How can Christians not admit Christianity is all a pile of garbage when ...?

[Abracadabra]

Sure, but we shouldn't just use terms because they're fun.

Why not? What are you? A prude?

What's wrong with having a little fun?

No, I'm just kidding.

Of course, we should use words as best we can when writing serious documents and so forth. But gee whiz when it comes to goofing around on an internet forum things should be a little looser doncha think?

Actually I feel that I am using the term correctly, based on what we've already discussed, and you even agreed that there are many people who think of "Wicca" in animistic or psychological terms like I do and that this is not unique.

I'm actually interested in the concept of "emergent thought-forms" for this very reason. There are actually books and papers written by people who address the concept of "invoking spirits" as "thought-forms".

They claim that if you can use your imagination to create a powerful enough thought-form, that thought-form will indeed take on a spirit of its own.

This is kind of interesting to me because that's precisely what secular atheists claim we are. They claim that we are nothing more than an emergent thought-form.

Well, gee wiz, if we are nothing more than a thought-form that has emerged from our brain, then the idea that spirits can be invoked to arise as thought-forms within that same brain actually makes some secular sense.

This brings my attention to the concept of schizophrenia. What exactly is it? Is it a situation where two thought-forms arise within a single brain and neither of them is sure which one the brain belongs to?

And who would the brain truly "belong" to if it actually gave rise to two entirely different POVs who both thought of themselves as being the "real you".

Seems to me that it would make for some interesting conversations within that single brain.

So I have an interest in trying to invoke "spirits" via thought-forms in this way. I confess that I haven't succeeded yet. Maybe it requires a brain that is on the edge of schizophrenia?

Maybe this explains why for some people the concept of 'spirits' seem far more real than for other people.

As much as a spiritual essence to reality interests me, I must confess that I haven't yet been able to invoke a convincingly 'independent spirit'.

I do find myself referring to myself as "we" though.

Sometimes I'll think to myself, "What are we going to do now?"

Then I ask myself "What do you mean by we?"

And I'll answer, "I have no idea, I thought you said that".