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I shall just say one thing to Sophie over this matter. She may have heard of the serenity prayer or she may not. I think it is applicable to her situation. Even if she knows it there is no harm in repeating it.

"God grand me the serenity to accept the things we cannot change
The courage to change the things we can
And the wisdom to know the difference"

The last line is the most important one.

There is a more frivolous nursery rhyme which says much the same thing. I don't give this rhyme to trivialise her tragedy. However it may be helpful and I believe it is time for her to allow a little frivolity into her life for a change. She has had too much of the other stuff.

Here it is.

"For every ailment under the sun
There is a remedy or there is none
If there be one try to find it
If there be none never mind it"

I wish her well and I am sure everyone else here does.

Craig Browning wrote:I so love folks that bring a knife to a gun fight...

There's no fight here bud, just a discussion.

Craig Browning wrote:The "cynically dependent" can find grounds to dispel any and all things that they don't WANT TO BELIEVE IN OR ACCEPT.

...Skeptics... an honest skeptic, leaves the door ajar and is willing to believe or at minimum, allow for plausibility

Craig Browning wrote:Mine is not to argue or "debate" this point. I KNOW of the validity of said tradition...

That sounds a tad "cynically dependent". Are you sure that you're 'leaving the door ajar'?

Craig Browning wrote:Gen. George S. Patton is one of numerous "leaders" and "genius" types that have been known for their outward belief in Past Lives

Ah, right. That'll be a fallacy of defective induction then (argument from authority).

Craig Browning wrote:Sometimes, given a situation and personal experience around it, one simply MUST believe.

I think you need to educate yourself as to the difference between an anecdote and evidence.

Craig Browning wrote:What we do know is that there are thousands of accounts that support past-life memory...

Still wating on that link...

Mandrake wrote:Am I right in thinking we've reached a logical end point here?

God, yes. Pages and pages ago!

Proof by verbosity is a logical fallacy.

OK and thank you to everyone for their input.