[Maryjane]

I appear to have hit a nerve with you.

You mean when you accused me of lying? Meh..think what you want. I know who I am.

I didn't see this profile comment otherwise I wouldn't have asked. So, my second assumption was correct.

It was there. Down near where it says I'm in the atheist/agonostic group..other side of the page.

I agree, why would it have mattered? If you are hinting that I may be homophobic, I am not.

Then why did you ask? I'm not hinting at anything. I'm just curious if we are debating a topic or my sexuality?

Are you looking at yourself in a mirror? :o)

Just dishing it back out.

Are you suggesting that the word atheist shouldn't be used? Is there another word that you suggest? One which wouldn't make you feel uncomfortable?

Allow me to repeat myself.... you keep harping on atheists like it's the reason we disagree with your belief there are spirits or an after life. I'm not uncomfortable, I just find your responses anal.

I sense that a part of you, the spiritual part, wants to accept that the conversations with your deceased husband actually occur and are real. I use the word "accept" and not "believe" as often they are intuitive feelings BUT the cold, clinical intellectual part of you; the part that screams for evidence; the 'don't be so silly' critical woman part of you, who thinks you are being weak and woosy for even considering such nonsense...

Your senses are off. Stick with what you know. Woosy and weak aren't in my vocabulary.

Therefore, the conflict between your intuitive more spiritual side - the side that 'knows" rather than "believes" - is being suppressed by the clinical and highly critical 'I need evidence, evidence, evidence' intellectual side.

All of a sudden you know me? You couldn't even figure out that I'm a female. That's kinda like waiting for the rapture don't ya think? I could waste all my time wishing for something to come true. In the end...all I'd have done was wasted my time on useless nonsense. Believe if you want..I have better things to do. You might want to brush up on your psychology.

There is a major difference between 'knowing' and 'believing', in my view. One is emotional, the other intellectual. Feelings are real if you genuinely feel them. The intellect is not. The only thing that is real, in my view, are your feelings and intuition.

Come back and haunt me when you are dead and offer up some proof. Until then, you know nothing.

Interesting point. I have read stories where deceased peeping toms stalk bedrooms but most people are too busy in their next life to even bother.

Busy doing what? Where's your proof?

So, why not put your critical intellectual part away and explore your intuitive side. What have you got to lose? You have a strong connection with your deceased husband so why not explore this further?

Been there done that. I told you I've studied up on all this supernatural stuff. Besides, I've already lost the most important thing to me. I'm tired of loss. Life is for the living.

For example, quite a number of people visit the Monroe Institute with the specific desire to contact deceased loved ones. They want to know and learn the techniques required to achieve this. They wish to create and then be in control of their OOBES.

Yea, I'll be sure to call them. They probablly charge a nice fee to help out those poor desperate souls in search of contacting a loved ones...just like everyone else in the "death" business.

Already, you have experienced lucid dreams. Why not attempt the next step? Perhaps, your husband is even gently pushing you towards that next adventure?

Perhaps you should concentrate on debating and not worry about my personal life so much? It seems you can't after I've already requested you to, so I'll withdraw from this debate untill you offer up a real argument.