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I was awaken several nights ago, from a dream, with a warning to "watch out for 12/11". During my life, I've had dozens of premonitions. One of the first occurred when I was a just a kid, and ignoring it caused me to learn a VERY painful and scary lesson. Later in life, a premonition and my actions because of it likely saved my life and the life of my small family. All of my premonitions have occurred while fully awake. I can not remember any significant insights I've "received" from a dream. But this one seems very different. I...

Please forgive the vanity post, BUT I just had a terrible thought....I just heard that the hijacked airliner has landed in of all places, Aftganistan.... Is that not the home turf of Osama Bin Laden?? Remember the movie a few years back where terrorists hijacked a 747 with the intentions of crashing it into New York city or some other big city??? If Bin Laden wanted to creatate a major catastrophe, that would surely do it. I suppose the military could shoot it out of the sky, but how do they insure where it is going to land, or that...

Do some of us avoid tragedy by foreseeing it? Some scientists nowbelieve that the brain really CAN predict events before they happen Professor Dick Bierman sits hunched over his computer in a darkened room. The gentle whirring of machinery can be heard faintly in the background. He smiles and presses a grubby-looking red button. In the next room, a patient slips slowly inside a hospital brain scanner. If it wasn't for the strange smiles and grimaces that flicker across the woman's face, you could be forgiven for thinking this was just a normal health check. But this scanner is engaged...