Not enough evidence.

It is sad these days we don't know how to grieve and then it can lead to depression, what I am saying is it doesn't have to and IMO when people are medicated as depressed when they are grieving it doesn't help them and can make matters worse.

I seek truth I don't believe what you are saying is looking deep enough to call it's self the complete truth.

But read a couple of topics on Religion and Depression and all will fall in order.

Hi Realist,i just posted and it disappeared, LOL,....so will start again,...no there were no parting of clouds or a loud voice,LOL....he entered through my body,i knew straight away it
was the Holy Spirit,Jesus,as it was spiritual, remember i came from God he made me,so my spirit within me was reunited after so many long years without him,....i can assure you my encounter didn't happen just one evening,...i had a long journey of suffering and racking my soul to recieve him,..he witnessed to my soul that he was God and that Jesus died and was nailed to the cross,and took all of mankinds sin,...i grieved for many months, (my soul) it was as though i had lost a part of me,..so hard to explain,.....but remember this i am the same as you,..just that i walk in faith which was given to me by God,and has manifested in my spirit,the gift of the Holy Spirit,......i live my life the same as everyone else,..i have my own humour, i rant and rave at times,..i dont class myself as religious, ..i best stop whittling on,LOL,....have a good day!.....ps I've even been known to swear,LOL.and he accepts me for who i am and not what i am,in other words he looks at my heart!.

'Ruffling feathers' to me is to be thought provoking. To make others question themselves anew. An alternative view. You could say I am, in a way, attempting to educate - to open people's minds to thoughts and considerations that are alien to them - thoughts that are different - to approach a problem not head on but from an unlikely angle.

I am on a mission - a man who has a destiny - a duty - a calling if you will - to boldly go where no man has gone before etc etc.

Apart from the above I am a little mischievous too (perhaps a lot come to think of it) .

I thought Pauline was asked for her personal experience and has answered well.

Can't say I'm all that happy with the way this topic is going. I have said on a number of occasions it was, and is, irresponsible to attempt to change a person's mindset who has what can be deemed an 'unbreakable faith'. I get the feeling this is becoming far too personal.