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I heard God
#21
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(September 7, 2008 at 7:10 am)Darwinian Wrote: Nope.. It's 42..

Then I give up (for now). It was exactly half your number 21 + 21 = 42.
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#22
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I was wondering when you would get that.

That's a pattern loving mind for you Wink
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#23
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I never was very good at patterns my self ... could pass uni-maths but getting my head around patterns was not one of my strong points.
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#24
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Something to bear in mind with predictions or prophesies is our tendancies to take any match that is slightly close as a "hit".

For example, the voice said "how would you like to be stabbed..." So for me, the ideal fit would have been YOU being stabbed, not the other guy, but you took this other guy's experience to be the fulfillment.

What if you had not met the guy that day. How many days could pass before you met someone who had been stabbed and still take it to be a fulfillment of what the voice said?

What if the guy you met had been cut on the hand by a crazy man years ago, would you still have taken that as a positive hit?

See what I'm getting at is there is a vast, vast array of circumstances, combined with broad timeframes that could make a hit and you'd accept any one of them.

We remember the hits and forget the misses. If your voice tells you something, like this word "wolton" for example, and nothing ever comes of it, would you take that as a sign that the voice is just random thoughts that bear no relation to anything, or will you forget the "miss" and continue to remember the hits, that could be fulfilled from any of these vast array of possibilities.
'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? Jer 8:8
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
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#25
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What I don't get is why no atheists seem to hear these voices. Surely they are the people God would most want on his side?
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#26
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(September 7, 2008 at 10:06 am)Tiberius Wrote: What I don't get is why no atheists seem to hear these voices. Surely they are the people God would most want on his side?

I'm sure some atheists do hear these voices. Except, instead of assuming it is god, or demons, they realise that their mind is messing them about and they go see a doctor and get some meds to get it under control.
'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? Jer 8:8
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
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#27
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Heard voices? Never happened to me. The only voice I hear in my head is my own.

How comes these voices only happen to religious people? hmm?

Well I use logic and reason, not superstition.

If I heard voices in my head I'd go see a doctor. Which is something I'd suggest those who "assume" to hear voices do....See a doctor!

Even IF I heard voices other than my own, This still wouldn't convince me of anything, Apart from me assuming I've gone crazy.

I'll stick to rational thought thank you. I don't do superstition.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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#28
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Going to a doctor brings up an interesting point. What if the doctor is overly religious and instead of sending the patient to the psyche ward, tells them that they must interpret the voices as from God? I've heard of so many people who go on killing sprees because they hear the voice of God commanding it.
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#29
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Well all I know is those voices were very acurate. Too acurate to be a fluke of nature. As for being able to hear God on tap looks like he is not letting me. But it is always worth a try.
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#30
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So you know everything there is to know about nature then? You must if you deem something too accurate to be a fluke of nature. Go see a doctor the next time you hear voices.
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