freaked mum out a bit so she discouraged me from talking about it but wishes now she'd not done so.

I was also one hypnotised and talked of a life as a shipmate in earlier times. I had a wife and two sons and it felt so strange because I could see them in my mind and feel different emotions when looking at them. I saw the oldest son and felt such a surge of pride and the youngest and felt disapproval and disappointment. I have no idea if reincarnation is true or not - or even if I believe it - but it was a VERY strange experience.

sweethope · 18/09/2018 09:33

Gersemi please give me examples of these “various posts”?

BertrandRussell · 18/09/2018 09:44

Oh come on, sweethome. You posted something very unpleasant about me. Apologies, withdraw the remark and move on.

sweethope · 18/09/2018 09:47

BertrandRussell i’ve asked mumsnet to remove the post that offended you, i’m sorry if you took it in a way that obviously upset you.

Gersemi it seems you are doing exactly the same, please back up what youve said.

BertrandRussell · 18/09/2018 09:51

My brother and I once heard someone describing in gripping detail their previous life in 1st century Mercia. Unfortunately, the account was the plot of a book called Mist over Athelney- a childhood favourite in our family but forgotten nowadays. Either it was a deliberate deception, or, more likely, the person had read the book too and it emerged from his subconscious under hypnosis.

BertrandRussell · 18/09/2018 09:53

“BertrandRussell i’ve asked mumsnet to remove the post that offended you, i’m sorry if you took it in a way that obviously upset you.”

It didn’t upset me. It was untrue. And I don’t like people saying untrue things about me. And you still can’t bring yourself to apologize.

sweethope · 18/09/2018 09:55

My post at 09.16 i apologised to you.

BertrandRussell · 18/09/2018 09:58

No you didn’t. You said you were sorry if I took your comment in the wrong way and was offended. That is not an apology.

sweethope · 18/09/2018 10:06

No, i said “I’m sorry if i offended you”. That is an apology, but please remember this is a thread about the afterlife.

BertrandRussell · 18/09/2018 10:10

You didn’t offend me. You lied about me. But hey ho. If you can live with that it’s up to you. I did think there was something about bearing false witness, though.

sweethope · 18/09/2018 10:16

Well Gersemi has just lied about me too. I don’t get too het up about it and i’m not demanding apologies. I don’t set out to insult people, however as a Christian i get insulted all the time.

JustAnotherPoster00 · 18/09/2018 10:21

I did think there was something about bearing false witness, though.

That's where my journey into atheism/anti theism began, watching people in the congregation I was part of, watching 'godly' people othering and gossiping about people who didnt think like them (seems to be a problem now in all parts of our adversarial society we live in) it then made me look deeper into the 'word of god' and my feelings towards god and found nothing I could back up with evidence, no evidence ergo bullshit

BertrandRussell · 18/09/2018 11:33

“ I don’t set out to insult people

Another lie.

sweethope · 18/09/2018 11:34

And you don't I suppose

missbattenburg · 18/09/2018 12:46

ffs are you two still bickering on like children? Haven't you noticed everyone else has slunk away - presumably put off by your hijacking of the thread.

sweethope · 18/09/2018 12:52

Which considering the subject of the thread won’t bother Bertrand in the slightest.

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