Past Lives

[tavarish]

If you walk up to adults and ask them about the time they saw Bugs Bunny at Disneyland many of them can relate a detailed story about what happened and who was with them. The problem is that Bugs Bunny has NEVER been featured at that park so the "memory" they describe is a false one generated by the leading question.

http://mydisneymania.blogspot.com/2007/0...yland.html

Even impossible memories can be fabricated from suggestions, researchers reported at the AAAS annual meeting last week. And such memories can create physiological responses that are indistinguishable from those elicited by remembering real trauma.

So Loftus implanted a clearly impossible memory: a person in a Bugs Bunny outfit shaking hands and hugging children at Disneyland. "Bugs is a Warner Brothers character. He wouldn't be allowed on Disney premises," Loftus says. Her team recruited volunteers who had been to Disneyland earlier in their lives. They were shown an advertisement for Disneyland with pictures of Bugs and text describing a trip to Disneyland that included meeting the wascally wabbit. Weeks later, 36% of the volunteers who had seen the ads vividly recalled that they had seen Bugs Bunny in real life: They shook his hand or even hugged him, they reported.

Children are more impressionable so any parent that has a child that talks about past lives is guilty of implanting the idea through the use of leading questions.

Rhizo

Actually the inverse happened to me.

I saw Mickey Mouse going into the women's bathroom of Six Flags (Warner Brothers Theme Park)

I didn't shake his hand or anything, but that was confusing as shit.

[Dotard]

I'm an immortal therefore have no past lives.

Oh, and neither does anyone else.

[Shell B]

Has your child ever talked about a past life or exhibited phobias that may be related to a traumatic death ?

. . . no.

[Rhizomorph13]

Has your child ever talked about a past life or exhibited phobias that may be related to a traumatic death ?

. . . no.

This is the best response in this whole thread! I lolled

Rhizo

[Shell B]

Has your child ever talked about a past life or exhibited phobias that may be related to a traumatic death ?

. . . no.

This is the best response in this whole thread! I lolled

Rhizo

You should have seen my face when I read the original post.

[Autumnlicious]

When I was a child I believed in God. I have since come to the conclusion that most children can't distinguish fantasy from reality, and most adults aren't that much better (they get rid of Santa Claus, fairies, goblins, etc but keep Jesus for some reason).

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me." -- 1 Corinthians 13:11

LOL.

[KichigaiNeko]

Must admit that a past life (reincarnation) would explain some really weird shit that happens to me and my family. Mainly because I don't believe in such a thing a coincidence. Won't bore you with the details but suffice to say after about the twenty-ishth such incident I have started to wonder.

And NO I would not encourage or dis-courage child like beliefs. If the children don't find magic in their world how are they to develop the 'wonder factor' necessary to appreciate science?? Let the children dream..."interesting dreams" and leave it at that. As mine got older I would ask them "...and just what do you think you are trying to tell yourself??" Fear of water?? Well maybe we had better get you some training in swimming...did that and now daughter is more comfortable swimming with sharks than people. I had a fear of being shot by my father in full glossy 3D colour.... when I got old enough I went and took Rifle Practice lessons with a gun club.

Like I said the "weird shit" MAY look like coincidence but ... jury is still out.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Must admit that a past life (reincarnation) would explain some really weird shit that happens to me and my family.

Well I guess,if you lack the intellect or imagination to think of a rational explanation,including 'shit happens'

[KichigaiNeko]

Must admit that a past life (reincarnation) would explain some really weird shit that happens to me and my family.

Well I guess,if you lack the intellect or imagination to think of a rational explanation,including 'shit happens'

What like Labour voters??


Yeah SHIT we can deal with ...noworries mate!!

Just weird stuff along the lines of this thread. Like I said

..... past life (reincarnation) would explain some really weird shit that happens to me and my family