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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 231934" data-attributes="member: 221">Re: Slightly Tangential but:As I said in my first post, I do not believe in the spirits of dead humanity returning to this earth, though I believe in the soul.  This gets pretty close to a religious discussion, but treading carefully, it is a matter of faith with me that the soul leaves the body when one dies and goes to a different place where it awaits the judgment.  I do not know that such a place could be described (or pinpointed) with physical descriptions as it is obviously a spiritual place not in this physical realm.  I think the notions of the etherael, astral plane are attempts to put such a physical description on a spiritual world but I suspect they fall far short of succeeding and that the true waiting place is very different.   I do however believe in angels and demons and as one poster has suggested, I also think some unexplained things could be attributed to them.  However, most other things that men believe occur I think can be attributed to imagination and sometimes they are simple malfunctions of the body/brain, as in sleep paralysis where one hallucinates.  I think it telling that after a successful movie about aliens, the sighting of aliens goes way up and after a successful movie about ghosts the number of ghosts sightings go way up.  Men often see what they want to see and credible evidence has to be based on the corroborating evidence of at least 2 or 3 people at a time.</blockquote>

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