What is the most awe inspiring natural phenomenon you have ever witnessed? and how did it affect you?
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2-way tie. \n\nOne time I was on the shore of Lake Superior when a seiche was occurring, and the water quickly receded, exposing a half mile of lake bottom. We walked out in it (this area was not deep even normally) and just as quickly the water rushed back in, accompanied by a heavy rainshower and rainbow.\n\nYou can't go wrong with the northern lights. I have no words to accurately convey a good display, curtains of light seething and flowing, blinking and pulsating as it flows all around you.\n\nI don't know about particular emotional effects. I think all nature is amazing.
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The coolest thing ever happened!!
995943
Here is one of the miracles that God has blessed me with!   One Morning, I was making breakfast (frying bacon), I have a problem with my nerves so my hands were shaking that day.\nI was flipping the bacon, and for some odd reason I had lifted the pan and the bacon grease had spilled all over my right hand! That is the hand that I alway use, I'm right handed! So like a dummy I wraped it, by wrapping it I locked the heat in and it made the burn worse! I didn't know that was the wrong thing to do, I DO NOW!!! I went to the emergency room, I had a blister that was about 6 inches tall and as fat as can be, I had to wait in the waiting room, while I was waiting a lady came over to me looked at my hand and ask me what had happened?  So I showed her my burn, and told her how it had happened,\nShe layed her hand above the blister and prayed for my hand to  heal. A few minuets later I was called. My blister had busted while I was waiting. When I had went in to see the Doctor, he removed the blister and told me that I have a third degree burn! I was so afraid because this was my right hand, the hand that I use for everthing! I had to go and have a skin graft done! When I went to get the skin graft there was no one in the office,(I thought that was strange) even at lunch time they have someone watching the desk! I wasn't going to wait around until they came back so I went home. I decided that I would call them and reschule! So I went home and did exactly that. As the days went by I noticed that the burning pain was not as bad as it was, and that my burn was healing! It has been over a year now and the burn is totally healed, all that I have is a very slight scar that is red, and I never loss the use of my hand. That is a true& honest miracle from God! And I Thank him for all of his Beautiful Miracles that he blesses me with each & every day!!!\nThis is to the first person that answered your question.\nGod does not hate any one! He loves and watches over us all!\nIn order for you to see  God's miracles you have to have complete love & faith in him! God has blessed you with many miracles, just waking up each morning is a miracle! \nGod Bless You!!!
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Ball lightning?  Was it anything like this:\n\nhttp://www.metacafe.com/watch/131601/ufo_in_xinjiang_of_china/\n\nMe and a friend saw something like this back in February.  My friend was staring directly out the window, thinking about Asian chicks, when it popped out of the clouds right in front of his eyes.  It was a bright ball, had whispy filaments all over it, and when it "popped" it went out with a big double-strobe-flash.  I saw it out of the corner of my eye and when I turned to focus on it, it flashed out and filled the car with a bright, blue light.  It was strong enough to make my friend go "AaaAarGghhH!"\n\nIf you want to get crazy with it, I think this is what our ancient ancestors meant when they said the stars would fall from the Heavens.  Imagine a whole lot of ball lightning raining down on your city.  That'd be some shit to see right there.  Read some of my questions and best answers.
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I have have many experiences like this, it's difficult to focus on one or two. I really wish I had more time to think about these things in the midst of a busy life, so thank you for asking this question.\n\nI had a near death experience, which made me more sure that there is something there after death. I saw a light, and found myself travelling towards it, and could hear the voices of loved ones who had died. Just as I seemed to arrive at a beautiful garden, it was as if I started travelling rapidly back again to the here and now - it wasn't my time yet.\n\nMeditation is a spiritual experience for me. So it prayer, although I don't belong to any organised religious group. And sometimes just walking in a beautiful place, or even sitting for a few minutes in a sunny garden. Or looking into the eyes of someone you love. Or sometimes a dream will take you to a spiritual place.I believe these are all spiritual experiences and they are available to us all, whenever we are open to them.
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I have beein inside the end of the rainbow on one occasion, and no it was not in my drug experimental phase of young life. \nWe were camping and ti rained and there was a rainbow and it wasover the area of a camp ground we were staying at for a vacation. \nI even took pictures of the way everything was colored. It was so strange and really not very pretty at all. All kind of golden in color and then another and another and  if we had not figured it out really quickly I would have sworn we were in some kind of alien tractor beam or some such stuff. But luckily my Aunt was quick on the uptake and after she figured it out we all just stared at it. It did not last long at all, but the camera was handy and she took pics of it while it lasted.\n\nStrange but true facts from the lower regions of Arkansas, where\neven Big Foot likes to call it home! LOL!
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I had a close encounter many years ago, when I was a boy scout and having field camp in school. It happen to be a thunderstorm and I was walking in an open field with an unbrella when I felt my hairs standing on end. Next thing I knew, lightning struck a metal fence some 15 feet away. I was shocked by this, but felt nothing and continued my way to the nearest shelter!\nSo the next time I feel a build up of static electricity around me, I am going to run into the nearest building I can find. Especially on a rainy day.
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wow ive done a lot of crazy things...but prolly the most crazy is base jumping in colorado...nothing like a base jump to scare the shit outta you...but then there was the time i was paddling in a raft w/ my friends in lake ontario...and a barge went by and almost flipped us and my dumbass friend dropped the paddle, so we wer stuck in the middle of lake ontario with 3 ham sandwiches for 7 hours...wen we wer finall picked up...we had drifted almost 17 miles!!! it was so far because we had been paddling w/ our hands in the direction we thought was right...but was the total opposite way...that was pretty crazy...
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see such kind of things should be keept to urself.people who r fortunate enough to see this and even claimed it the world hase made them mad.the person who is very lucky can see that.never mention this to any one.there r some things which have to be discovered in this world.some thing special is going to happen in ur life.these things exist but very few people have encountered one.they dont revel themselfs because this is not the time to do so.\n                                    blessed be.\nand good luck.
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Interesting.  I remember sitting outside late at night with a girlfriend.  It was going to storm, and there were already flashes of lightning in the clouds.  We were on the frontal boundary, so the winds were rocking us back and forth while the flashes in the sky lit up our surroundings.  I knew that the raw forces of nature were so much more powerful than I was, yet I somehow felt strangely magnified within them.  For a moment I was in tune with nature.  I loved that time and place with everything I had.  Then, it was gone with the rain.  \nSo, yes, I have felt that feeling.  I relive it sometimes in my memory of a night long gone.
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I believe strongly in miracles, and have witnessed many of them.  One that stands out the most happened on Christmas night 1998.  I was travelling back from seeing family when I came upon a girl in the road who had wiped out her car for no apparent reason.  The road was clear, but she spun around and deflated both rear tires with her bumper against the concrete bridge.  I was going to drop her at the next town and continue on my way, but something made me stay and help more.  I bought a sledge hammer and beat out her bumper, aired her tires up, and folowed her the rest of her journey at 40 miles an hour.  I got home at 4 am, and had to be at work at 10am.  She made it safely to her destination.  The next day at work, someone pointed out a wreck that happened in an area I would have been in, and at the exact time and place I that I would have been in, had I not stopped to help her.  The accident I avoided was a car that jumped the median and landed in the front seat of an SUV, killing a young professional family and their newborn.  I battled with this for some time.\nI would have given my life to save that family, but God had other plans for them.\nWe stay in touch and to this day and call each other our Christmas Angel.
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A kinder made me laugh so hard, my tummy hurts! \n\nOn a more serious note, I have felt very intensely in tune with nature before. On a seperate incident have felt at one with the universe...I guess you could say I saw a vision of the universe. Sort of an epiphany after thinking a lot on how we are all connected and the oneness of life.\n\nEdit: I just saw that a kinder is snoopy! I somehow saw him as venus trap before, mouth open...bottom jaw to the right...that was a bit of an epiphany! lol
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to good to be true....something is too beautiful to be real,it is almost like a miracle...impossible... : (
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A great moment I had in Croatia lst year with a lss from Galway.\n We saw in the sunrise whilst sitting on some cannons overlooking the harbour.\n\n  .  Special moment hard to fully describe.
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cool and breathtaking
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=I went on vacation and was in the Blue Ridge Mt's.  It was breath taking.  I have never felt closer to God or Nature before.
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Northern Lights. It was breathtaking.