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I'm sure very few of us "want to go" but that is nowhere near the same as being afraid to go. I'd prefer to stay alive (as long as I still had my facilities) but the idea of death holds no fear whatever.

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And it still gives zero credence to the suggestion that sceptics are somehow more fearful of death…I guess I'll never know where that came from. It feels a bit like a child asking its parent 'why?' and being told 'because I said so'.

Sorry, Wrinkly, I still don't understand but forget it for now. I can live in ignorance!

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Wrinky you are the one who keeps raising the issue of fear of death not the skeptics, doesn't that tell you something.

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It is my belief that if someone who had experienced a supernatural event would pass a lie detector test, because it would appear very real to that person, or persons.
In the same way that a mirage or a hallucination appears real. More than one person can also experience the same event in the same way that 'mass hysteria' can take over a whole group of people. Perfectly demonstrated by illusionists such as 'Dynamo' who claimed to levitate the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio. Or David Copperfields illusion of making the 'Statue of Liberty' disappear. How could Hypnotism take place if it wasn't possible to 'Fool the Senses' every person in the audience of the illusionists would most certainly have passed a Lie detector test; but we all accept that these were illusions showing how easy it is to alter ones perception of an event. In my opinion there is sufficient evidence out there to provide explanations to every supernatural event. And if you are true to yourself, you know it too. But I still enjoy a spooky story, and each spooky story will remain plausible in the mind of the believer.

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Anyone see the science programme on telly tonight called "Which Universe are we in?" The Scientists were discussing multi-universes. It seems notion, once dismissed as fantasy, is now "an idea at the cutting edge of science."

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Same thoughts here Mups - forever changing views
My views have never changed because I 'experienced' them

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I didn't but I can see that would be a credible notion I always wondered what happens if we take different decisions.

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The problem I have with this supernatural 'stuff' (based on my own experiences) is this ...

I lived alone for many years and if I watched a spooky horror film I would invariably start seeing ghosts all over the bloody place. Now what was that all about? Had I become attuned to my native spiritualist tendencies by watching said film(s), or, was it my imagination?

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I think you can scare yourself into seeing things that is true but in many cases where the person is not scared something else has to be going on. My experience neither of us were even remotely nervous we were just concerned to get the job done and get home.

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Horror films never bothered me, the most frightening one I ever saw was the Exorcist and I think that was because it had to do with the mind, the soul if you like, when things go haywire in the mind it can be really a terrifying experience for anyone. My older brother and me were mainly raised by our country grandmother and she used to tell us ghost stories at bedtime, today she probably would be locked up for that, but I’m glad she did because it rendered me immune to horror films, I find them comical most of the time now.
On the other hand my youngest brother, who never spent any time with the grandmother, is terrified of any horror film, even today and he’s 58! So there is proof that it's what you experience when you are very young will effect you later on, even into old age.