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Past lives?

Sax

11:12 / 22.09.02

Spent the weekend with some friends who have two kids, one almost two and one about three-and-a-half. The older one, the girl, is at a nursery/playgroup thing, and shocked staff when she told them last week: "My mum's dead."

They knew this wasn't the case at all, and when my friend went to pick up his daughter, he was asked if she "had an obsession with death".

He had to explain that he was Daddy and his wife was Mummy, but their daughter also talked about Mum and Dad quite a lot. Mum had indeed died while Dad was a doctor called Charles. She said they lived in a house, which was number 73, and she had been sent away to school.

Quite bizarre. This morning I heard her telling Daddy that Dad "was a fish-fighter", which she wouldn't elaborate on.

Healthy imagination or something... more?

You decide!

Rollo Kim, on location

12:02 / 22.09.02

Yeah it's weird - this was always something I've never been a believer in, but it's becoming freakily common amongst kids these days. There's a ton of weird stuff going on.

http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=1740

(I won't humiliate myself by attempting the code)

Just recently I keep dreaming that it's war time (WWII), I'm either seeing and feeling bombs going off in the distance, or being stalked by a German officer, and I'm a lass.

jUne, a sunshiny month

08:16 / 23.09.02

now this is some interesting post. do you see the lil girl, Sax ? is she act like "regular" kid, beside this ?

jUne, a sunshiny month

08:33 / 23.09.02

i mean (no offense to the child, of course), my mother is working as a taking care person for child who got some problems with their parents, or orphans, etc... (that's the main reason why there at least 10 plates everyday at her home, without including my bros and sis)
once she got a lil boy at home, we got him for 3 years, he went through physical and sexual abuse and stuff from (sit down) his family but ALSO the people supposed to take care of him... hard to not be sick, uh, and the child, of course, from his 5 or 6 years old, was really twisted inside. and sometimes, he was speaking of his many, many others mum, dad, grandpa or something.
working with the people responsible for an eventual better health for him, the descriptions he done and who he refered to were really realistic, but... untrue in the way that it doesn't reflect any of the people who crossed his life. pretty disturbing for me, a guy who's scared of bad x-files episodes...

Mourne Kransky

14:37 / 23.09.02

Would pass unremarked upon in the Hindu and Buddhist parts of the world, of course. Just Oh hello Grandma, back again? You must have had good karma to have only two legs this time around too.

Children do say the funniest things, as Michael Barrymore would say, though. I was taken to an educational psychologist by my anxious parents because I took my pet seal, Ba' Heid, everywhere with me for several years, whom nobody but me could see. Then I became convinced, beyond recourse to reason, that I was really Jewish.

And I grew up to be entirely normal in every way, rather dull and unimaginative by comparison.

Tryphena Absent

15:14 / 23.09.02

Looking at this psycho-analytically (can I even use that phrase) this could be put down to the same thing as children wishing to be sent to boarding school or imagining that they were orphans. It's quite common for kids to imagine themselves in situations rather different from their own. I'd have to ask my parents to explain the technical term and a little bit more about it but I'm sure that Freud had a lot to say about alienating yourself from you home life.

Having said that I'd love to believe in past lives but I just have no idea of any for myself and so I can't.

Spatula Clarke

16:45 / 23.09.02

Virtually impossible to do, I realise, but if any more detail comes up you might want to try and find out if her story matches up with any records.

'Fish-fighter' sounds very odd. Wonder what it could be, if not just something imagined?

Spatula Clarke

17:59 / 23.09.02

'Fish-fighter' seems to be a term given to either a boat or a type of rod. Found one reference to a 'fish-fighter' as a person here:

To build a rod that would be fishable, that would give the fisherman authority both as caster and as a fish fighter. That would work at distances close up as well as at a great distance.

So there you go. You've got a family unit living at 73 somewhere, the father in which is a Dr Charles Something, possibly a keen fisherman, the mother's dead and the daughter is in some kind of boarding school. Now you need some clues as to the date and geographical position.

w1rebaby

18:44 / 23.09.02

Either that, or it's a corruption of fishfinger, possibly brought on by the "dad(dy) or chips?" conundrum.

Spatula Clarke

19:42 / 23.09.02

Or fist fighter, in which case you're looking for a doctor who was moonlighting as a bare-knuckle boxer.

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