RE: How to debunk the first cause argument without trying too hard
September 21, 2015 at 11:25 am
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2015 at 11:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Rather than accept your condition and all that this entails, you've decided to subscribe to a reinforcing delusion of religious belief? Down this road lay only tears, my friend.
Has it ever occurred to you that both the chainsaw wielding mans appearance -and- disappearance.....are hallucinations? That, when you say "by the name of god " you are -still- hallucinating when you see him disappear? People don't just appear -or- disappear, Mystic. It's not just the effect..but also the guidance that forms the fabric of your delusions - from what you've just described. That these experiences are a trial, and one in which you invoke divine assistance - of all things-..which somehow "works", is no more or less hallucinatory than the experiences themselves. It's not a trial...you received no divine assistance, no glory and beauty has been -shown- to you......you're just sick.
-Slightly off topic, but seeing as how you're sharing (and of course there's no compulsion to continue).....when you left us for awhile, did you hit a rough spot?
Has it ever occurred to you that both the chainsaw wielding mans appearance -and- disappearance.....are hallucinations? That, when you say "by the name of god " you are -still- hallucinating when you see him disappear? People don't just appear -or- disappear, Mystic. It's not just the effect..but also the guidance that forms the fabric of your delusions - from what you've just described. That these experiences are a trial, and one in which you invoke divine assistance - of all things-..which somehow "works", is no more or less hallucinatory than the experiences themselves. It's not a trial...you received no divine assistance, no glory and beauty has been -shown- to you......you're just sick.
-Slightly off topic, but seeing as how you're sharing (and of course there's no compulsion to continue).....when you left us for awhile, did you hit a rough spot?
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