I am pretty cynical when it comes to a lot of the seeing the future and stuff like that, The things closeup talked about are expected, it is what is the word Chance??
Odds what have you.
I used to completely not believe in any sort of premenition stuff until I had a few things happen to me, than again I also used to never believe in god well I should say I lost faith in God until a few times when I will be doubting a lot and be praying for proof so to speak in a time of desperation and what I was praying for happend hard to explain but it was those things that made me realize there was something more when it came to that.
I'm never one to question anyone's beliefs in praying, etc, but where my skepticism always arises is in examples like the one you mention only involving more people. Like, for example, when you see a disaster on TV and the one guy who survives says he survived because he was fervently praying. But what never gets mentioned is that the other forty people were praying just as well but didn't survive to tell about it. People like to have explanations for things that have no appearent reason for happening but the explanation usaully says more about the person than about the situation. Two people can have the exact same experience (like riding on a roller-coaster) and one person will scared shitless and the other will enjoy it. When asked to describe the experience, you wouldn't know they both were describing the same thing. They are describiting themselves.
Gnappy, can you put a signature on my posts? I posted one in the site help thinking it would then magically appear in my posts but I found it doesn't work that way.
Gnappy, can you put a signature on my posts? I posted one in the site help thinking it would then magically appear in my posts but I found it doesn't work that way.
diane explained it pretty good but I'll see what I can do...
Click on "My Controls" at the top right hand side of the screen near the top.
Once in there, click on Edit Signature on the far left hand side.
Then in the box where you would type in what you want your sig to say type this:
[img]http://www.ratemymelons.com/chat/uploads/post-9341-1143346122.jpg[/img
except add an "]" at the end.
You can cut and paste it too. Hold your pointer at the beginning of that line you want to copy. Press and hold the left mouse button and drag it across the line you want to copy until it all turns blue. Then press right mouse button and click "copy". Go to where you want to reproduce or paste that line and hit the right mouse button again. A menu will pop up. Select "paste" from there.
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The other good one is classroom. That's enough of those for me.
haha, I just made mine up, there isn't even a "u" in schoomaster
Look up coincidence in a math book. It has nothing to do with chance or randomness. It means two things that fit perfectly together-like your thoughts then your rememberence of those thoughts. If something didn't happen to reinforce the prior thoughts, you'd have just forgotten about ever having them. There's actually a technique to help you change your thought patterns that's based on this principle. Obviously you don't remember every thought that runs thru your head in any given day. It's only when you LOOK BACK that you 'remember" having had a thought similar to what has actually ALREADY happened. If it didn't happen, you never would have resurrected the prior feeling or thought to notice the similarity.
Ok i have to get going but trying to follow you here cause we learn alot about the nervous system in my classes and sleep cycles that erase short term memories and so on and so forth.
But going off what you are saying at the time my grandmother died I had never known anyone to commit suicide so no surpressed memories there. My grandmother and I were not close quite the oppisite.
the day I had my dream or feeling that she had killed her self is the actual day she did it it was not announced until three days later when her body was found. So explain why I would have this overwhelming feeling she killed herself and three days later find out she did and it happened three days prior???
Anyway I can get in to it more with some other things as well but have to get going to school.
there is also a lot of studies to back up womans intuition.
Gavin DeBecker has a book called the Gift of Fear all about teaching a woman to pick up on her intution that is a very good book and he is a very well respected man.
I'm never one to question anyone's beliefs in praying, etc, but where my skepticism always arises is in examples like the one you mention only involving more people. Like, for example, when you see a disaster on TV and the one guy who survives says he survived because he was fervently praying. But what never gets mentioned is that the other forty people were praying just as well but didn't survive to tell about it. People like to have explanations for things that have no appearent reason for happening but the explanation usaully says more about the person than about the situation. Two people can have the exact same experience (like riding on a roller-coaster) and one person will scared shitless and the other will enjoy it. When asked to describe the experience, you wouldn't know they both were describing the same thing. They are describiting themselves.
My praying exp were all personal not shared and all happened at a time when I was about to give up in believing in god at all.
I can see what your saying in mass people though and a few survivors cause there were studies done about how even non religious people will start praying in a matter of life or death.
I have not had every prayer answered and in my life I have literally been put through hell which is why Is tarted doubting god even existed a lot because I didnt understand why he would let the things happen to me that did anyway the only times I have had something instantly happen in the moment of prayer like i did was when I was about to loose all faith.
Another conversation I love to discuss but again damnit real world is calling.
