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Has anyone had contact with a loved one who has passed away?
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Has anyone here made contact with a departed loved one? What kind of experience was this? Was it via a medium or was it a sign, something that you know could have only come from that person who had passed away?
I am definetly curious about this and I am sitting on the fence as to whether I believe that there is "life" after death or not. I would like to believe so. Then again, the cynics out there will say that you die and that is it.
I am definetly curious about this and I am sitting on the fence as to whether I believe that there is "life" after death or not. I would like to believe so. Then again, the cynics out there will say that you die and that is it.
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I think you'll find that being dead generally gets in the way of communicating at any level
the only people who get any success are those who make money from exploiting other people's insecurities and their grief.
not cynical - just practical - you pull the battery - the toy stops clapping ...
can you imagine what it would be like being dead ... you just get interested in a rerun of neighbours ... and some bl@@dy red indian comes and starts asking stupid questions
are you happy? ... well I was until you started
the only people who get any success are those who make money from exploiting other people's insecurities and their grief.
not cynical - just practical - you pull the battery - the toy stops clapping ...
can you imagine what it would be like being dead ... you just get interested in a rerun of neighbours ... and some bl@@dy red indian comes and starts asking stupid questions
are you happy? ... well I was until you started
I am a cynic. You die, and that is it.
how can anyone get in touch with someone/something that isn't there anymore? The body has ceased funtioning, the brain is switched off with no data going in or out.
The soul is another matter depending on what your religion teaches you. Some say you are a spoke on a wheel and you go round and round on a different spoke until you attain nirvana.
Visiting mediums and trying to get that last message from your dearly departed is just to make the grieving relative feel better in themself. if it helps you to feel better thinking they have 'spoken' to you, then go ahead, but then that's all it does, alleviates the grief.
how can anyone get in touch with someone/something that isn't there anymore? The body has ceased funtioning, the brain is switched off with no data going in or out.
The soul is another matter depending on what your religion teaches you. Some say you are a spoke on a wheel and you go round and round on a different spoke until you attain nirvana.
Visiting mediums and trying to get that last message from your dearly departed is just to make the grieving relative feel better in themself. if it helps you to feel better thinking they have 'spoken' to you, then go ahead, but then that's all it does, alleviates the grief.
Sorry but I completely disagree with the two posts above. I have been to a Spiritualist Church on many occasions and have seen too many people get mesages from loved ones to not believe.
My friends have had messages and the medium has told them things to identify the message sender that couldn't possibly be guessed.
Some mediums are definately better than others though, some just throw out facts and random mesages until somebody puts their hand up and says 'that sounds like my uncle...' whereas others will come directly to someone in the congregation (?) and say 'I've got your dad with me...' So if you go to one and they aren't particulary good, don't be put off - see a few before making your mind up.
I've never been contacted but then the only deceased people I know are my grandparents and they have been dead for so long that I can't really remember them and wouldn't recognise them if they did come through!!
My friends have had messages and the medium has told them things to identify the message sender that couldn't possibly be guessed.
Some mediums are definately better than others though, some just throw out facts and random mesages until somebody puts their hand up and says 'that sounds like my uncle...' whereas others will come directly to someone in the congregation (?) and say 'I've got your dad with me...' So if you go to one and they aren't particulary good, don't be put off - see a few before making your mind up.
I've never been contacted but then the only deceased people I know are my grandparents and they have been dead for so long that I can't really remember them and wouldn't recognise them if they did come through!!
Cheekychops....c'mon....do you really think that the "dead" communicate with the living?
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David said he has" settled well".....so what?
Uncle David says" that your problem will soon be solved"........they usually are.
Never do your hear the winning numbers of the Lottery....something that would be useful.
If my grandad was Chinese, would he contact the medium in Chinese or English?
C'mon.
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David said he has" settled well".....so what?
Uncle David says" that your problem will soon be solved"........they usually are.
Never do your hear the winning numbers of the Lottery....something that would be useful.
If my grandad was Chinese, would he contact the medium in Chinese or English?
C'mon.
Personally my beliefs side with Ac and bazzy, but at the same time I do not think all mediums / spiritualists are deliberate frauds. I think that as with other expressions of faith and religion, there is an element of givng upset people a little solace.
But there are some terrible shysters out there, both in organised religion and the mediumship lark.
But there are some terrible shysters out there, both in organised religion and the mediumship lark.
i posted this on another thread a few months back
"someone i know ( a very close friend of my best mate) lost her fiance in a tragic car accident.
a while later she went to see a medium.
the medium said pretty general things that could be attributed to many people so this friend didnt really think much of it. The medium knew that she was hoping for some comfort following her loved ones death in an accident
The medium then said that the fiance had broken his arm in the accident. This was not true, but she insisted that the guy she could see was sporting a broken arm.
it wasnt until the medium showed the woman exactly what she could see that the woman broke down.
The guy was holding his "broken" arm up to show her the medium said, copying the motion exactly. This was actually how the guy used to wave, he'd hold his arm with his opposite hand.
He was waving. "
"someone i know ( a very close friend of my best mate) lost her fiance in a tragic car accident.
a while later she went to see a medium.
the medium said pretty general things that could be attributed to many people so this friend didnt really think much of it. The medium knew that she was hoping for some comfort following her loved ones death in an accident
The medium then said that the fiance had broken his arm in the accident. This was not true, but she insisted that the guy she could see was sporting a broken arm.
it wasnt until the medium showed the woman exactly what she could see that the woman broke down.
The guy was holding his "broken" arm up to show her the medium said, copying the motion exactly. This was actually how the guy used to wave, he'd hold his arm with his opposite hand.
He was waving. "
If it was possible to contact someone who was dead what would be the point anyway? "How are you - oh, still dead then."
If it is possible surely it would have lead to more than "dad says don't forget to paint the fence" by now. Surely someone intelligent would have popped back with a message with actual technical or scientific value. People have been dying for a long time, if you could contact them there would be heaps of definitive proof by now.
If it is possible surely it would have lead to more than "dad says don't forget to paint the fence" by now. Surely someone intelligent would have popped back with a message with actual technical or scientific value. People have been dying for a long time, if you could contact them there would be heaps of definitive proof by now.
It's my belief that we comfort ourselves with the notion of a life beyond this one - Christianity and similar faiths are based on this notion.
I think that people who really want to believe they are 'contacted' will subconciously convince themselves that this has happened. That does not make it a real event, more a psychosematic incident, where someone can convince themselves utterly that a loved one is in fact communicating with them.
These people whould be able to fly through a lie-detector test, which only proves that the person believes that way they say is true, not that it is in fact true.
A simple example is a flat-earther - who believes the earth to be flat, and therefore speaks the 'truth', wheras evidence contradicts that stance.
Or Nick Griffen, who believes the Haulocaust did not occur.
I think that people who really want to believe they are 'contacted' will subconciously convince themselves that this has happened. That does not make it a real event, more a psychosematic incident, where someone can convince themselves utterly that a loved one is in fact communicating with them.
These people whould be able to fly through a lie-detector test, which only proves that the person believes that way they say is true, not that it is in fact true.
A simple example is a flat-earther - who believes the earth to be flat, and therefore speaks the 'truth', wheras evidence contradicts that stance.
Or Nick Griffen, who believes the Haulocaust did not occur.
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