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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 8:50 pm
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(October 17, 2012 at 6:52 pm)IATIA Wrote: (October 17, 2012 at 3:57 pm)Brian37 Wrote: So somehow you out of all the 7 billion humans magically have the tin foil antenna that allows god to talk to you. And yet, R_J's god had no inclination to speak with the wannabe minister. I guess little voices in the head are non-transferable.
 Wow, I must be slow today, but it's so obvious! Why would god ever have someone pass a message from him to someone else when he could tell them himself?
By the way, not to be rude but that was the worst 'testimony' I have ever heard. You get a vague intuition to go to a coffee shop, and when you hear some couple having a 'troubled discussion', you ask 'god' for words. And what divine wisdom do you then impart on these people? 'Do what god says and it'll be fine'...really? Also, you claim to have 'rationalized the impulse away as weird' but you are later convinced that god did it, when it is so mundane? On a better note, at least it wasn't obviously made up (except the god part  )
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 8:55 pm
It sounds to me like this wasn't god, it was your Jiminy Cricket.
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 9:15 pm
(October 17, 2012 at 8:55 pm)festive1 Wrote: It sounds to me like this wasn't god, it was your Jiminy Cricket.
I'd go nuts to with that bloke bending my ear-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOPY_cWFBwk
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 10:01 pm
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 10:03 pm
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What the fuck did I just watch, and why did I watch all of it?
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 10:08 pm
(October 17, 2012 at 10:03 pm)festive1 Wrote: What the fuck did I just watch, and why did I watch all of it?
Was it a voice telling you to do it?
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 11:31 pm
(October 17, 2012 at 7:22 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Most religious people could be said to have a mental health problem... aka "hearing voices" in their heads.
meh
This has been said here many times, yet Christians are the most stable people in the country.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 11:33 pm
(October 17, 2012 at 6:58 am)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: Testimony (why not share)
Now you know the answer to that!
It is one thing to share a personal experience with the group, but an anecdotal reprise of god on an atheist forum ... ??? What type of responses were you expecting?
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 18, 2012 at 9:34 am
(October 17, 2012 at 11:33 pm)IATIA Wrote: (October 17, 2012 at 6:58 am)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: Testimony (why not share)
Now you know the answer to that!
It is one thing to share a personal experience with the group, but an anecdotal reprise of god on an atheist forum ... ??? What type of responses were you expecting? I consider you guys my friends, why wouldn't I share something with my friends?
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 18, 2012 at 9:46 am
I am reminded of an old story about a missionary. He was told because of tribal tradition he had to eat the raw entrails of a dog before he could have the status to talk to the tribe. Halfway though tucking into his dinner, the chief turned to the tribe an said there look, the white-man will do anything to ingratiate himself.
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