Maybe I saw my dead father... but I can't believe it now
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When my father died, in the night before his funeral, I woke up feeling someone was tucking me in. As I was opening my eyes I saw a male figure leaning to me, my father figure, or at least that was what I interpreted it. It was just a shadow. When I ended opening my eyes he disappeared.

That day, it was 15 year ago, I was sure that it was him. It comforted me and made me endure the funeral with almost no tears.

But with time, I started to think of the all experience has a trick from my brain.
I was in pain that day.

Suffering the lost of a loved one, and my brain gave me something to comfort me, to make me overcome the pain, to give strength to survive and to live.

Religion: Why people believe in God?
(originally posted on Bubblews)

Faith is something that fascinates me. I don't understand it. In my mind there is no logic to believe in a powerful being who sees all, and has strange reasons to make us suffer... If I believed I would never forgive him for letting so many people suffer the horrors they do.

Anyway, I admire those who can see beyond the logic and believe, and feel happy with their believes and feel comfort in the hardest of times. And always find a reason to defend God - "He works in mysterious ways".

Religion is something that fascinates me as a human behaviour that I can't understand. I've been to some of the most powerful places for Catholics (like the Vatican, or Assisi) and I've seated there just admiring the believers. They cried, they prayed, they made promises and thanked and left there with a smile.

And I envy them and admire them... I just can't understand how they believe in something so unbelievable, so illogic.

Is God real? What about Santa, Faeries and Elf's?

People talk publicly about their political ideas, they debate and are, sometimes, passionate about them.

Even about football, or the series on the telly. People talk debate, try to create scenarios of possible endings, better choices, what is going to happen.

Many people don't even get embarrassed talking about sex. And they debate positions, preferences, tendencies...

But when it comes to God there is not much to debate. People believe it or not. We might debate whether this religion is better or more "true" than the other, but God exists or not... and for those who do not believe, talking about His existence is a bit like debating whether or not there Father Christmas, Faeries and Elf's exist.

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Why praying to the dead?

(originally posted in Bubblews)

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Some people believe that the dead can still listen to us and, believing that, we don't know what they are going through, their souls might be in suffering, might be stuck in a reality where they no longer are.

Believers pray for the dead to let them go. It's a way to tell them they are no longer among the living, but those who are still remember, so they can rest in peace.

Other ways of praying to the dead is when people pray to Jesus or Mary, or any other so called saint which were, once, living people.

Even though believers think those souls are in peace, they had no sins, they pray to them for help. Sometimes people also do that with loved ones... for help and comfort of the living and not to change the final destiny or comfort the dead.

Do you believe in Life after Death?

A study from Southampton University came to the conclusion that people may retain consciousness, after death, for longer than is was previously believed.

Scientists studied more than 2000 people who went through cardiac arrests and were clinically dead before the doctors were able to restart their hearts.

Some say they saw fields of flowers and tigers and other animals.

And some people described watching, from a corner of the room, of from above, what the doctors and medical staff were doing to their bodies, their attempts to resuscitate them until they did.

By the descriptions scientist concluded people were aware to up 3 minutes after their hearts stopped beating and although, normally, the brain shuts down after 20 to 30 seconds.

Read more about this in: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2014/oct/14_181.shtml#.VIhBstKsVMs

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