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I had a very "strong dream" once when my MIL was in the hospital. We had not spoken in the last year since her & FIL took my son and his cousin on a road trip and decided they were not going to bring them back. She was dying of cancer and in the hospital not going home. Hubby asked me to go see her before she died, I told him I already had the night before. I had "dreamt" I was in her room speaking with her and told hubby how long her hair was, how much gray was showing, described her fingernails, etc. He looked at me stunned for a moment, then decided he wasn't surprised after all.

Wow they took your son and nephew? ouch i would not talk either. when i was 5 i was sitting on the couch with my dad and he was asleep. MASH was on tv.(this was 2wks before he died) on the tv i saw dad walk out the front door for a walk i beged to go with him but he made me stay with my mom. I hear the sirions and say something wrong with dady she tells me nothing wrong and the phone ring and it the next door neighber calling to tell mom that dad collaps in front of there house in the street. mom runs out of the house and i follow her the emts are working on him but i know that hes not going to make it. toweeks later it played out the same wayexcept that i tell mom exacly what is going on right before it happen and i remember telling my dady dont leave me wont come back. he thought i was being overly emotional. he was a rail roader and was go alot so i pitched a fit everytime he went out of town. I was also every attached to him. maybe i knew before i saw it on tv. at that age i was scared of the backend of the trailer and I would screem muder and cry for days if any one but dad asked me to go back there with him or made me go by my self. and it was nothing if me and mom went in to a story and i would "see" some thing and if she did not go with me I picked her up and carried her out!! (i was about 100 pounds at 5 years old and she was about 75 pounds at the time). i did that one time and ever scence then when i say would sayleave she knew the next thing that came was i pick her put and we leave. she never ask why i did it but i think she understood that there was some danger taht i could see feel what ever and the terror was real. i had a preacher tell me one time that it was the devel and when i asked why the divel would protect me he truned all kinda of colors of mad. but said nothing. i have always thought that it was Gods way of protecting me. the gas station i picked my mom up and ruan out. was held up not 10 min. after we left i didnt know that until later when my mom and aunt were talking about it.. its kinda the secert that everyone knows and ecxcepts but does not talk about. i think i have repessed the gift becasuse i thought it was a curse. maybe thats one reason the church irratace me most of the time. im fine with God and Jesus,Holy Spirit, but the bible and the waythe church repesses and ignore what they cant explane or twist it out of context...?

What an amazing gift you have! That is something I have never been able to understand about Christianity (no offense intended to you at all bubbles, I respect your beliefs entirely). If we are created in God's image, wouldn't we have some of those gifts? The only bad would be if it was used for bad. Another one, astrology, God created the heavens and the earth, He put the stars there, he didn't do anything without reason. Is it bad to get insite from a reputable astrologer? I don't believe so. I do believe it is a serious weakness for somebody to live there entire life based on nothing but that, career, lifestyle, friends, spouse, etc.

It seems to me you have very strong instincts, and they have helped you protect yourself and your loved ones in the past. I just can't see anything bad in that.

I also think it is good to question everything, life is about learning. You can't learn if you don't question.

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what i question is if Wicca and Pagans do Not Worship the stars but only try to learn and gain understanding fom them then what makes them any differnt from the Wise men that followed the north star to find Jesus. and i do understand that some or part of Wiccans and Pagian believe in Jesus and God and some Dont which is a BIG differnce but as far as the lighting candle, or insence, and believeing that herbs and oils, and touch can heal. di truely dont see the problem. but the bible says you shall not suffer a witch to live but are the witches of that day or the pagians for that matter the same as the ones to day and for that matter are we sure that the word for witch is not an idtim for there culture for some thing else and not just translatter wrong. for example there is a verus taht says dont let something go to the dogs (i cant remember what the versus is or where but) we thought it ment bow bow bark bark dog and dog was slang for a male hooker. as in slept was male or female hooker... do me a favor read the story of sodem and gormora where it talks about lot and his family and read from where the angels come to town until lots daughters get pregnet and let me know if the moral of the story convad to you is that Guy men are going to hell? i am just curious because that is only a very small part of the story and to fouse on just that...it wrong!!! I am starting to believe that I just thought i was reading the bible..now i am really reading it and in a very differnt light...

When I was taught how to really read & study the bible it was by my friends who are Jehovah Witnesses. They were the ones that taught me to question, question, question. Also they taught me that messages were repeated at least 3 times in the bible, and to use other bibles to gain understanding when the language in the bible you are reading is confusing. The basic principles are things that parents should teach, other things seem to vary a bit from religion to religion, culture to culture, and person to person.

I have several bibles, and I have several books on witchcraft, pagan & wiccan traditions.

I read everything and love it here where I can ask questions and occassionaly attempt to answer one.

cool im still working on the right church am i am begining to believe the way my dad did. God is everywhere and in everything but churches want nobrian standglass people with money. God dwells in heaven and earth is His foot stool and I gladly worship where i please. of course my dad did say that there was nothing wrong with catolics the only differnce is the priest doesnt know that the collor goes in back. i think thats where i get my dry scence of humor that gets me in trouble. at the Time he was talking to a cathlic priest!!! and the man and the sister rolled with laughter if i had said it they would have been offended highly!!! btw i hope i didnt offend any one. sorry

Your dad sounds like a smart man, and very funny. No one church has a monopoly on god, he is everywhere and has many parts to his personality. I don't think the bible shows all of him at all. There is so much more. I never felt anything in a church othere than fear, but put me at home with my family, outdoors planting flowers, watching a baby be born... that is when I really FEEL.

the bible says that there is only one true God, then says have no god before me does this mean that other gods is like makeing a statue of a cow and believeing the statue of the cow is God is wrong or that there are other Gods out there that we should not worship? and If God is the only true God then do we all Worship the same One true God but diferent aspects. the Bible has Hundered of names for God to show differnt ascets. God of Love God of Pleace... and the word for God and the word used for Holy Spirit are Nutral no male not female... so i wonder if seence Jesus was male if the just assumed that They were also male and it could not have hurt any that men world the world too? so in polytheology it it really more then one God or Differnt aspcept of God?

What holydays do Wiccan and or pagians celabeate? and why?

oh yea my Dad was in to symbol and puzzle-riddles in life. and he could hear a song off the radio and pick up any instument even one he had never seen and play it right back at you. they say when i was little i could play panio and gitaur (dads faverite) and i would sing any song i heard from the first time i heard it. the words just came like breathing or i could hear the next word in the music. tahts how i spent my childhood in my room singing all by my self.

oh i just thought of something organised relgion would not have been invented yet... or we can go way way back in time and see how many earths God made oh we could stand in front of God and talk and God can go with us to see the dinaours so they will be nice and we can play with them. here big lochy lochy i just want to see what you look like...