Endless fascination with the possibility of the "afterlife" ;

tigger I don't do secret messages. That was an attempt at levity from me, and jingle responded, that's all. I have no axes to grind.

Oh there you are Ana, was wondering when you would pop up again!

OK Grannyknot!

Boo!

Good grief life is too short for all this tosh backbiting.
"No" is a straightforward post, agreed, as no doubt was the comment about half term so next time instead of asking politely I'll restrict myself to a "No"too. Trouble is, it doesn't exactly invite discussion . . . . .
I was not trying to be sarcastic or snide or whatever you thoughttigger so leave it there. As I said this life is too short. Agreed?
(One knock for "yes", two for "No")

OK Alea (are you reading Anya).

Anya "follow me at your peril" you posted me, so why are YOU following me?

Actually, the name Tigger was used in the "Pooh books" instead of TIGER. A nice, jolly, bouncy animal.

Well fancy that - you learn something new every day

So Anya, why are you following me!

She's not following you. Everyone reads a thread when I'm on it.

!!!

Surely 6 minutes can be considered a safe distance?
Just keep remembering "nice, jolly" and what was it? Oh yes, " bouncy".

Shall we have a good old argy-bargy like we did the other night? See who can get the most deleted?

I've got to go and fry my fish and chips first though.

Laters.

Good God, is that the best you can think of for a Friday night. Didn't know you could get stuff deleted until I was.

Ok, over and out.

I am 82, and my wife, who I love dearly, passed away 2 years ago. Since then I've been hoping there is an after life, and I will see her again. Another thought, occurred to me. If there isn't an afterlife, all the struggles I've had in this life, have been in vain. When I die, and there is nothing, my 82 years on this earth will have been for nothing, my whole existence, has been pointless.

I can' see that there is any reason to think of an (certainly not 'the') 'afterlife' other than naked wishful thinking.

As for spiritualism, it has no more reality than the Cottingly Fairies, and like them was the invention of a couple of young girls playing tricks - the Fox sisters in 1848 produced rappings and knockings, upon which feeble foundation the Spiritualist Church was founded. The girls confessed before the century was out...

"Good God, is that the best you can think of for a Friday night."

. What's wrong with fish and chips?!

Perhaps tigger's a vegan...

Balini there is no real reason to suppose there isn't some kind of afterlife. Perhaps our spirits find those of the ones that we miss so much.

I'll have some chips please !
Mushy peas ??

Too late! All gone!

(trying) to get back to the original post...

IMO any conversation to do with afterlife causes controversy, with those who believe there must be 'something more than all this'...those who believe they have proof of something more than all this, and those who believe that when we die - that's it.

Someone who witnesses something 'unexplainable' may seek to find a logical/scientific explanation for the occurrence, and if there is one (which there mostly is) will rest assured. However, this isn't always the case, and for many folk things happen for which, after extensive scientific research, no reasonable explanation can be found. Luckily the majority of us go through life with no spooky incidences at all (well...not that we know of.

To me there seems to be two areas of exploration. Firstly knowledge gained by the use of ouija boards, seances, etc, and secondly physical spirit/haunting/ghost experiences that can happen whether you believe 'in all that stuff', or not. I believe the difference between these two areas is firstly the use of paraphernalia has come about through our natural curiosity to gain knowledge of everything that goes on around us - with a need to have proof, whereas the other spiritual/haunting area is beyond our knowledge, and quite often cannot, by means of logic, or science, be explained, which is extremely threatening to us.

Right....fire away.