"Heaven is for Real" Book About Boy's Experience in Afterlife
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[quote]When pastor Todd Burpo and his wife, Sonja, asked their 4-year-old son Colton a simple question, they never expected his extraordinary response: Colton recounted an experience that reinforced their faith forever[/quote]
Basically a boy years ago was very sick in the hospital and when his parents asked him about it, he said he went to heaven and met his great-grandfather and described what he looked like even though he had never seen him before as well as his almost sister who was miscarried
I'm sure there's logical explanations here but still an interesting story and worth watching
[url]http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42154263/ns/today-books/[/url]
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this is reallly late.
first one to rage over the wishful thinking is a fucking retard
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;28753768]
I'm sure there's logical explanations here but still an interesting story and worth watching
[/QUOTE]
Logical explanation to what?
This isn't a statue leaking oil (which turned out to be a scam created by a priest)
It's a kid who had a dream. Do you think what ever nightmarish fiends that are in your dreams are real?
Logical explanation is
[img]http://www.drug-facts.org/templates/images/Morphine_sulfate2.jpg[/img]
It's one hell of a drug.
You know it's late when it's from msn.com
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;28753768]Basically a boy years ago was very sick in the hospital and when his parents asked him about it, he said he went to heaven and met his great-grandfather and described what he looked like even though he had never seen him before as well as his almost sister who was miscarried
I'm sure there's logical explanations here but still an interesting story and worth watching
[url]http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42154263/ns/today-books/[/url]
^Source and Video[/QUOTE]
I bet this is what he saw:
[img]http://www.the-atheist.com/wp-content/themes/NewTA/God.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;28753792]Logical explanation to what?
This isn't a statue leaking oil (which turned out to be a scam created by a priest)
It's a kid who had a dream. Do you think what ever nightmarish fiends that are in your dreams are real?[/QUOTE]
I mean to why he knew what his great grandfather looked like and everything
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;28753882]I mean to why he knew what his great grandfather looked like and everything[/QUOTE]
Pretty good chance they had pictures of him around the house.
[QUOTE=Rediscover;28753784]this is reallly late.[/QUOTE]
Well I searched and it said it was posted up four days ago but maybe it's MSN that's just late
[editline]22nd March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;28753902]Pretty good chance they had pictures of him around the house.[/QUOTE]
What I was thinking plus wasn't actually a great description
"I think I met my great grandfather in heaven!"
"Really!? What did he look like?"
"Well, he was wrinkly, had grey/white hair, glasses, conformed to the standards of his time, and was a white male."
"That's a perfect description! You [b]MUST[/b] have actually met him!"
Also, late.
So a kid says he went to Heaven and writes a book that gets bought by 1.5 million people.
I am never going to get published.
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;28753768]Basically a boy years ago was very sick in the hospital and when his parents asked him about it, he said he went to heaven and met his great-grandfather and described what he looked like even though he had never seen him before as well as his almost sister who was miscarried
I'm sure there's logical explanations here but still an interesting story and worth watching
[url]http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42154263/ns/today-books/[/url]
^Source and Video[/QUOTE]
"He kind of looked like dad but he was older and had grey hair."
"Oh my god, this is a miracle, how did you know!"
[editline]22nd March 2011[/editline]
[quote=last or first;28753920]"i think i met my great grandfather in heaven!"
"really!? What did he look like?"
"well, he was wrinkly, had grey/white hair, glasses, conformed to the standards of his time, and was a white male."
"that's a perfect description! You [b]must[/b] have actually met him!"
also, late.[/quote]
damnit.
sounds legit
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;28753792]Logical explanation to what?
This isn't a statue leaking oil (which turned out to be a scam created by a priest)
It's a kid who had a dream. Do you think what ever nightmarish fiends that are in your dreams are real?[/QUOTE]
As real as you make them. :v:
Gah.
Using children as a weapon.
Honestly, who's going to try to tell little Billy his "personal experience" was a hallucination?
I mean, I do a lot of lucid dreaming stuff, so TBH while I'm sleeping is usually when I'm MOST incredulous of what I see. I don't understand why most people aren't like this, but instead, choose to LOWER their doubt when in an altered state.
may be bullshit
but you guys all have to keep an open mind, and there is something more then to what we see in the world at the moment.
[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;28753799]Logical explanation is
[img_thumb]http://www.drug-facts.org/templates/images/Morphine_sulfate2.jpg[/img_thumb]
It's one hell of a drug.[/QUOTE]
More like DMT is one hell of a drug.
What does a miscarried girl look like?
I will convert to whichever religion's afterlife is visited by somebody who's ignorant of the pre-existing religion.
Reminds me of the Penn and Teller episode on "The afterlife" there's a good 10 minutes on near death experiences and people apparently seeing heaven, they all pretty much described the same generic scenario of seeing their family, and lots of white, AKA stereotypical heaven.
Dude I was in heaven too, interview me and put me on tv ok
Going to be another Balloon Boy whose parents told him what to say
I do kinda beleive in something after death because they say energy is never lost, only goes into a different form (or something) what I and many others want to know is what that is.
People are willing to accept that there is more to life than the physical world.
People are not willing to accept the fantastical ways people will lie to you for money.
[QUOTE=ZapDing;28756047]I do kinda beleive in something after death because they say energy is never lost, only goes into a different form (or something) what I and many others want to know is what that is.[/QUOTE]
You are misinterpreting energy. Energy is kinda like heat (But not really), it's not pixie dust. After a person dies, the energy in their bodies (Accumulated heat, chemical bonds, ATP, etc etc.) just dissipates into... Waste heat, really.
Colton.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;28753932]So a kid says he went to Heaven and writes a book that gets bought by 1.5 million people.
I am never going to get published.[/QUOTE]
Then write a book saying you went to Heaven twice and get it bought by 3 million people.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;28756855]Then write a book saying you went to Heaven twice and get it bought by 3 million people.[/QUOTE]
Heaven is for Real II: The return of the Boy.
All this seeing people is bullshit.
It's just memories from subconsciousness.
Like if you forget something, in reality you still remember that but can't access it, hence why saying something similar usually brings the memory back.
He just saw a photo of him or something but forgot, then recalled it. Same for his unborn sister. He heard parents talking but didn't pay attention or forget, then woke up and remembered.
With drugs in a hospital it's no surprise.
Nothing really new or amazing. Deja vu is the same. You think you saw this before because you actually saw something very similar but then forgot.
I've seen something like this before.
You can really get a bunch of *dipshits to actually believe this as a fact. Hell, I could decide any old day to write about heaven in vivid detail, memorize my book word for word, then claim its true and get attention. I'm not saying he didn't see what he did, maybe he really did, maybe he's lying out his ear, maybe its all in his head, maybe he's psychotic, I can't prove whats what, but like I said, easy to get the blind to believe, and easy for anyone to claim if they're determined.
Dreams, and what you perceive in imagery are purely based on ones personality. A flashing light upon dying to me is just that, my death, and eyes going blind from it, the world darkening. To someone deeply religious? Clouds.
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[QUOTE=J!NX;28757419][QUOTE=Magistrate;28757161]"dip shits?"
lol it's just people who want to be happy that good stuff will happen to them when they die[/QUOTE]
Ok, semi-religious who are very respectable and reasonable, to psycho's who would through this into an argument and pull some bullshit out their ass like this is 100% factual proof.
Dip-shits was a bad term.[/QUOTE]
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