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File: ada08a15d23e958⋯.png (571.48 KB, 881x587, 881:587, pondering.png)

 No.29386

Backstory

So when i was in highschool, i was in the lunch line and whatever, and the school i was in had a mandatory fruit policy, and i was also buying fruit gummies along with my regular lunch

at the checkout i thought to myself 'oh haha fruit gummies are a fruit aren't they'

and then the lunch lady said "Did you just say fruit gummies were a fruit?'

and i was just dumbfounded

i did get a fruit and all

 No.29395

I was about 14, I went shopping with my family. As I was getting out of the car, something told me to wait a moment, not like a voice telling me to wait, it was a strong feeling. Half a second later, a bike passed in front of the car at a very high speed, like 30 centimetres away from me.


 No.29399

During Christmas I was sitting on the bed near the Christmas tree, and after some minutes of sitting I had a thought - "What if the tree fell?". And a few seconds later it actually fell.

Another one - I lived with my mother and her brother, and he was supposed to move out soon. That day, after I woke up I told my mother "Beware your brother, because I had a dream he punched you in the face". After he came back from work, he was supposed to give her money for rent for that month, but he said he's not paying shit. She didn't expect that at all of course. And we were very poor, so even though it wasn't a literal punch in the face, it almost felt like it.


 No.29439

>>29386

I never believed in psychics and to this day I assume every psychic I hear about or encounter is a fraud.

However, when I was about 14 my dad and stepmom and I were on vacation CA (Laguna Beach area), and we went to a mall and in this open courtyard there was a "gypsy" lady all set up. I mean, she went full Esmeralda gypsy - she had a tall, skinny round silk tent set up, she was dressed all gypsy-ish, and she was offering psychic readings for what I'm sure was probably a ludicrous price.

But we were bored and had dat vacay money to burn, so we thought fuck it, this'll be entertaining.

Before we approached my stepmom said to me, "Don't tell her anything, and don't let her know if she's getting hot or cold. Just let her talk and we'll see how she does." Sounded good to me.

Stepmom goes first. The lady reads her palm and tells her all sorts of things - the reading was surprisingly long and meandering. One of the things I remember, is she told my stepmom she would have another child. And my stepmom scoffed. Didn't say anything, just scoffed. But the gypsy lady wasn't put off, and continued onward.

My stepmom was very obviously well into her 40s at this time, and had already been menopausal for years. Not only that, but she had her tubes tied when she was like 21 years old (after much arguing with doctors who were reluctant to do this). She was clearly NOT going to have any children.

So, based on this, we both decided this lady was not just a fraud, but retarded.

More than 10 years later, when I was grown up and moved out, my stepmom was running a therapy thing for troubled kids (she hates kids but loves to do things that make other people think highly of her) and one boy who was in government custody, grew on my dad who was also orphaned, and they decided to foster him. So she did, against all odds, end up with another kid. (Another as in additional to myself. She has zero biological children.)

The gypsy didn't say anything about blood relation, just that she would be mother to another child. That counts in my book.

So I believe that THIS stereotypical gypsy-dress-up-playing woman actually did have intuitive abilities.

….And I cannot remember ANYTHING she said to me. Not one line. She gave me the most thorough and encompassing psychic evaluation of what was to come for me, throughout pretty much my whole life, and I didn't bother to retain any of it because from the time I left her tent until 10 years later, I took her for a scam artist.


 No.29440

File: 2fbf78fc36b61e6⋯.gif (803.58 KB, 500x282, 250:141, gypo.gif)

>>29439

gif related


 No.29442

File: 1546adac80e54ec⋯.gif (684.91 KB, 250x288, 125:144, toldyou.gif)

>>29439

>>29440

Here's more about another "psychic" lady.

My stepmom had this friend named Heather.

Heather claimed to be a psychic. But she was more of a Christian psychic than a gypsy type psychic. Older lady, straight silver hair, and quite nice.

We lived in an old farmhouse. The first time Heather came over, she stepped through the door and she said, "There are many children here!"

Dead ones. She meant dead ones.

Originally, the property had three buildings. A one room building where the family lived and slept, a seperate one room kitchen, and a barn (All of which are still standing). The kitchen was eventually moved and repurposed into a storage shed, and the original one room house was built onto. They added a second floor with bedrooms, a balcony, and a bathroom downstairs. Then they started ordering additions when catalogue homes became a thing. So half the house is over a century old, and is original to the first pioneering family on that land, and the other half of the house, is maybe 30 years newer. A bunch of kids died of measles or some shit in their bedroom upstairs in the old half of the house. I only know of one other death on the property, where a hired hand was run over by a team of horses pulling an old fashioned plough. Mostly dead children though. Make of that what you will.

One time, Heather told me I would have an orange cat. A couple weeks later, I came home and there was my stepmom, holding in her hands an orange tabby kitten and a calico kitten. Another ranches cat had had a litter and they were trying to get rid of them, so she went and picked out two. I remain convinced that if my stepmom had not heard Heather say I would have an orange cat, she would not have brought one home.

Aside from this, Heather would mostly do unimpressive "psychic" things. Like hold out a handful of three candies, two red, and one green, and then whichever one I picked, she would say, "I knew you would pick that one." Sure, Heather.

Anyways, for as long as I knew Heather she claimed to be a psychic and would try to show it off with little predictions, or retroactively stating "I knew X would happen" and she claimed she could feel and see many spirits about. And she always was very calm and relaxed about this.

Heather got terminal cancer and when she was told she was going to die, and then began actively dying and confined to a hospice, she became overwhelmed with fear and terror and panic. I've known and spent time with only a couple people who knew they were dying in my life, and while it is scary for everyone, Heather is the only one I knew who was hysterical with fear about it.

I know that certain types of cancer, brain cancers and other late stage cancers, as well as some cancer treatments, can make people… not themselves. Mentally.

But it still stands out as odd to me that the person who claimed to know and understand more of the "other side" than anybody else, ended up being the most terrified to go there.


 No.29449

>>29442

Or maybe she had been trying her whole life to convince herself that spirits are real and that there's "another side", precisely because she was afraid that death is actually the end…

My gay uncle has lost a few friends to aids. He told me that during their last few months, they all become nervous, they can't stay still and they feel the need to find something to keep themselves busy all the time. I'm not sure if it's something to do with the illness or if that's just how people react when they don't believe in an afterlife.


 No.29450

>>29449

I think that generalized restlessness comes regardless of belief and probably has more to do with the anxiety to make every second count. I think even if you're not doing anything important (not much a dying person does does count since they're no longer building for a future or pursuing long term goals) but they can't stand to spend time doing nothing.

And when I say hysterical, I do mean hysterical. Having outbursts of shrieking and sobbing and just being so horrified to die. My nana was a believer in God and heaven, and when her time was near (also with cancer) she became very quiet and contemplative.


 No.29452

>>29449

>>29450

Also, my dad has had a few heart attacks and knows he will never get better. He doesn't know when he'll die but knows his life expectancy is likely only a few more years. He started to find god in his old age, but now he knows he doesn't have long, he's secretly become very religious. He was an outspoken atheist in his younger years. But generally his attitude is "I'm basically a cripple, my life fucking sucks, I wish I were dead already."

But I don't have any beliefs about death really, and I don't understand how some people need to believe in god and an afterlife for comforts sake.

In my mind, I'd be much more anxious about death if I thought there was a god, and heaven, and hell. Reincarnation I could handle okay, but if there's a christian type god and afterlife, that fucking sucks.

If christians are right, then god has a plan for you. So then you need to worry about, "Did I do what I was supposed to with my time on earth?"

And if there's a heaven and hell then you need to worry about making the cut. "Am I going to be allowed into heaven? Did I follow the right religious sects' rules? Or the wrong ones? If I do go to heaven, what if the people I love and have gone before me aren't there? Then I'm stuck there while they're in hell? What if I go to hell?"

I'm most inclined to believe that there isn't anything to dying at all, and if there is an afterlife, it's just another pile of worries that will continue after you're dead then. I'd rather just stop existing and stop thinking and stop having things to worry about. That seems way more comforting to me than believing we continue into some unknown eternal plane.


 No.29453

File: 0e09932b28fd156⋯.jpg (47.31 KB, 800x596, 200:149, 1306157199883.jpg)

>>29450

>I think that generalized restlessness comes regardless of belief

>My nana was a believer in God and heaven, and when her time was near (also with cancer) she became very quiet and contemplative


 No.29454

>>29453

What's your point?

Heather was a Christian, she went out kicking and screaming the whole way. My nana was a Christian, and she accepted it with dignity.

Most dying people experience general restlessness, whether they are believers or not.

Restlessness is difference from fear vs. acceptance.


 No.29455

>>29452

We're going a bit off-topic, but speaking as an atheist, I can understand why people want to believe in god and heaven. What's more pleasing to the heart, the idea that our lives have meaning and that the universe is fundamentally just, or that we suffer in vain and then just stop existing? If I was a christian, my only worry would be that my friends and relatives might not end up in heaven, but if they were good people, I'd trust god to forgive them.


 No.29456

>>29455

>What's more pleasing to the heart, the idea that our lives have meaning and that the universe is fundamentally just, or that we suffer in vain and then just stop existing?

I think that depends on whether you had a good life/enjoyed living, or just tolerated being alive.

Like, I'm not suicidal or depressed. But I feel like I tolerate living. I'm not particularly grateful for it. So it'd be a relief for me to just stop existing. The idea of going on for another 20 years drains me - I don't even want to think about going on for eternity.

I can try to understand why other people feel differently, but I don't think I'll ever really get it.


 No.29464

>>29386

One time like a few weeks ago I correctly guessed which face a coin landed on 10 times in a row before I flipped the coin.

Another time my roomate bought a big airsoft rifle and I correctly guessed the exact price without looking at it, i also guessed that he bought a rifle before he came inside my apartment. Lately I've been able to correctly guess different metrics about things that I don't know. (Like the price of something)

I've also been able to complete people's sentences in my mind before they complete it themselves. Some of my dreams have been prophetic.

Notes- this is all after I started worshiping lol, so there may be a correlation.


 No.29604

Here's a shitty greentext

>texting girlfriend

>parents tell me to do dishes

>tell gf I'll be back

This is very important

>don't tell her why

>put wrong soap in dishwasher

>come back and keep talking

>get yelled at

>gf asked if I fucked up the dishes

>mfw


 No.29605

>>29604

Forgot the pic




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