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Personal relationships with deities
RE: Personal relationships with deities
(October 16, 2015 at 1:10 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(October 16, 2015 at 1:00 pm)robvalue Wrote: Atlas: I don't understand your message to me, sorry.

You seem to be going to incredible lengths to convince me I'm in a relationship I know nothing about. I take it you have some evidence to back all this up?

There was a girl I used to know (27 or so years ago when I didn't look like an overcooked potato) who was telling everyone I was her girl friend. I found out about this after 6 months and was a bit confused as I had not seen her at all in all that time and had only been the uncooperative recipient of one of her kisses once. Is this relationship something like that. Gods pining over you and bragging to his friends.

It sounds like it! Minus the kiss. If I'm in a relationship with God, it's entirely one way. He's watching me, sending coded messages that look exactly like nothing at all, sending people to all tell me contradictory things about him, and having me as his slave. From my point of view, nothing is happening. That's not a relationship; that's having a demented stalker.
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RE: Personal relationships with deities
(October 16, 2015 at 1:20 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:
(October 16, 2015 at 1:14 pm)jenny1972 Wrote: insight that two people get at the same time that is the same , or not at the same time but when shared with the other is a perfect addition/clarification of the other persons insight .

This happens between people who know each other well very frequently.  With twins, all the time.  It's simply similar thought processes and language constructs.  C'mon, toaster guru, you can be more specific.

and then there are situations where the insight is not a result of knowing the other persons thoughts since the thoughts are not from the other person and are completely new and different ,and the insight they get is also not from them and also completely new . not a known characteristic of either person .
Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today   FSM Grin   Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you will join us And the world will be as one  - John Lennon

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also  - Mark Twain
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RE: Personal relationships with deities
How is this anything that your own mind couldn't produce?
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RE: Personal relationships with deities
(October 16, 2015 at 1:46 pm)jenny1972 Wrote:
(October 16, 2015 at 1:20 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: This happens between people who know each other well very frequently.  With twins, all the time.  It's simply similar thought processes and language constructs.  C'mon, toaster guru, you can be more specific.

and then there are situations where the insight is not a result of knowing the other persons thoughts since the thoughts are not from the other person and are completely new and different ,and the insight they get is also not from them and also completely new . not a known characteristic of either person .

See, that's easy enough to put to a test!  The test subjects just have to be recorded receiving these messages while placed in a situation where they cannot see or hear each other.  Simple.  So do it.  Record whatever puts you and this other person in the proper mental state in detail (so it can be replicated), set up the screens and rooms and video cameras, and you've got it!
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
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RE: Personal relationships with deities
(October 16, 2015 at 1:57 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:
(October 16, 2015 at 1:46 pm)jenny1972 Wrote: and then there are situations where the insight is not a result of knowing the other persons thoughts since the thoughts are not from the other person and are completely new and different ,and the insight they get is also not from them and also completely new . not a known characteristic of either person .

See, that's easy enough to put to a test!  The test subjects just have to be recorded receiving these messages while placed in a situation where they cannot see or hear each other.  Simple.  So do it.  Record whatever puts you and this other person in the proper mental state in detail (so it can be replicated), set up the screens and rooms and video cameras, and you've got it!

except that there is currently no machine that can record and identify and evaluate thoughts so i dont know how it could be tested with the current technology that exists . and what would the video cameras be used for exactly ?  Huh
Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today   FSM Grin   Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you will join us And the world will be as one  - John Lennon

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also  - Mark Twain
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RE: Personal relationships with deities
(October 16, 2015 at 3:12 pm)jenny1972 Wrote:
(October 16, 2015 at 1:57 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: See, that's easy enough to put to a test!  The test subjects just have to be recorded receiving these messages while placed in a situation where they cannot see or hear each other.  Simple.  So do it.  Record whatever puts you and this other person in the proper mental state in detail (so it can be replicated), set up the screens and rooms and video cameras, and you've got it!

except that there is currently no machine that can record and identify and evaluate thoughts so i dont know how it could be tested with the current technology that exists . and what would the video cameras be used for exactly ?  Huh

But you don't need a machine -- well, actually, you'd be using a Duke-University type study they use for psychics.   But two video cameras, separation of the subjects, and impartial assistants - that's all you need.   And we can even take vids on our cell phones now.  Once you prove two people, separately, got the same message at the same time, you're off and running!   You could easily get funding to use brain scan machines after that.  And that seriously, honestly, sounds like a fun study.  I'm not playing with you.  I'd help.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
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RE: Personal relationships with deities
(October 16, 2015 at 4:30 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:
(October 16, 2015 at 3:12 pm)jenny1972 Wrote: except that there is currently no machine that can record and identify and evaluate thoughts so i dont know how it could be tested with the current technology that exists . and what would the video cameras be used for exactly ?  Huh

But you don't need a machine -- well, actually, you'd be using a Duke-University type study they use for psychics.   But two video cameras, separation of the subjects, and impartial assistants - that's all you need.   And we can even take vids on our cell phones now.  Once you prove two people, separately, got the same message at the same time, you're off and running!   You could easily get funding to use brain scan machines after that.  And that seriously, honestly, sounds like a fun study.  I'm not playing with you.  I'd help.

psychics are able to control when the phenomenon takes place its controlled by their own ability not dependent on another , a psychic is able to control when it happens by their own mental effort . we could be there for a long time waiting since its not something the humans control . but if someone is interested in organizing and funding it and doesnt mind waiting for an uncertain amount of time id be interested in doing it .
Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today   FSM Grin   Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you will join us And the world will be as one  - John Lennon

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also  - Mark Twain
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RE: Personal relationships with deities
(October 16, 2015 at 1:14 pm)jenny1972 Wrote:
(October 15, 2015 at 9:52 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: Really? Elaborate.

insight that two people get at the same time that is the same , or not at the same time but when shared with the other is a perfect addition/clarification of the other persons insight .

Thats weird. I've had that alot. Like when I was watching a news report in a chip shop on David Beckham and thought to myself "wanker". Then this other guy five seconds later watching the broadcast next to me said "Twat."
Was God speaking to both of us?
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die." 
- Abdul Alhazred.
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RE: Personal relationships with deities
Of course...

... don't you know that God's primary message is to teach the world that David Beckham is both a wanker and a twat!
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RE: Personal relationships with deities
(October 17, 2015 at 4:50 pm)Evie Wrote: Of course...

... don't you know that God's primary message is to teach the world that David Beckham is both a wanker and a twat!

Hes a tanker.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die." 
- Abdul Alhazred.
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