Posted on 08/29/2009 12:07:45 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
It sounds totally beyond belief. But read the tantalising evidence from this boy's family and you may start to wonder...
The agonised screams pierced the air. 'Plane on fire! Airplane crash.' In the dark, a two-year-old boy was just visible, writhing on his bed in the grip of horror. 'He was lying there on his back, kicking and clawing at the covers like he was trying to kick his way out of a coffin,' remembers the boy's father.
'I thought, this looks like The Exorcist. I half expected his head to spin around like that little girl in the movie. But then I heard what James was saying.'
Over and over again, the tiny child screamed: 'Plane on fire! Little man can't get out.'
For his shocked parents, these nightly scenes were traumatic.
For experts, they were baffling.
As the nightmares became more terrifying, the child started screaming the name of the 'little man' who couldn't get out of the plane. It was James - like his own name. He also talked in his dreams of 'Jack Larsen', 'Natoma' and 'Corsair'.
James Leininger's father, Bruce, was flummoxed. In a desperate attempt to find an answer to his son's troubled nights, he embarked on an obsessive three-year research project, armed only with the outbursts and names his son had been shouting in his disturbed sleep.
What he discovered astonished and perplexed him, and drove him to an extraordinary conclusion.
A lifelong Christian, it was not the answer he had sought for his son's behaviour. But he came to believe James was the reincarnation of a World War II fighter pilot; a man who had been shot down in his plane and struggled to escape as it caught fire; a hero.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I was a nymphomaniac in a previous life.
God is outside time. Although we may frustrate His plan, He already knew before time began that we would do so, and He planned for it. We still have free will, because that enables us to freely choose to love Him (which is what He desires). God allows evil to happen, as a result of the free choices of men and angels, so that greater good may come from it. I’m not sure if that answers all your points.
I saw that episode. There's lots of bad juju in this red Georgia clay.
I have another story..
My Mom was dying and only had a few more days to live..
Do you ever have that feeling in the morning, when it’s almost time to wake up and you feel that your awake but
you have not opened your eyes yet?? Well I felt that I was awake anyway I saw the Blessed Mother at the end of my bed, I’ve never seen her before or since then. But the next day my mother passed. I was outside sitting on a bench and at
the end of the grass area was a statue of blessed mother. As I am looking at statue a relative comes out and said it’s almost time, better hurry back in...
If an entity know ahead of time what we are going to do, then there is no real free will, and more importantly, no need for the “test”, because the results would already be known.
You talk chickens, I talk people, Strawman. Adress the Premis arguement I have given you enough hints.
God is not before time, He is outside of time. Knowing that someone will act a particular way does not actually diminish free will. Just because something seems to be a paradox does not make it untrue. As far as the “need”, God wants our souls to grow toward perfection on earth. Now He could fake it, and end up with a Heaven full of fake people, but God is not a faker.
I was stationed at Fort Lewis out side of Tacoma Washington. My son was in 1st or 2nd grade. During the summer one of his little school buddies was hit by a garbage truck. His mother was a strong christian. The boy was intubated and in the ICU on a ventilator. His Doctor was an atheist. The Doctor said the boy was brain dead and to badly damaged to ever recover and he should be disconnected from the ventilator. The mother prayed with her pastor and her pastor told her when she felt OK to go ahead and disconnect the ventilator and leave it in God’s hands. The mother felt a peace about removing the ventilator.. The Long story short the boy returned to school in the fall healthy. He told of meeting Jesus and Jesus telling him he had some things for him to do. The boys Doctor was shaken!
My Uncle told this story to me in 1954, before any books were written about it and before I had ever heard of "near death experiences" I was 12 years old .
My Uncle was a Captain of Marines just before the start of WWII, 1941, March and stationed in the Philippines. He had malaria and was dying in the hosp. They took him into a room the patients called "the dying room" because when you went in you didn't come out. All his buddies turned their heads away when he was carried in because they knew he wasn't coming our alive. He died, went through the tunnel and into the light, saw all his dead relatives and another person who seemed to be above everyone else and who told him, "you have to go back, you can't be here yet".
He opened his eyes in the dying room, the doctor was amazed at his recovery and they put him back into the regular ward, he started to go down hill again. They took him back into the dying room again, where he again died. He saw the same dead relatives(including his mother and father, my grandparents whom I never met)and the same person who once again told him he had to go back. He again opened his eyes in the dying room after being dead for about 15 minutes. The doctor was again amazed, especially when he suffered no brain damage(which usually occurs after about 3 minutes with no oxygen), took him back out to the regular ward where he recovered enough they sent him back to the states and medically discharged him.
He finally died at age 83 with cancer.
He swore to his dying day this happened, plus he had physic abilities after this experience and was a God fearing man until he died.
A while back, they had an interview with a Doctor on C2C.
A cardiac surgeon who had written a book about things.. he started out very, very skeptical.
Eventually, he had to do a complete 180 and said “Hey, there’s somethin going on here we don’t understand...”
I mean he had literally held a persons heart in his hands while the person died, so he’s pretty close. And I gather fairly renowned as an MD.
What do you mean? I cited an example right there where chicken twinning was induced artificially.
It isn’t much of a biological leap to jump from twinning chickens to twinning humans, except for government legislation that prevent such experiments, through purely legal, and not scientific or technical, barriers. If you think otherwise, please detail the biological hurdles that prevent such experiments from succeeding.
You have failed repeatedly in your attempts to show the “strawman” part of the argument.
The results are known to the entity, but not to us (until after we have made the choice) We either get the A or the F, but we do need the test...
I don’t doubt that story in any way... like I told of what happened to me before, this story sounds very familiar.
I am grateful the boy is still alive and kicking :)
Bikk
The entity knows the results beforehand, thus invalidating the need for the test. After all, the entity relies on the test to perform the “sorting”, doesn’t it? Why bother about testing, when the outcome is already known?
Or ... he watched a movie.
I do hope they keep up the payments to the church for their indulgences.
> My hunch is that this little lad’s mother was probably
> dabbling in some occult practices - whether fortune
> telling or what-have-you.
Good hunch.
Have you seen the movie “Unidentified”?
http://www.christianfilms.com/unidentifieddvd.htm
I highly recommend it.
Suppose you know that a kid would learn algebra if you taught him. Why teach him? Why administer tests? Why give a final grade?
Exactly. It is because you don't know if the kid can learn algebra, that you need to teach him, and test him.
If you knew beforehand whether the kid has passed the test or not, you wouldn't need to test him. Because you already know the result. So, why would humans have to be tested, if the testing entity already knows the results? Is the testing entity insecure of its own infallibility?
I’m usually pretty skeptical about this kind of stuff and I admit it requires a lot of trust in the parents’ accounts of the story. But still, pretty neat. Thanks for posting.
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