RE: Deconversion issues.
October 31, 2011 at 7:16 pm
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2011 at 7:18 pm by Ziploc Surprise.)
(October 31, 2011 at 6:55 pm)Phaedra Wrote: Would you be ok with simply not knowing what causes the premonitions? Why ascribe them to god?
some premonitions are explainable. some I have difficulty with. It's your subconscious having a party in your head.
For example if anyone remembers the story of the 1900 hurricane in Galveston Texas. Issac what's his name's brother (Issac was the weatherman who wrongly predicted the hurricane and though he really can't be blamed for much given the pathetic instruments and data he had he is held responsible for the over 6000 deaths caused by the storm because he didn't give the order to evacuate) had a premonition that something horrible was going to happen. In that situation all the subconscious clues were there but there was a lot of denial about hurricanes at that time. The denial was such that the most plausible explanation for the bad weather was that it was just a bad storm not a hurricane. Issac what's his name wrote a paper about how it was impossible for hurricanes to hit Texas.
Anyway, when a hurricane is approaching slight clues are there to suggest that this isn't any ordinary storm. the air smells different, it kind of smells like a tropical island, it's hard to explain. The wind comes in bands but when it comes it is steady. there are gusts with the steady wind but something is very discomforting about the steady winds that don't shift in direction. You see birds that you don't usually see. Often these birds appear to be exhausted. When the storm gets closer these birds disappear. The sky is a different color the cloud cover odd looking and the waves are high for no aparent reason (if you don't know a hurricane is approaching.) The high waves roll into shore in an odd manner -somewhat steady. If you are on low ground you notice a storm surge. There are other little clues as well
These little clues stick in your subconscious. It's not enough to piece together into something verbal. Soon there is enough in your subconscious that it erupts in your conscious as a bad feeling or perhaps an image. Words to explain it are difficult but you know something is wrong.
