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What have you been smoking?"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell -
Summary: You lost your virginity wearing your lucky shirt and then found AndyW (god).
Cool story bro.England's greatest sailor since Nelson lost the armada.Comment
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I went, with a very good friend, and his 4 year old son, to the graveyard his dad was buried in. As we got there, the young lad looked around, looked puzzled, and asked his dad why all the people were staring at them. I still feel a bit shaky remembering that, and it was 8 years ago.
I'm a rational man, but ever since that day, I have had a bit more of an open mind about things...Comment
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Originally posted by Old Hack View PostI went, with a very good friend, and his 4 year old son, to the graveyard his dad was buried in. As we got there, the young lad looked around, looked puzzled, and asked his dad why all the people were staring at them. I still feel a bit shaky remembering that, and it was 8 years ago.
I'm a rational man, but ever since that day, I have had a bit more of an open mind about things...
Did a ouija board a few times as a teenager. Scared the tulip out of me.
Oddest thing that's happened to me was dreaming that my goldfish was floating, all bloodied and mangled, at the top of the fish bowl. Woke up in the morning and found the fish dead. Which was a bit creepy, but put down to coincidence. Later that day we got a letter to say my mother's best friend had been murdered - stabbed in her bed. Still feel cold thinking about it.Comment
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Originally posted by Jeff Maginty View PostSynchronicity by C. G. Jung is one of the more fascinating books that I've read, which seems very relevant to this thread. I'm coming round to the idea that a lot of what happens in life can be a metaphor. I found myself having far more sympathy for religion once I considered religious teachings as metaphors rather than things to be taken literally (e.g. the idea of God as an archetype/symbol rather than an actual white-beareded old man sat up in space looking down on us).Comment
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Originally posted by Jeff Maginty View PostThe question is...
What have you ever encountered that might lead you to think that there is more to life than meets the eye?
Yes there's much I don't understand about nature, but I refrain from labelling these experiences to bring some sense of comfort, but rather I think that truly if the universe is infinite, than all experiences are possible. Is our consciences capable of navigating this? Now there's a thought.Last edited by scooterscot; 30 June 2013, 21:14."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by Old Hack View PostI went, with a very good friend, and his 4 year old son, to the graveyard his dad was buried in. As we got there, the young lad looked around, looked puzzled, and asked his dad why all the people were staring at them. I still feel a bit shaky remembering that, and it was 8 years ago.
I'm a rational man, but ever since that day, I have had a bit more of an open mind about things...
Considering I fecking HATED that room, it made my skin crawl just being in there at times, it just put icing on the haunted cake.
When my wife and I sat down and talked about the things we'd noticed going on in the house we had had very similar experiences - dark shadows whizzing past the back bedroom doors and down the stairs, a shape appearing the corner of the sitting room and other weird tulip.
We don't live there now.Comment
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