General Chat

but believing in things is some peoples faith like

did jesus exist?

is there life after death?

who wrote the bible?

do ghouts exist?
etc etc etc

Some of us are able to handle both, Derek.

What sort of "unexplained things"? why the key to the shed wasnt where you put it when you looked for it?

Why the cat suddenly goes off Whiskers and prefers Felix?

Why the roses are good one year and crap the next., despite the same weather conditions, treatment, feed etc?

Dont mean to be flippant, but what "unexplained things" are you referring to?

does anyone believe in unexplained things?

Have you ever noticed that photos of so called flying saucers. Look as though they were designed by some one from that particular decade.

ie 1950s flying saucers look like they came from the 1950s', 1960s flying saucers came from the 1960s, etc.
This can only mean they are just models, created by people from those particular decades. Their design influenced by trends & fashions of those times. Then photoed as so called UFOs.

As for an after life. I hope so.
But for all I know, there is nothing after death. The light was turned on at birth & will be turned off when I die...............although over the last few years, I think someone has been playing with dimmer switch. lol

Steve

I don't like that Sally:((((

I'm not sure about Nostradamus, Trinity - a lof of his predictions can be interpreted as predicting events that have happened but people can just as reasonably say it's all rubbish. I like the idea that he could see the future so tend to think, why not:)

that could well be true

wot bout nostradamus?

Ditto Jac.

No Trinity.......all these aliens that appear on earth are humans from the future who have come back to see what life was like in the 'good old days' before we completely mucked up the planet we live on......

The big eyes developed from peering constantly at computer screens, and the long fingers for typing........the greyness came because they could not drag themselves away from their screens and didn't get any sun.......don't talk to each other because communication is all done on a screen.......no food.......no time.....

sally

I dont know what Ugers theory of life is, but mine is for living:

At the risk of seeming crass, and I dont mean to be, when you die you just die. You are no more............Your remains are disposed of in whatever fashion your family decides.

Whatever personality existed whilst you lived is extinguished: your loved ones are left with memories only - and hopefully these will sustain them in their loss of your bodily presence.

I do not believe that a godly presence offers his hand to help you to attain a higher level of being: that does not mean that I condem those that do belive - each to his own I say.

If it's comforting to folk to believe in an afterlife, then let them believe is what I say. I do not feel the need to believe personally.

Jac xxx

that could well be true

That we are born and have to do our best with what we have - that we should eat drink and merry, be as nice as we can manage but don't put up with idiots, love and laugh a lot and have plenty of sex cos we're a long time dead.

All sounds a bit "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" to me Trinity. We could go one stage further - were the aliens who are experimenting on us put on their planet by some "superior beings" as an experiment?

My feeling is that we should stop looking for explanations to everything all the time - forget the consipracy theories and just stand back and appreciate the wonderful accidents of nature and evolution.

In the meantime let's try not to totally make a mess of the planet we have.

As to swine flu - nature has a way of throwing up a disease every now and again that has an adverse effect on man:

The Ebola virus.
The 1918 flu pandemic (which was incidentally H1N1 - the same strain as the current "swine flu")
Bubonic Plague - 3 major pandemics - The Plague of Justinian 541-542 AD, The "Black Death" in the 14th Century and the "Third Pandemic" that started in China in 1855. To a lesser degree there was also the "Great Plague of London" in 1665-66.

so wots your theory on life then uggers

I do believe in God and an afterlife though. I tend to believe in things I like the idea of.

you never know derek you never know

Jean, you are so wrong about fairies.

No I don't think humans are part of an alien experiment. I think it all just is:)

he enjoyed them

and i quite open minded bout lot of things especially life afterdeath

it may not exist but can be a wonderful support for some people

I read that book Trinity (which quite frankly I lost interest in half way through)

It neither proved or disproved the theory put forward: it merely made suggestions that could not be proved or disproved.


What did your OH think of the book?

Check him out - he wrote his books to clear massive debts, was convicted of tax evasion and generally discredited by most scientists.

I read them, though - entertaining but not backed up by any science.