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Sherapy

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27 minutes ago, Sherapy said:

I truly appreciate your honesty and your empathy. 

Then we are cool!:tu:

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On 10/25/2021 at 10:10 AM, Desertrat56 said:

We all have different perspcetives about what reincarnation means.   It seems that the reincarnation is not usually instant.   And not everyone reincarnates.  I think also, that heaven is subject to interpretation.  Some want the pearly gates and St. Peter's list to determine if you get to go sit and sing for the angels, others want some paradise where any whim they have is granted.   And some think there is no heaven, but rather a reuniting with the "all that is" that we stepped away from to have an experience as a human on planet earth.   What is your belief about heaven?

Heaven  a spiritual world? I have a hard time believing in :(   I can`t contact all my love ones spirits that passed away :( and I don't believe in any of the readers and oracles that just want to make money:(

 Fortune-telling - Wikipedia

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Also my daughters went to a clairvoyant and paid 200 hundred dollars.  She said  one had 51 lives the other had  60 lives. Gave some locations but no names, so how do I believe in reincarnation?  why can`t we all be clairvoyants,

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7 minutes ago, docyabut2 said:

Also my daughters went to a clairvoyant and paid 200 hundred dollars.  She said  one had 51 lives the other had  60 lives. Gave some locations but no names, so how do I believe in reincarnation?  why can`t we all be clairvoyants,

People will sell anything they can get away with.  If reincarnation is real, it doesn't matter how many past lives anyone has.   I"m sorry your daughters paid so much money to someone like that.   

As for all of us being clairvoyants, I think we are  all able to get information in a non-physical manner but are taught to ignore it.  A lot of people want someone to make decisions for them so they will pay a "psychic" to tell them stuff they already know, or stuff that isn't real and base their lives on that instead of common sense.   

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11 minutes ago, Desertrat56 said:

As for all of us being clairvoyants, I think we are  all able to get information in a non-physical manner but are taught to ignore it.

Our brains are designed to look for patterns. So any "psychic" hunch is just that part kicking in. 

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On 10/26/2021 at 5:53 PM, Desertrat56 said:

People will sell anything they can get away with.  If reincarnation is real, it doesn't matter how many past lives anyone has.   I"m sorry your daughters paid so much money to someone like that.   

As for all of us being clairvoyants, I think we are  all able to get information in a non-physical manner but are taught to ignore it.  A lot of people want someone to make decisions for them so they will pay a "psychic" to tell them stuff they already know, or stuff that isn't real and base their lives on that instead of common sense.   

to add the  clairvoyant said to  one of my daughters that her father was a  brother in her past life and to the other daughter her husband was her  husband in France in her past life. so why couldn't  she knows their names in finding their bodies :( I `m  having a hard time to believe in  reincarnations,:( what makes you all to believe in  reincarnations? I studied  all the books and  Edgar Cayce and children on  reincarnations.

 

Bizarre And Haunting Reincarnation Stories Of Children ⋆ (woopdedo.com)

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 Do children just have memory cells in heredity  ?

The suggestion, highlighted again this week, that donor patients could not only be acquiring the organs but also the memories - or even the soul - of the donor is surely one such story.

 

Can we really transplant a human soul? | Daily Mail Online

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1 hour ago, docyabut2 said:

oh anyone ?

Hi Docyabut

I don't know and will have to wait until I see some serious scientific research on the possibility of having those memories all I have seen to date are stories about this and that doesn't bear much weight on the subject for me.:tu:

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On 10/19/2021 at 5:56 PM, Sherapy said:

 An interesting article, interested in posters thoughts. All voices are welcome.
 

 

“The researchers offered a possible explanation for their finding: Religious people feel better about themselves in religious countries not because they're religious, but simply because they fit in with the crowd.”
 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/religion-happiness_n_1219295

Yes Sherapy, and Everybody here, i wanna share my voice totally related to what you shared with us.

i just hope you share (with people who actually need when you feel like it), this gigantic self-esteem-enhancer, from The Urantia Papers, this section (of Paper 130) from this divine revelation.

But there is so much more enhancement of self-esteem from the invisible celestial authors/revelators of URANTIA in others of its sections, so please accept this particularly:

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6. The Young Man Who Was Afraid

130:6.1 (1437.1) While they were up in the mountains, Jesus had a long talk with a young man who was fearful and downcast. Failing to derive comfort and courage from association with his fellows, this youth had sought the solitude of the hills; he had grown up with a feeling of helplessness and inferiority. These natural tendencies had been augmented by numerous difficult circumstances which the lad had encountered as he grew up, notably, the loss of his father when he was twelve years of age. As they met, Jesus said: “Greetings, my friend! why so downcast on such a beautiful day? If something has happened to distress you, perhaps I can in some manner assist you. At any rate it affords me real pleasure to proffer my services.”

130:6.2 (1437.2) The young man was disinclined to talk, and so Jesus made a second approach to his soul, saying: “I understand you come up in these hills to get away from folks; so, of course, you do not want to talk with me, but I would like to know whether you are familiar with these hills; do you know the direction of the trails? and, perchance, could you inform me as to the best route to Phenix?” Now this youth was very familiar with these mountains, and he really became much interested in telling Jesus the way to Phenix, so much so that he marked out all the trails on the ground and fully explained every detail. But he was startled and made curious when Jesus, after saying good-bye and making as if he were taking leave, suddenly turned to him, saying: “I well know you wish to be left alone with your disconsolation; but it would be neither kind nor fair for me to receive such generous help from you as to how best to find my way to Phenix and then unthinkingly to go away from you without making the least effort to answer your appealing request for help and guidance regarding the best route to the goal of destiny which you seek in your heart while you tarry here on the mountainside. As you so well know the trails to Phenix, having traversed them many times, so do I well know the way to the city of your disappointed hopes and thwarted ambitions. And since you have asked me for help, I will not disappoint you.” The youth was almost overcome, but he managed to stammer out, “But—I did not ask you for anything—” And Jesus, laying a gentle hand on his shoulder, said: “No, son, not with words but with longing looks did you appeal to my heart. My boy, to one who loves his fellows there is an eloquent appeal for help in your countenance of discouragement and despair. Sit down with me while I tell you of the service trails and happiness highways which lead from the sorrows of self to the joys of loving activities in the brotherhood of men and in the service of the God of heaven.”

130:6.3 (1437.3) By this time the young man very much desired to talk with Jesus, and he knelt at his feet imploring Jesus to help him, to show him the way of escape from his world of personal sorrow and defeat. Said Jesus: “My friend, arise! Stand up like a man! You may be surrounded with small enemies and be retarded by many obstacles, but the big things and the real things of this world and the universe are on your side. The sun rises every morning to salute you just as it does the most powerful and prosperous man on earth. Look—you have a strong body and powerful muscles—your physical equipment is better than the average. Of course, it is just about useless while you sit out here on the mountainside and grieve over your misfortunes, real and fancied. But you could do great things with your body if you would hasten off to where great things are waiting to be done. You are trying to run away from your unhappy self, but it cannot be done. You and your problems of living are real; you cannot escape them as long as you live. But look again, your mind is clear and capable. Your strong body has an intelligent mind to direct it. Set your mind at work to solve its problems; teach your intellect to work for you; refuse longer to be dominated by fear like an unthinking animal. Your mind should be your courageous ally in the solution of your life problems rather than your being, as you have been, its abject fear-slave and the bond servant of depression and defeat. But most valuable of all, your potential of real achievement is the spirit which lives within you, and which will stimulate and inspire your mind to control itself and activate the body if you will release it from the fetters of fear and thus enable your spiritual nature to begin your deliverance from the evils of inaction by the power-presence of living faith. And then, forthwith, will this faith vanquish fear of men by the compelling presence of that new and all-dominating love of your fellows which will so soon fill your soul to overflowing because of the consciousness which has been born in your heart that you are a child of God.

130:6.4 (1438.1) “This day, my son, you are to be reborn, re-established as a man of faith, courage, and devoted service to man, for God’s sake. And when you become so readjusted to life within yourself, you become likewise readjusted to the universe; you have been born again—born of the spirit—and henceforth will your whole life become one of victorious accomplishment. Trouble will invigorate you; disappointment will spur you on; difficulties will challenge you; and obstacles will stimulate you. Arise, young man! Say farewell to the life of cringing fear and fleeing cowardice. Hasten back to duty and live your life in the flesh as a son of God, a mortal dedicated to the ennobling service of man on earth and destined to the superb and eternal service of God in eternity.”

130:6.5 (1438.2) And this youth, Fortune, subsequently became the leader of the Christians in Crete and the close associate of Titus in his labors for the uplift of the Cretan believers.

130:6.6 (1438.3) The travelers were truly rested and refreshed when they made ready about noon one day to sail for Carthage in northern Africa, stopping for two days at Cyrene. It was here that Jesus and Ganid gave first aid to a lad named Rufus, who had been injured by the breakdown of a loaded oxcart. They carried him home to his mother, and his father, Simon, little dreamed that the man whose cross he subsequently bore by orders of a Roman soldier was the stranger who once befriended his son.

 

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1 hour ago, Luis Marco said:

i just hope you share (with people who actually need when you feel like it), this gigantic self-esteem-enhancer, from The Urantia Papers, this section (of Paper 130) from this divine revelation.

Hi Louis

I see you have come back so I guess all has gone well with you.

You have a thread already about the Urantia that you have given an invitation to discuss it and give people the opportunity to engage you and would suggest that you try to develop that thread properly without priming backfire by advertising in other threads. I have been waiting for you to get that thread fired up properly before I start in on you and as Will is my witness it may not be as much fun for you as you think it will be.:D:tu:

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17 hours ago, jmccr8 said:

Hi Louis

I see you have come back so I guess all has gone well with you.

You have a thread already about the Urantia that you have given an invitation to discuss it and give people the opportunity to engage you and would suggest that you try to develop that thread properly without priming backfire by advertising in other threads. I have been waiting for you to get that thread fired up properly before I start in on you and as Will is my witness it may not be as much fun for you as you think it will be.:D:tu:

Hi, Jmccr8, i am very well, thanks, i hope you are very well too; i don't have time today for answering my own topic, so i will do it tomorrow, ooops...

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On 11/13/2021 at 11:49 PM, Luis Marco said:

Yes Sherapy, and Everybody here, i wanna share my voice totally related to what you shared with us.

i just hope you share (with people who actually need when you feel like it), this gigantic self-esteem-enhancer, from The Urantia Papers, this section (of Paper 130) from this divine revelation.

But there is so much more enhancement of self-esteem from the invisible celestial authors/revelators of URANTIA in others of its sections, so please accept this particularly:

 

Hey @Will Due you have a Urantia cohort.   Bien Venidos, Luis.  

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