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A question for believers.

For those who believe in the supernatural, an afterlife, etc, etc - what was the single moment you went from a skeptic, or on the fence to a full fledged believer? Or was there one single moment?

I know, I know, there are a lot of non believers out there - hell, I'm probably one of them most of the time. But this question is for believers only - which makes sense because if you don't believe you couldn't answer this question anyway.
hunkalove · 61-69, M
I think most people are so afraid of dying they will believe anything that will save them.
Ynotisay · M
@hunkalove I've never heard that but it does make absolute sense. Reincarnation was invented well before the bible and since they were picking and choosing what to include I guess they saw the downside to it.
hunkalove · 61-69, M
@Ynotisay it was in 543AD and the Roman emperor Justinian I changed it. And you could be put to death for saying you believed in Reincarnation.
Ynotisay · M
@hunkalove Interesting. Thanks for that. Guess they didn't want people coming back. Better to keep them all under one cloudy roof. It's a more exclusive club.
Isthisit · F
Ive always believed in an afterlife. Ive read stories and stuff. It wasnt until after my dad died that it was confirmed within me that the stories ive heard are actually true. The night after my dad passed away he came to me in my dream he was surrounded by the brightest light it was eminating out from him. I felt peace and love to the extent ive never felt here on earth. He had no clothes on i could just see the outline of his body he had his arms stretched out to each side and he looked really proud. It was so beautiful. I knew it was his final goodbye to me and to let me know he is ok. I was awe struck by it. My dad was a wonderful hardworking happy go lucky person. He was very devout and humble. Believed in god. Was christian. Never spoke bad about anyone.
If thats what happens to us when we die we have nothing to fear.
@Isthisit A lot of people this kind of thing happens to. It makes you truly wonder because so many people have similar stories.
SW-User
I'm the one in a million that was properly taught in school. Nature provides afterlives and the supernatural doesn't exist. I know all the arguments and evidence for this.
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SW-User
@Ynotisay Wow. So ignorant. I rate you 6% perceptually aware and with a serious attitude problem.
SW-User
@ReaperLinda Science easily explains awareness. An energy matrix of sufficient and correctly linked complexity produces awareness. There's no reason to overthink this explanation. It simply is.
Believing a little is like being a little pregnant. You either do or don’t.

History has shown nothing but achievements that are built on previous achievements. The supernatural, paranormal, occult, and other magic based realizations (for lack of a better word) has absolutely zero historical significance or impact. Science has record of reliability. Isn’t that better?
@BlueSkyKing [media=https://youtu.be/5ZQicPZEfPA]
SW-User
I was living in the YMCA 7th floor in 99 from march til may I think. Was wide awake in bed alone in my little room. Then next to me on the bed, in the bed, I felt something whacking off next to me, except nothing was there. It went on for about a minute. I just sat up in bed stunned at what I felt. So, couldn't explain that one
exexec · 61-69, C
No single moment. I was curious and did a lot of research when I was in high school, reading such things as work by Dr. J. B. Rhine on parapsychology at Duke Univesity. Then I talked to believable people who had experiences. Finally, I was exposed to the work of Olga and Ambrose Worrall and their healing.
SW-User
Life left me with no other option to believe in God, there were no earthly ways of “saving” me but the minute I finally opened my heart to God’s love my entire life changed
CBarson · 51-55
There have always been spirits around me, and I have always able to talk to them, even as a young child.
Alyosha · 31-35, M
I had a vision. It was followed by apparitions.
Due to my near death out of body experience before I turned three years of age, I was always a believer in the supernatural, but NOT in deities.
@NativePortlander1970 - There is definitely a difference. Most people blanket everything, ghosts, gods, everything with the word supernatural. I'm just keeping it general for the sake of keeping it simple.

Has anyone ever tried to tell you that your out of body experience probably wasn't that at all? That it was probably a dream or something? I hear crap like that all the time.
@ReaperLinda No, even my uber extremist religious mother believes me because of what I described while outside my body, a blue light I looked into, apparently telling my Dad after my trach tube was removed that it was like looking into eternity. I saw the same blue light again when I was 8 2/3 and told my Dad about it again, which shook him up hard, he told my mother later that night while sobbing I told him the same thing after my trach tube was removed.

 
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