What can we learn from Derek Acorah?
The Sun newspaper reported today that self-proclaimed psychic, Derek Acorah, had said that missing child Madeline McCann was dead.
Archie Weeks is my hero
I’m a big sister. My brother was born on Bonfire Night in ’91 when I was four years old and I can remember visiting him and my mum in hospital on the day he was born. I was totally jealous of him and snubbed him and sat by the hospital window watching the fireworks instead. Yet secretly I was overjoyed that I had a brother and I can remember throughout the first years of his life assisting my mum with looking after him (though I was probably more of a hindrance than a help, truth be told.)
Doubt & death
When I believed in ghosts I would think of the deceased as being above me, looking down upon us all. I would think I could speak to them and they’d hear me and I find it a little sad that I can no longer talk to the room and sincerely believe that they’ll know what I’m saying since they no longer exist except within memories. It’s why I find it difficult to stand at a grave and talk to the deceased as though their slowly vanishing remains beneath the ground will know what I am saying.
It’s ok, I know I’m horrid
*update* This blog post is being linked to around the web by people trying to misinterpret what it is I have written. A while ago I wrote my thoughts about how people hold people who identify as ‘skeptics’ accountable for their behaviour and how it might not be fair due to unfair expectations. As I wrote critically about another blogger, she and her friends objected to what I had said and largely made their objections personal. As a result I wrote a post called ’young, female and vocal‘, but since then I have had it explained to me that people abuse me because I’m a horrible person – and not because I’m young, female and vocal despite the fact that ageist and gendered language was being used against me by those concerned.
I support…
