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If your spouse or significant other does not share your metaphysical views, how do you cope?
NLVgal mentioned that her husband is an atheist and will jump through hoops to not believe the psychic evidence witnessed by his own senses.
My own husband watches 'The Atheist Experience' ( The Atheist Experience TV Show ) on his computer and, although he usually backs down when I tell him of my experiences because I tend to be very logical and share his disdain for religious dogma and he knows I don't lie to him, he really, really, really seems to detest ALL mediums like Edwards, Van Praagh, and that Long Island woman.
I like atheists as well as religious people, but think both are too extreme which makes me think that each is fearful of something, running away.
The weird thing about my husband is that he still considers himself a Christian and will go to church occasionally, while I do not and will not. He thinks religions do a lot of good in the world and have an overall positive influence on society. I could not go and be a hypocrite.
People are funny. We can, evidently, live with incongruity.
I believe in an afterlife, know there are spiritual beings, but am not sure at all if there is a god.
I think of some of these beings as 'aliens' - irrespective if their home is on another dimension or another planet. Some are probably where the concept of angels came from, maybe of Greek and Roman gods.
How do your ideas differ (or are alike) compared to those closest to you?
I never discussed at length with my S.O on this. She knows some of mine. We have long conversations about life stuff but this has not come up so far. I think I will mention this tonight. Always an interesting subject!
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When it comes to paranormal, we both had similar experiences while spending the night at a 123 year old hotel with a checkered past. At the very least, we both agree that there are things going on that cannot be explained.
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No matter how often or how many times I have told my DH of my experiences & I have had them now for over 4 decades, he still does not believe me nor does he believe in the paranormal like I obviously do. So, no my DH does not share my views at all. He is all the time telling me there is some kind of reasonable / plausible explanation. I still tell DH all about my experiences regardless what he thinks or says. BTW hubby does not believe in God either, don't know if that has any bearing or make a hill of beans of difference on anything I've mentioned.
No matter how often or how many times I have told my DH of my experiences & I have had them now for over 4 decades, he still does not believe me nor does he believe in the paranormal like I obviously do. So, no my DH does not share my views at all. He is all the time telling me there is some kind of reasonable / plausible explanation. I still tell DH all about my experiences regardless what he thinks or says. BTW hubby does not believe in God either, don't know if that has any bearing or make a hill of beans of difference on anything I've mentioned.
A famous psychic/medium, while I was watching, was asked if there was a god. He looked very uncomfortable and said that honestly, he did not know. He'd never seen a god. That does not mean that no one hears our prayers, though.
Yes, there is a plausible explanation. I think there are some sort of laws that govern everything. It's just that today's science does not know everything yet. There was a time when it was thought we could not fly. There was a time in which it was thought a car going over five miles an hour would kill the bodies inside. (There was sometimes a guy walking before a slow moving car, waving a red flag to get pedestrians out of the way and to warn carriages with horses that they were coming).
I suspect that as science advances more of this stuff will be understood.
I never discussed at length with my S.O on this. She knows some of mine. We have long conversations about life stuff but this has not come up so far. I think I will mention this tonight. Always an interesting subject!
We'd appreciate it if you could share, if you can.
While this topic is not easy for some to talk about, I found that reading on Humanities will help clarify some things. My beliefs and those of others are very different, along with religion et al. Love is the common denominator, you see if you love anyone enough you will be able to live well with each other, even though you have different opinions.
As for science- they have not caught up yet.
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No matter how often or how many times I have told my DH of my experiences & I have had them now for over 4 decades, he still does not believe me nor does he believe in the paranormal like I obviously do. So, no my DH does not share my views at all. He is all the time telling me there is some kind of reasonable / plausible explanation. I still tell DH all about my experiences regardless what he thinks or says. BTW hubby does not believe in God either, don't know if that has any bearing or make a hill of beans of difference on anything I've mentioned.
We're opposite -- I believe and nothing has ever happened to me and hubby doesn't and stuff has happened to him.
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