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DNA
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Date: February 17, 2012 06:33AM
I read the responses about people being visited by dead people. If we were all still TBM, it wouldn’t have surprised me at all, and it would be expected due to the belief system. Whatever happened would be spun through a Mormon mindset and the answer would come out to backup what was believed.
But now that most are no longer believers, I was shocked. How do people still keep beliefs in an afterlife where their loved ones can come and go and visit? Did the LDS church get that part right, but the rest was wrong? Just curious how that all fits now?
I’m not trying to make people defensive, or change their beliefs about their dead loved ones, I just assumed that such beliefs would have changed once they no longer believed, and a new meaning would have been made to explain it. Perhaps imagination, wish fulfillment by the unconscious mind, etc.
If the dead are still around after they die, and if they contain some sort of an intelligence that makes them able to communicate with humans, that would have me searching for who rules them. Or perhaps I suppose they govern themselves and can do as they wish unrestrained. But then if that is the case, why don’t they keep coming around. Why would they tire of the relationship?
A lot of questions came up in my mind when reading that thread. If it makes you defensive, it wasn’t meant to put you on the spot. If you’re open to exploring the belief, some further explanation would be great.