Near death experience of Howard Storm

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 There are three types of people who say they uses to be atheists. People who used to be atheists, people who are lying about having been atheists, and people who are sincerely mistaken about having been atheists. You can make a similar statement about people who say they used to be theists.  

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 If more details are given, they should be consistent with the claim. If they are not, doubting the claim is reasonable. If someone said they used to be a theist, and in the same breath talked about what an asshole they used to be when they were a theist, it would at least give you a 'wait, whut?' moment, right? Not that theists can't be assholes, but mere theism has no link to assholery, so it's odd to talk about them like they're connected.

Now, imagine that you've encountered people who think they were theists because they were given a wrong definition of theism. Like they thought a theist is someone who doesn't drink alcohol. And this misconception is pretty widespread. Would you not wonder if someone who says they used to be a theist but everything they say as if it's connected to their theism has nothing to do with theism is one of those people who only think they used to be a theist because they don't understand what theism is?

I've been a person who doesn't understand what atheism is. Though my belief in God was reduced to keeping a small space in my brain open in case it turned out it was real, I was sure I wasn't like those close-minded atheists who think they can know for sure there's no God. I was already an atheist, but I didn't know it yet.

And atheists in America often have a lot in common that relates to our atheism besides our lack of belief in God. Most of us used to be Christians, because it's still unusual for an American to be raised non-theistically, though we can expect a lot more of those in Gen Z. We're an 'out group' and it doesn't take long for most of us to realize that separation of state and religion is a good idea, it's rare to meet an American atheist who isn't also a secularist.

None of this means Storm wasn't an atheist. But he's atypical enough to raise the question. And I think if he was an atheist claiming to have been a theist until an NDE convinced him that there is no afterlife, and now that he's not a theist he's not checking out upskirt shots on the internet anymore, a lot of theists would be wondering if he even knows what a theist is.

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Storm's account is silly enough to make anyone who isn't reading it as a "miracle account" to conclude it can't be real.  And seriously, can you think of any better way for a preacher to get attention than to say, "I was an atheist, but then I had this Near Death Experience, I was given a revelation from GAWD!".  All sorts of christards would immediately proclaim him the next Apostle Paul, beg him to tell them what gawd looked like and what gawd said, and throw money at him.  It's a pretty smart con, when you think about it.  He doesn't have to prove anything.  The only better shtick would be to somehow actually do miracles . . . er, the paid shills in the audience pretending that they had incurable cancer and the guy with the fake back injury, I mean.  Or have fake faith-healings run their course?  NDE's are the new con?

Sure but there are thousands of examples, and are they are all liars, and delusional? Are you delusional? Are we all delusional to a point? Rational means accepting common beliefs and understandings, and even they are manipulated for an agenda, which must be accepted. I've done way too much research into propaganda techniques, NLP, predictive programming, psyops, etc, the list goes on to how important it is to control the mind. From the perspective of those that want to control us, what's the purpose of giving us the truth, when most people believe what they say? Most of these people are involved in the occult, and believe things we don't, many are luciferians, where basically they believe Lucifer. I'll go into luciferian on another post at least as to what it means to what they believe. For them it's better to keep people in the dark, and not give them spiritual awareness, because then you are not as easy to manipulate to a point. For those that believe the government is the highest power, they will believe what the government says, and there is not a reason to reveal truth.

Here's a good quote from Zbigniew Bezezinski, former national security advisor in the US and cofounder of the trilateral commision. Also his daughter is on MSNBC currently her name is Mika Brzezinski

“…in early times, it was easier to control a million people, literally it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million people. Today, it is infinitely easier to kill a million people than to control a million people. It is easier to kill than to control….”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO2U9jJoWsM