@ammerle@RcgWho47810@BiblicalBeauty This can be done, of course, since the Holy Spirit can speak to you even when you are not listening to Hillsong or watching Benny Hin.
@ElleWell27@BiblicalBeauty It is not a strawman when we are encountering women who have drawn a line in the sand so far away from the real problems of this world that everything outside of their cloistered little world is "evil".
@neenzeey Off the top of my head (and looking at the top shelf in my library), I've found a first edition hardcover of Madame Curie, several very old (100+ years) dictionaries, family Bibles with marriage and birthdates in them, and old, signed school text books from 100+ years ago.
@ThebookishC If I put a book down and get distracted with life for a few days and my wife "cleans the house" and the book ends up lost somewhere on our bookshelves, that's probably best classified as a DNF without guilt.
@SavvyTamz_57 When my wife was diagnosed with cancer, I had to silently mull the possibility of losing her. Remembering all the years we have been together, the inside jokes, the nuances we understand about each other, I realized that she is irreplaceable.
That is the best word to use.
@RobotSynergy I don't want to tell people "your mother is still here" if the only thing I can pick up are a few memories of them as a child and a strong sense of motherly love. So I'm usually quiet about it and assume/hope that the true spirit of that person has gone on to a better place.
@RobotSynergy Quite often they will leave behind "prayers" on people or places, so I can sense their presence (and memories) even when they themselves are gone. I don't think this is demonic; it does seem sincere.
@AlysssaHazel It definitely is a prelude to the rest of the story.
The third book reads so differently from the first, but includes plot aspects from those first two, that you might feel like it's a different series altogether.
But it's a great read.
@sheerah_co@rabbriansamuel Parallel to this is the art of letting grieving people at a memorial service imagine strange and non-doctrinal visions of their loved ones in heaven (often doing odd and non-doctrinal things up there) as a means to comfort themselves.
@rusty_medic3@rabbriansamuel I agree. I have never made an effort to contact the spiritual world. Usually they just interrupt my life and I deal with them in the same way I deal with a human who shows up on my doorstep asking for help.
@rabbriansamuel For the record, I have encountered plenty of spiritual phenomena that presented themselves as if they were spirits that had not yet "gone into the light" or whatever, but never one that seemed to have returned from that "light".
@rabbriansamuel I have never met a ghost that came back from heaven.
I have encountered something claiming to have returned from heaven...but it was not the spirit of the deceased person it was claiming to be.
Essentially, it was a lying spirit.
@RGRyan777 I have "other peoples' deaths" experiences.
I've even been able to track some of them down.
It is quite upsetting sometimes.
But I've never seen where the spirits go after they are done visiting me.