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To ask if you believe in past lives?

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Sayhellolikethis · 28/05/2023 15:06

Name changed, as I’ve told MIL and DSis about this already…

Putting my little boy (just turned 4) to bed and he told me “I built 60 bridges during the war and I also built a bomb”. I asked him why he built a bomb and he said “I put 2 bombs on each of my bridges to protect them”. He also said “the factories were covered in camouflage”.

He then added “and a fighter jet plane falled to the ground”.

It was such a ramble of words and then he just wanted to snuggle down and go to sleep.

Has anyone else had a similar experience with their little ones? He won’t talk about it any further. Puzzled!!

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Owlglasses · 29/05/2023 20:58

Againstmachine · 29/05/2023 20:48

Nope that isnt agression at all you are wat too sensitive if you think it is.

Its not arrogant your people beliefs are bullshit.

People like you allow predatory clairvoyants to use these people, clairvoyants, and physics are some of the most vile people to exist.

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I don't like physics either, so we do have something in common.

Here's a quote from another thread for you to ponder (whilst you enjoy your second bottle perhaps)....

"I work with very very clever people and the big traps for them are arrogance, confirmation bias and the need to be the cleverest person in the room making them overthink and overcomplicate things.

IMO the cleverer you are, the more important it is to seek out people, viewpoints and information that might contradict your own conclusions. You have to keep on refining your thoughts and always be prepared to be proven wrong."

Againstmachine · 29/05/2023 21:06

Owlglasses · 29/05/2023 20:58

I don't like physics either, so we do have something in common.

Here's a quote from another thread for you to ponder (whilst you enjoy your second bottle perhaps)....

"I work with very very clever people and the big traps for them are arrogance, confirmation bias and the need to be the cleverest person in the room making them overthink and overcomplicate things.

IMO the cleverer you are, the more important it is to seek out people, viewpoints and information that might contradict your own conclusions. You have to keep on refining your thoughts and always be prepared to be proven wrong."

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Yep so you are trying to make out I'm having a bottle because I dont agree whilst posting a load of meaningless bullshit which whilst you think means something it means nothing.

Daisybuttercup12345 · 29/05/2023 21:10

SirenSays · 28/05/2023 15:26

No I don't. I used to work with a self proclaimed psychic who told everyone they were either cleopatra, a victorian child or King's mistress in a past life.

That's just your experience.

Daisybuttercup12345 · 29/05/2023 21:18

Rollonannualeave · 28/05/2023 21:39

The skeptics on this thread strike me as lazy thinkers that want everyone else to bend over backwards trying to prove things to their very closed and made up minds.

Agree

Againstmachine · 29/05/2023 21:25

Daisybuttercup12345 · 29/05/2023 21:18

Agree

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Lazy thinkers are people who believe any old bullshit, imagine thinking critically.

CathyorClaire · 29/05/2023 21:46

No.

I don't believe in past lives, OP anymore than I subscribe to any other form of woo.

Offensiveapprently · 29/05/2023 22:11

My friends son told her that he was glad to have seen his great grandma when he was little (she died when he was about 2) because he has been his mum before and she had screamed when he'd fallen in the water. His great grandma did indeed lose her toddler in the Manchester ship canal, he drowned.

Offensiveapprently · 29/05/2023 22:13

I'm don't believe thus is what she thinks it is as I'm sure he must have heard something from them talking about it 🤷

SirenSays · 29/05/2023 22:18

Daisybuttercup12345 · 29/05/2023 21:10

That's just your experience.

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Yeah obviously 🤣 I never said otherwise

OMG12 · 29/05/2023 22:24

Please don’t dismiss this. I believe in past lives and have done several past life regression sessions. All pretty unremarkable lives, but important things that made sense of certain things in this life.

Orders76 · 29/05/2023 23:56

TheYearOfSmallThings · 29/05/2023 20:19

No, I don't believe it at all.

I think adults want to believe it, and children like attention and make believe. Adults then adapt what they are hearing to fit their narrative.

Personally, I absolutely don't want to believe what I said earlier about myself.
Unfortunately, recurring dreams, breathing issues and anxiety have been a lot to get over.

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Hopelesscynic · 30/05/2023 07:43

Fairislefandango · 28/05/2023 18:56

Just because some people don’t believe in past lives, doesn’t mean it’s not true.

It's not the fact that some people don't believe in it that makes it not true. It's the fact that there's absolutely zero evidence for it (or for ghosts, clairvoyants, psychics or any other woo nonsense).

Well there's "Zero Evidence" (scientifically speaking) that an Afterlife exists, but there are MANY people experiencing it after supposedly being "clinically dead". The human experience IS the evidence.

Hopelesscynic · 30/05/2023 07:54

Owlglasses · 28/05/2023 20:32

@Againstmachine

We are living on modern world we shouldn't be believing this woowoo.

Why shouldn't people believe in this? What harm do you think it does?

I'm genuinely interested in the people who are so brutally derogatory about believers on threads like this and also threads about ghosts. It would be possible just to say no, I don't believe, but there is a real vehemence about the need to put down posters who believe and crush their argument. Why is that?

@Owlglasses I am wondering the same - so much hostility and putting down anyone who dares consider reincarnation (or anything else "woo").
Well I have my own "woo" experiences, which are actually not "woo" at all but very natural. They are also true and genuine, but I wouldn't go round people trying to hammer into them how "right" I am and how "ludicrous" they are.

CurlewKate · 30/05/2023 08:38

"The human experience IS the evidence."

Honestly, it isn't. Experience and evidence are entirely different things!

CurlewKate · 30/05/2023 08:40

Incidentally, the only aggression I've seen on this thread is the believer in past lives who called everyone who didn't believe jackasses. I was quite proud-I've never been called a jackass before!

Againstmachine · 30/05/2023 09:26

Hopelesscynic · 30/05/2023 07:43

Well there's "Zero Evidence" (scientifically speaking) that an Afterlife exists, but there are MANY people experiencing it after supposedly being "clinically dead". The human experience IS the evidence.

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I don't think you understand what constitutes evidence.

blahblahblah1654 · 30/05/2023 09:29

Many people experience hallucinations when near death. The mind is powerful. It doesn't prove life after death.

KimberleyClark · 30/05/2023 10:04

blahblahblah1654 · 30/05/2023 09:29

Many people experience hallucinations when near death. The mind is powerful. It doesn't prove life after death.

No. One school of thought is that it is your brain making the experience of dying less stressful.

CurlewKate · 30/05/2023 10:14

Brains starved of oxygen hallucinate.

Hopelesscynic · 30/05/2023 12:05

CurlewKate · 30/05/2023 10:14

Brains starved of oxygen hallucinate.

Not when things the "nearly dead" people have said after returning to life, exactly describe what's been happening around them while "dead" (e.g confirming what they've heard doctors say word for word or "seeing" things while out of body that they shouldn't be able to see - again confirmed by the doctors working in them, relatives present etc).
You cant just dismiss these experiences as hallucinations, there's no way you can know or prove that's what they were. To so confidently state "hallucinations" as a Fact is rather arrogant.

blahblahblah1654 · 30/05/2023 12:09

No one has really died and returned. That's why we can't prove anything after death. Once you die it's a one way ticket to wherever that is. When your brain truly dies that's it. The visions/experiences happen when the person is still alive. Not discounting it entirely as how would I know, but it seems far fetched.

mamabear715 · 30/05/2023 12:10

Yes, I believe. Not giving details as the sceptics would have a birthday.
#Rolls eyes.

blahblahblah1654 · 30/05/2023 12:10

I suppose you could be classed as clinically dead, but there would still need to be some brain activity