(May 19, 2013 at 9:07 pm)Freedom Wrote: I had a chat with some Christians about prayer. I told them that prayer makes me wonder if I am creating God and the whole dialogue in my imagination. I asked them if they ever thought that maybe they are creating God in their imaginations.I think they're deluding themselves - I know, I'm an apostate of Christianity, and that's what I did. I didn't distinguish between my own thoughts and what can only be described as delusion. So, sometimes I would have a thought, and I'd often have the question if it was god telling me something. Now take that idea plus conditioning of thought processes and the result is cognitive dissonance in the thinking process; you basically impair your ability to distinguish between real thoughts and god-thought in your own fucking mind, because the god-thought is your own fucking thoughts to begin with.
They really don't believe they are doing that!
It's difficult to distinguish between one's imagination and the objectivity of a deity.
What do you think?
I've come across a cult that were experts in this, called the Tulpae Movement which exemplifies what I mean by cognitive dissonance in thought.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
