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Old 13th April 2019, 10:55 AM   #2201
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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie B View Post
If the future can be foreseen, does that not imply it is already written?

And if it is fixed, how do you reconcile that with free will?
I can only really guess at those things, but I have heard a lot of trance mediums give lectures in the 1970's, and I formulated my views from them.

It may be that seeing into the future gives the angels a chance to make subtle changes. For example I know that on another forum once I helped convince a Muslim to give up his faith. Who knows what difference that has made in the world. If the spirits had not given me a lottery win it would have taken me a few more years to save up for a computer. So I might never have had the opportunity to affect his mind. So whoever gave me that money for a computer may have changed something in the world.

I think we do have free will to act as we see fit, which is part of the cycle of reincarnation and karma. We act and there are consequences. All that can be foreseen. Our state of spiritual evolution makes us act in certain, predictable ways, and the consequences force changes in us. But we often have a still small voice within we call a conscience warning us of wrong actions, and if we go against it we are accountable. That is a consequence of free will. We may both individually and collectively cause future suffering for ourselves. Even the angels cannot force us to do the right thing.
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Old 13th April 2019, 11:48 AM   #2202
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I think its an ability that is only developed by advanced spirits. They are able to transcend time, and see into the future. I do not think it was any of my departed relatives that gave me a lottery win. It had to be an evolved soul, or even an angel of karma. They only gave me five numbers, because that is all I needed to buy an internet capable computer.
When I say they gave me the numbers, I mean that earlier in the week when I picked the numbers, I felt as if I was guided to the right ones.
Hold on.

When you spoke of this previously, you gave the distinct impression that a voice had dictated five winning numbers to you before you had picked any numbers.

Saying that you "felt" that you were "guided" at the time you picked the numbers is not the same thing, even though I predict that you will say it is.
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Old 13th April 2019, 11:56 AM   #2203
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I can only really guess at those things, but I have heard a lot of trance mediums give lectures in the 1970's, and I formulated my views from them.<snip>
Well that explains a lot right there. Everything, really.

That and a sad degree of mental derangement.

Get help.
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Old 13th April 2019, 12:19 PM   #2204
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Hold on.

When you spoke of this previously, you gave the distinct impression that a voice had dictated five winning numbers to you before you had picked any numbers.

Saying that you "felt" that you were "guided" at the time you picked the numbers is not the same thing, even though I predict that you will say it is.
What actually happened was that in the middle of the week I was moaning to myself about having no money for a computer. At that precise moment a female voice said "help is coming from an unexpected source" . That is all it said, with no mention of the lottery. Then later in the week when I filled out the lottery card I felt a presence, and as I looked at the numbers some of them seemed to be right, like they glowed a little, so I picked them. Then one hour before the draw that week I picked up the ticket and said to myself, "maybe its worth a fortune, yea ! fat chance," and I threw the ticket down. At that moment the same female voice said " you won" It spoke soundlessly in the middle of my head, like telepathy. I never heard that particular female voice before or since.
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Old 13th April 2019, 12:24 PM   #2205
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The fact I heard a voice that accurately predicted the future event of my winning on the lottery an hour before the draw is a kind of evidence it was a genuine spirit communication.
The odds against getting a five number draw were 55,000 to 1 against.
The odds of hearing a voice predict you would win on the one occasion you actually won must be absolutely astronomical.
Chances of remembering getting some kind of premonition that you would win the lottery on the day you win the lottery: 100%

Chances of remembering getting some kind of premonition that you would win the lottery on days you didn't win the lottery: 0%

Chances of someone with no understanding of probability theory being amazed by the kind of coincidence expected to happen to most people several times in an average lifetime: 100%
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Old 13th April 2019, 12:30 PM   #2206
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Millions of people still believe in their immortal soul in spite of lack of evidence. That fact itself may indicate we do have one
No. It does not.

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The odds against getting a five number draw were 55,000 to 1 against.
So in a small city's worth of sold lottery tickets, one was a winner. Yes, that's rather the point.

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The odds of hearing a voice predict you would win on the one occasion you actually won must be absolutely astronomical.
Those odds become far more likely when the person "hearing" the voice suffers from mental illnesses for which hearing voices is a common symptom. They're even greater when the person has had decades of retelling the story and memory modification to end up with a recollection in 2019 that might bear very little resemblance to the actual events in the moment.
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Old 13th April 2019, 12:56 PM   #2207
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Those odds become far more likely when the person "hearing" the voice suffers from mental illnesses for which hearing voices is a common symptom. They're even greater when the person has had decades of retelling the story and memory modification to end up with a recollection in 2019 that might bear very little resemblance to the actual events in the moment.
I have been saying the same thing for years. Check back on the forum and you will find my memory of what the voice said does not change.
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Old 13th April 2019, 02:46 PM   #2208
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I have been saying the same thing for years. Check back on the forum and you will find my memory of what the voice said does not change.
In what year did this alleged lottery win & computer purchase take place?
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Old 13th April 2019, 09:35 PM   #2209
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In what year did this alleged lottery win & computer purchase take place?
1998
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Old 13th April 2019, 11:45 PM   #2210
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On occasions the negative responses I have received has spoiled my day. I have wondered what the point of being here is. But the next day I dust myself off and continue. I still think my interpretation of experiences I have had are generally correct, and there is a spirit world.
Really? Are you not frustrated with Imre's boneheaded intransigence in that other thread? How is this thread any different?
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Old 14th April 2019, 04:36 AM   #2211
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Originally Posted by Scorpion View Post
1998
So 15 years before you joined this forum for you to take the memory out, alter it slightly and then re store it. You understand that's how everyone's memory works, right? The more often you've remembered something, the less likely it is that what's now stored in your memory is an accurate representation of what actually happened. Then there's the confirmation bias I referred to in my previous post, which I notice you ignored. All in all an extremely unimpressive anecdote on which to base a world view which is at odds which everything a couple of centuries of scientific investigation has taught us about how the world actually works.

I'm on holiday in Holland at the moment, and spent this morning at De Haar Castle, which by lucky chance is hosting the Elfia festival this weekend.

https://www.elfia.com/en/

At the entrance to the grounds is a white line signed "Border with Reality" which people dressed in exotic costumes were making a big deal of crossing over. Fantasy is fine, indeed highly enjoyable, in its place.
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Well that explains a lot right there. Everything, really.



That and a sad degree of mental derangement.



Get help.
Well it does when one realises he has had to compartmentalised even those types of lectures to excise those that said there was life on Mars and Venus.
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Old 14th April 2019, 04:34 PM   #2213
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I have been saying the same thing for years. Check back on the forum and you will find my memory of what the voice said does not change.
Your posts in this very thread show that you render different accounts of the event all the time. Would you like me to post your varying accounts or can you read what you posted yourself?

For example, these two claims cannot both be correct...
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I was told by a female voice that I would win the lottery one hour before I did win five numbers.
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I was given a five number lottery win by telepathy from the spirit world in 1998. They gave me the numbers a few days before the draw.
But you made both of them.
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Old 15th April 2019, 01:46 AM   #2214
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Your posts in this very thread show that you render different accounts of the event all the time. Would you like me to post your varying accounts or can you read what you posted yourself?

For example, these two claims cannot both be correct...


But you made both of them.
Good catch.
Over to you, Scorpion.
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Old 15th April 2019, 09:58 AM   #2215
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Good catch.
Over to you, Scorpion.
Read post 2204 carefully and you will see my account of the events is the same. I was given the numbers by telepathy earlier in the week. The voice spoke to me twice. Once earlier in the week some time before I picked the numbers, and then an hour before the draw.
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Old 16th April 2019, 06:25 AM   #2216
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What actually happened was that in the middle of the week I was moaning to myself about having no money for a computer. At that precise moment a female voice said "help is coming from an unexpected source" . That is all it said, with no mention of the lottery. Then later in the week when I filled out the lottery card I felt a presence, and as I looked at the numbers some of them seemed to be right, like they glowed a little, so I picked them. Then one hour before the draw that week I picked up the ticket and said to myself, "maybe its worth a fortune, yea ! fat chance," and I threw the ticket down. At that moment the same female voice said " you won" It spoke soundlessly in the middle of my head, like telepathy. I never heard that particular female voice before or since.
There are plenty of similar stories involving people who win at games of chance.

For example, my brother and his wife got through a difficult financial patch by betting on two numbers in a Las Vegas roulette game which produced about $4,000 for them.

Conversely, there are many more stories where someone made a bet on a game of random chance because they were inspired by a dream, a voice, a vision, a strong feeling, etc. and yet they lost.

So just because some voice inside your head coincided with a bit of luck, that does not mean that these voices in your head are the result of some sort of supernatural encounter.
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Old 17th April 2019, 02:02 AM   #2217
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What actually happened was that in the middle of the week I was moaning to myself about having no money for a computer. At that precise moment a female voice said "help is coming from an unexpected source" . That is all it said, with no mention of the lottery. Then later in the week when I filled out the lottery card I felt a presence, and as I looked at the numbers some of them seemed to be right, like they glowed a little, so I picked them. Then one hour before the draw that week I picked up the ticket and said to myself, "maybe its worth a fortune, yea ! fat chance," and I threw the ticket down. At that moment the same female voice said " you won" It spoke soundlessly in the middle of my head, like telepathy. I never heard that particular female voice before or since.
A few more questions:
Did you play the lottery expecting to lose? I don't see why the source of the money would be unexpected otherwise.
I assume this was not the only time you played. How did you choose your numbers then? Most people, I guess, pick numbers they think are lucky, whcich is pretty much what you say you did here. Did you do this, and, if you did, can you explain why those numbers did not come up before?
Lastly, what is soundless speaking?
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Old 17th April 2019, 03:42 AM   #2218
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A few more questions:
Did you play the lottery expecting to lose? I don't see why the source of the money would be unexpected otherwise.
I assume this was not the only time you played. How did you choose your numbers then? Most people, I guess, pick numbers they think are lucky, whcich is pretty much what you say you did here. Did you do this, and, if you did, can you explain why those numbers did not come up before?
Lastly, what is soundless speaking?
Obviously I did not expect to win a substantial amount. I picked the numbers by floating the pen over them, and if a number jumped out at me I picked it.

I do the lottery every week and pick different numbers every time, I try to vibe them out , but the only time it ever worked was when a voice told me help was coming. I do not think the spirit world will ever give me a big win as that would involve karma. But on this one occasion they saw fit to help me get a computer I could not afford at the time.

Soundlessly speaking means what it says, I did not hear the voice with my ears, I heard it in my head by telepathy.
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Old 17th April 2019, 06:20 AM   #2219
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I do the lottery every week
If you've bought just one ticket a week since the UK lottery began in 1994 you've spent about £1300 on lottery tickets. Unless you've won at least that much in prizes you have not won anything on the lottery you have lost, i.e. you would be better off if you'd never played it. If you regularly buy more than one ticket a week (e.g. if you play both the weekend and the mid week lottery) you would have needed to have won even more in prizes just to break even.

The lottery is not called a tax on stupidity for nothing.
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Obviously I did not expect to win a substantial amount. I picked the numbers by floating the pen over them, and if a number jumped out at me I picked it.

I do the lottery every week and pick different numbers every time, I try to vibe them out , but the only time it ever worked was when a voice told me help was coming. I do not think the spirit world will ever give me a big win as that would involve karma. But on this one occasion they saw fit to help me get a computer I could not afford at the time.

Soundlessly speaking means what it says, I did not hear the voice with my ears, I heard it in my head by telepathy.
So, ...

You have been hearing voices from the inside of your head since at least 1998 when you bought that winning lottery ticket, and you have been playing the lottery every week since then.

Well now, if this is actually the case, then your voices sure are stingy with their lottery advice. After all, you have been in regular contact with them for at least the last 21 years and they have had over 1,000 opportunities to tell you which lottery numbers to play and yet they have only given you good lottery advice only once during all of this time.

Therefore, is possible for you to find other voices in your head who are more forthcoming with their lottery advice?
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So, ...
you have been in regular contact with them for at least the last 21 years and they have had over 1,000 opportunities to tell you which lottery numbers to play and yet they have only given you good lottery advice only once during all of this time.
Clearly that 1998-vintage computer has been a real workhorse all these years so he hasn't needed a new one. It's great 'cause the spirits got to do their awesome convince-one-dude-on-the-Internet-that-Islam-is-violent-routine using Scorpion as their weapon of choice. Totally worth it. I mean, if I was capable of doing one thing as a spirit over the past 21 years, that's definitely how I'd blow my wad.
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So, ...

You have been hearing voices from the inside of your head since at least 1998 when you bought that winning lottery ticket, and you have been playing the lottery every week since then.

Well now, if this is actually the case, then your voices sure are stingy with their lottery advice. After all, you have been in regular contact with them for at least the last 21 years and they have had over 1,000 opportunities to tell you which lottery numbers to play and yet they have only given you good lottery advice only once during all of this time.

Therefore, is possible for you to find other voices in your head who are more forthcoming with their lottery advice?
As far as I am concerned, the spirit world gave me a special dispensation
of a lottery win that was just enough money to buy a computer at a time when I had no money. But they have never said they would give me another win or a big win, and I don't think they ever will because that would be karmic.
I would be taking money away from other winners by using occult trickery and its not normally allowed. Its generally against the spirits laws.

I have a new computer, because I inherited money from an uncle, so I am not still using the computer I purchased in 1998 and I don't need any money.
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Scorpio. You stated that you are not in need of money. Which leaves me asking, are you/have you been employed?
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Scorpio. You stated that you are not in need of money. Which leaves me asking, are you/have you been employed?
Thanks.
I am on a state pension for over 65's, and I also have some money in the bank thanks to an uncle leaving me money. I worked as an electronics repair man for ten years, and had various unskilled jobs for years before I got trained.
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As far as I am concerned, the spirit world gave me a special dispensation
of a lottery win that was just enough money to buy a computer at a time when I had no money. But they have never said they would give me another win or a big win, and I don't think they ever will because that would be karmic.
I would be taking money away from other winners by using occult trickery and its not normally allowed. Its generally against the spirits laws.

I have a new computer, because I inherited money from an uncle, so I am not still using the computer I purchased in 1998 and I don't need any money.
Oh for crying out loud!

Now you are saying that there are "spirit laws".

If so, then I guess that there are ...

"spirit policemen" to enforce these spirit laws,
"spirit courts" to adjudicate these spirit laws,
"spirit prisons" to house the spirits who violate spirit laws,
"spirit archives" to record all of the cases of spirit laws,

and so on.

You just need to face the fact that you are a delusional person who needs help.
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Old 18th April 2019, 03:36 PM   #2226
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"spirit policemen" to enforce these spirit laws,
So it's true?!

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You just need to face the fact that you are a delusional person who needs help.
Or just a garden variety attention-seeking troll.
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Old 20th April 2019, 08:42 AM   #2227
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Oh for crying out loud!

Now you are saying that there are "spirit laws".

If so, then I guess that there are ...

"spirit policemen" to enforce these spirit laws,
"spirit courts" to adjudicate these spirit laws,
"spirit prisons" to house the spirits who violate spirit laws,
"spirit archives" to record all of the cases of spirit laws,

and so on.

You just need to face the fact that you are a delusional person who needs help.
Yes there are archives that not only concern our present lives, but all our past incarnations. These records are maintained by the angels of karma, and we do not normally have access to them.
I do not believe there are any prisons in the spirit world, there is no need of them because the spirit world is divided into planes of experience which go from the dark regions to the highest heavens. Each spirit goes to the plane of experience that matches their stage of spiritual evolution. Those that do evil find themselves in dark realms automatically, and they cannot rise to higher planes because they cannot bear the light. They have to work on their redemption and repent before rising to higher levels. So there need be no prisons.
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Old 20th April 2019, 10:39 AM   #2228
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Just-So Story

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Old 20th April 2019, 11:34 AM   #2229
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Originally Posted by Scorpion View Post
Yes there are archives that not only concern our present lives, but all our past incarnations. These records are maintained by the angels of karma, and we do not normally have access to them.
I do not believe there are any prisons in the spirit world, there is no need of them because the spirit world is divided into planes of experience which go from the dark regions to the highest heavens. Each spirit goes to the plane of experience that matches their stage of spiritual evolution. Those that do evil find themselves in dark realms automatically, and they cannot rise to higher planes because they cannot bear the light. They have to work on their redemption and repent before rising to higher levels. So there need be no prisons.
Again, Scorpion, how do you know this as fact?
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Old 20th April 2019, 01:08 PM   #2230
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Yes there are archives that not only concern our present lives, but all our past incarnations. These records are maintained by the angels of karma, and we do not normally have access to them.
Now you are also claiming that there are bureaucratic angels, and huge offices of records for all humans for all times. Life in Heaven sure seems to be great fun ...
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Old 20th April 2019, 02:39 PM   #2231
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Yes there are archives that not only concern our present lives, but all our past incarnations. These records are maintained by the angels of karma, and we do not normally have access to them.

By most accounts, the records in question include complete and perfect memories of the life experience of each lifetime lived by every person. This is rarely stated explicitly, but it's implicit in some of the claims that usually are made. For instance:

- If a person suffers permanent memory loss during life or near the end of life, or simply forgets things over the years, that (it is claimed) doesn't impede the process of that spirit being and able to learn from, and being held accountable for, those life experiences. So there must be a backup copy of those memories created that can be restored to the spirit later.

- Yet, those memories can only be available to the individual spirit whose incarnated life they record. (If every spirit could experience and learn from every person's life memories, the whole claimed exercise of spiritual maturation via learning experiences in multiple sequential incarnations could be carried out without requiring the continued existence of the actual world.)

These "archives" are either inadequate for their claimed purposes, or they make the world redundant. (Unless the archives are actually the world itself. Which resolves that dilemma perfectly without changing the reincarnation narrative all that much, except for the individuality of the self, which the Buddha exposed as illusory centuries ago anyhow. Perhaps most spirits need a few more lifetimes of experience before they figure that out.)
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Old 22nd April 2019, 05:13 AM   #2232
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Yes there are archives that not only concern our present lives, but all our past incarnations. These records are maintained by the angels of karma, and we do not normally have access to them.
I do not believe there are any prisons in the spirit world, there is no need of them because the spirit world is divided into planes of experience which go from the dark regions to the highest heavens. Each spirit goes to the plane of experience that matches their stage of spiritual evolution. Those that do evil find themselves in dark realms automatically, and they cannot rise to higher planes because they cannot bear the light. They have to work on their redemption and repent before rising to higher levels. So there need be no prisons.
You are quite delusional so please do get help.
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Old 22nd April 2019, 05:21 AM   #2233
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Yes there are archives that not only concern our present lives, but all our past incarnations. These records are maintained by the angels of karma, and we do not normally have access to them.

I do not believe there are any prisons in the spirit world, there is no need of them because the spirit world is divided into planes of experience which go from the dark regions to the highest heavens. Each spirit goes to the plane of experience that matches their stage of spiritual evolution. Those that do evil find themselves in dark realms automatically, and they cannot rise to higher planes because they cannot bear the light. They have to work on their redemption and repent before rising to higher levels. So there need be no prisons.
Do these records contain the details of the Martians and Venusians?
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Old 22nd April 2019, 01:02 PM   #2234
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You are quite delusional so please do get help.
Seconded. These are second rate fairy stories.
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Old 23rd April 2019, 08:50 AM   #2235
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Again, Scorpion, how do you know this as fact?
I don't know it as fact. It is just a summary of what it says in the spiritualist books I have read, and the trance lectures by mediums that I have attended.
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Old 23rd April 2019, 09:02 AM   #2236
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You are quite delusional so please do get help.
You must be joking. What help are you talking about, psychiatrists ?

The psychiatric profession wrote me off in 1971 after I was an out patient for two years, it is figured that if you do not recover in two years you never will.

I gave up on psychiatrists when they gave up on me, and I started a long search for a workable truth. I got real help from spiritualist healers in the 1970s and weaned myself off heavy medication during that time.

I discovered I could channel healing energy through my chakras and clear my head. I could also draw psychic energy from trees and nature.

I just got the bulk of my psychiatric file sent to me under the data protection act and the first thing I noticed in reading it was that no psychiatrist I have ever spoken to has ever believed a word I said. They think I am delusional too.

They are just like all of you here, and they know nothing that is of any use to me.
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Because medicine has not advance in half a century but bull crap is forever........

Still at least there is a consensus of opinion.
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Old 23rd April 2019, 02:31 PM   #2238
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I gave up on psychiatrists when they gave up on me, . . . I got real help from spiritualist healers in the 1970s and weaned myself off heavy medication during that time.
No you didn't. If anything you've told us is true, then you might have stopped taking certain drugs that you didn't like, but there is no such thing as a spiritualist healer, and none of these people were ever of any help to you. If anything, these people encouraged a decades'-long break from reality for you to serve no other purpose than their own financial gain.

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I discovered I could channel healing energy {ETA: this is not a thing} through my chakras {ETA: this is not a thing} and clear my head. I could also draw psychic energy {ETA: this is not a thing} from trees and nature.
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I just got the bulk of my psychiatric file sent to me under the data protection act and the first thing I noticed in reading it was that no psychiatrist I have ever spoken to has ever believed a word I said. They think I am delusional too.
Again, if you're doing anything here other than trolling, then you just professed belief in healing energy, chakras, and psychic energy. You are tautologically delusional.
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Call it like any name you want its you making yourself feel more stable by relaxation and other common simple tools.

Someone taught you theses exercises and called it by whatever goofy name was chic at the time.

I can stretch self imposed stress by muscle tension out if my upper back with a simple stretching movement. It works wonders. I can calm my mind in similar situations with breathing exercises and distancing myself from it for a bit.

No magic or spirits required. If I am aware of it sometimes it can be fixed. Not always of course. Madame Woo didn't need to take any if my money not could she give me a miracle for it.

Please, step back three steps and look at yourself from another point of view Sr. Scorpion. It might be revealing.
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Old 24th April 2019, 05:39 AM   #2240
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Originally Posted by Scorpion View Post
You must be joking. What help are you talking about, psychiatrists ?

The psychiatric profession wrote me off in 1971 after I was an out patient for two years, it is figured that if you do not recover in two years you never will.

I gave up on psychiatrists when they gave up on me, and I started a long search for a workable truth. I got real help from spiritualist healers in the 1970s and weaned myself off heavy medication during that time.

I discovered I could channel healing energy through my chakras and clear my head. I could also draw psychic energy from trees and nature.

I just got the bulk of my psychiatric file sent to me under the data protection act and the first thing I noticed in reading it was that no psychiatrist I have ever spoken to has ever believed a word I said. They think I am delusional too.

They are just like all of you here, and they know nothing that is of any use to me.
Please take the effort to read your own postings.

For example, it the above posting you have literally just admitted that you have had untreated mental illness for nearly 50 years. Therefore, it is not surprising that you have so many delusions about talking to dead people, knowing the laws of the spirit world, and so on.
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