Last Night

We had a really weird night last night.

Now, before I start I just want to remind you that I like to keep an open mind, whilst at the same time, looking for the truth, which I know can sometimes be stranger than fiction....

Ghosts.

I'm  not saying I believe in ghosts and I'm sure theres many of you out there that have never had a ghostly inexplicable, unexplainable encounter and will quite easily say " there are no such thing as ghosts" but I have experienced many strange happenings in my time, quite a lot in my childhood, but also in recent years.
I have also heard very interesting stories form very intelligent, down to earth people that I would seriously doubt they made it up or were mistaken.

OK, for a bit of background, I've lived in my house for 6 years now, and I've been places before where I've felt uneasy being there, my mums house where I grew up being one of them, and other places where I've felt perfectly fine. The house I'm in at the moment seems, on the most part, completely fine, BUT, there have been a few strange things happen that I find hard to explain.

There's been a couple of times, a few years ago now, that when coming into the house after being out for a while, just as I step in through the door, I've heard voices coming from upstairs. The first time I heard it, they sounded like a childs voice, that cut off all of a sudden. The second time, it was a mans voice, and I was so convinced it's voice that I thought it was my partner back home early for some reason, I went upstairs to talk to him, and there's no-one there.

That was about 3-4 years ago. Two weeks ago, my mum was with me, we came through the front door, and I didn't hear anything but my mum said "who's that upstairs? is David home?", we had a look round, no-one there, my mum was so convinced she started to think it might've been an intruder and they might've got up into the loft or something! She was quite freaked out about it!

About 4 nights ago, my oldest daughter calls down from her room saying that she was scared and felt that there was someone in the room. remembering all the times that I used to get scared in my room when I was little, I had a proper look around, let her have the light on, told her not to worry, that we're all here, close by, she's safe, and she was ok.

2 nights ago, my oldest is saying again that she's scared, and even with the light on, she's still unhappy about being in there, so she went and slept in her brothers room, leaving her baby sister in there alone.

OK, Last night......my oldest slept in her brothers room again, she didn't even bother going into her room at all. When we had just gone to bed at around midnight, all the children where asleep,  I heard a noise which sounded just like when a child is standing up in the cot and yanking the side around, or jumping up and down in the cot, my 2 year old was asleep, i had just checked in on her before getting into bed. Then about 30 seconds after the sound stopped, she started crying. I went in to see her and she was still lying down with her arm around her favorite toy, I settled her, and she went back to sleep.
I thought it was REALLY weird, but fell asleep anyway.

THEN.....I was woken by my son, crying, calling me in, I had just been having a bad dream, when I got to him he said that he'd had a bad dream too, about the house being lifted up and shaken!!!
Trying not to get freaked out and trying to forget about all the stories about poltergeists I'd heard, I settled my son back to sleep, I went downstairs to the toilet, keeping calm, keeping calm, and went back to bed.
In the morning my partner said he was also woken by a bad dream, the house was making a weird noise in his dream, it woke him and it took a minute or two for him to realise where he was.

WEIRD OR WHAT!?!

next time I'll tell you some other strange things I've encountered........

  

Helen's theory of Intentionism ;)

I was going to reply to Keith's comments regarding my last post but it was such a long reply, I thought I'd put it as a whole new post!

Before I go on I have to mention, I haven't set this up properly yet, I haven't done the introduction for it but what it will say is that this is my blog where I just talk about MY OPINION on things, and thoughts and feelings. I'm not preaching to anyone, you don't have to read it, I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, I expect people to do their own research and make up their own mind about things. And I'm not saying that my opinions are the way it is because thats being arrogant, they are just my opinions or theories and everyone is entitled to their own opinions of course.

First I do want to reply to Keiths comment about me consuming milk when I've said I'm not eating meat because of animal cruelty - I'm not a vegan, whether I will be in the future I don't know, but for now I'm not. I would buy raw milk if I could because the small farms that produce raw milk do treat the cows with respect.
In an ideal world I dont see anything wrong, if you (like my grandad did years ago) bought a cow that had just calved (with the calf as well) and looked after both of them and milked the cow to use the milk as well....I really don't see a problem there. As it is, I try and get the best milk I can afford, I have 3 young children, and at the moment can't handle the extra stress that being a vegan will create.

I don't want to get into a vegan debate, its like a religous debate, it's pointless. OBVIOUSLY people have different beliefs and thats up to them, animal cruelty is wrong, but eating meat isn't wrong (ask any tiger) some humans choose not to consume any animal product, that doesn't mean that ALL humans shouldn't eat animal products, and I think it's wrong to force a belief on someone else. For humans it's a choice, believe me, if I was left to find my own food in a survival situation, I would catch and animal and eat it, to supplement the foraging.

OK, back to the whole evolution thing!
 
I have read and heard about Darwins theory of evolution, I've never just accepted a persons view as the truth. I question everything, thats just the way I am I suppose, I'm interested in the truth,`and I gather information from all sources, I keep an open mind and I like to mull things over and decide for myself.
There are some theories that I like, that probably don't have very much evidence to support them, doesn't mean I BELIEVE it, it's just that I like the idea and could see how it could be true, but without proper evidence, all it is, is a THEORY. One of the theories I like is that thousands of years ago, Aliens came to the earth and bred with primitive human type creature to create us! I know there's no real evidence to support this, but it would certainly explain a lot! I  also like the theory that there are other beings in this universe, again, there isn't much evidence (not for sure, proper evidence) for this, but it doesn't make sense that we would be the only creatures in this massive universe.

I understand Darwins theory, but I'm not going to think, "ok, yep, thats sounds about right, I'm going to believe that and ignore everything else" because that would be silly to not allow any other evidence to make me think differently. To me, Darwins theory is missing something. I think theres more to it than just randomness and chance, I think nature has it more sussed than that, I think Darwins theory is way too wasteful of resources, and it doesn't explain a whole loads of stuff.
I do believe that life evolves, people evolve, and I believe that things evolve because of the INTENT to evolve. If there was no intent, we would all still be crawling around on the floor, in fact, we would all be still little amoebas floating around in the sea. Something DRIVES the evolution, everything would stay the same if there was no intent. I truly believe that energy follows thought and the mind is a very powerful thing, the Giraffe has a long neck because it had to keep reaching higher to eat it's favorite leaves, that wasn't just random chance, it was the INTENT that created the long neck, it adapted to it's surroundings, like many many, probably all ceatures did/are doing.

Surely, theories can evolve too.....




I need to go and do stuff now, but I'll try and finish this off later.

FOOD

I know some people reading this are going to think this is silly, and it may sound silly but give me a reason why it isn't true and I'll have another think ;)

I have recently-2 months ago- become 'mostly vegetarian' I say mostly because I go at least a week or two without eating any meat and then I might have a bit of fish or something, then not eat meat at all for a week or two again.
But a few weeks ago I was in a bit of an online discussion, well, sort of a discussion, one person was being a bit ridiculous, I was being attacked by a vegan, for saying that quality raw milk was much better for you than horrible pasturised milk, and this persons view was that cow's milk was only intended to feed a calf, so therefore humans shouldn't consume it at all.

Well, I just wanted to state my opinion about food.

I believe that ALL life is equal. ALLLLL life, animal, vegetable, it doesn't matter, all life is equal. To me, being intellectually (or appearing to be) superior does not mean you have more rights than less intelliegent lifeforms.
Animals aren't BETTER than plants. Just because they move around and some of them look cute and furry, doesn't make them better.
All life is trying to survive and reproduce. ALLLLLL life.
That carrot that you ate was trying to grow some flowers that would end up spreading it's seeds, before it got pulled up out of the ground, chopped up and eaten.
Evidence shows that plants actually react in a distressed way when they get damaged, some even send a warning signal to other nearby plants when they are being attacked.
How does a Bee Orchid know what a female bee looks like in order to attract a male bee? And it must've done some kind of conscious decision making to change itself to look like a bee. The Dead Horse Arum made the decision and had the knowledge to look and smell like rotting flesh to attract flies. If you watch plants growing with time lapse photography, they are just like animlas, except they are rooted to the spot.
And of course, plants are every bit as important as animals, if not more important.
Surely that makes plants just as equal to animals, right?

Cows milk may not have been specifically designed for humans to eat it, but neither was ANYTHING!!(except fruit! - well not JUST humans)
Carrots and brocolli weren't designed to be eaten, what makes it OK to eat vegetables, but not animals??
To me there is no difference. They are both equal lifeforms.
I even feel sorry for pot plants. They're stuck in a pot with not enough room to spread their roots properly!

I also believe in Nature. Nature has designed everything perfectly and this is what happens.....

LIFE CONSUMES LIFE TO LIVE.

Whether it's an animal eating vegetable, or animal eating animal, or even vegetable eating animal (venus fly trap, pitcher plant etc..) or EVEN vegetable eating vegetable (mistletoe being just one example) ALLL life has to consume something that is alive or has been alive at some point.

Apart from fruit, NOTHING has been specifically designed to be eaten. And all life is Equal.

I've chosen to stop eating meat most of the time because of the way animals are treated in intensive farming.

Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with vegans at all, but what I do disagree with, is anyone saying that it's WRONG to eat meat. Because it ISN'T wrong. How can nature be wrong about such a massively important thing?? Some creatures are herbivores, some are carnivores, some are omnivores, it's all ok, whatever is right for you is right. Humans are omnivores, yes, we can live as vegans, if it's done properly and works for that individual, but but humans are still omnivores and that's just the way it is, it's perfectly fine for us to eat meat.  - but it's totally NOT fine to torture and neglect, or to treat animals with total and utter disrespect like they do :(