(6 hours ago)Fake Messiah Wrote: I hope you get better, and I'm sorry to hear about your illness.
Since priests aren't particularly intelligent, I believe he may have had more oil than he realized.
Or he was lying for Jesus. The Catholic Church has a tradition of lying about self-fulfilling oils. Consider the holy oil used to anoint French kings. It is said to have been transported from Heaven to France by a pigeon on its beak, and it then inexplicably multiplied for centuries, enabling clergy to anoint kings.
Thank you
and thanks for your thoughts on the claim... they help I'm getting there slowly, I'm being told, physically at least. But mentally this depression is really hurting me, and so far it's mainly been Buddhist-like thoughts that gets me out of it, usually accidentally; eg I end a train of thought and my focus jumps to my breath and suddenly it becomes clear, in a Buddhist like way, how pointless all of that thinking had been, and also how avoidable, with Buddhist-like meditation. Basically I wish I could get into the state where I'm not imaging what it's like be in hell for instance, when I don't even believe in it, but that's where my depression takes me most nights at the moment and it's terrifying. But rationally speaking I'd guess that you guys would say that you shouldn't imagine situations just because they're unfalsifiable, but rather only if they are probable... ie you believe them to be true? In a clear state of mind that's what I'd think I think, but I just wish I could get that into my depressed state of mind as well.
