S(March 30, 2012 at 8:12 pm)Telsa Wrote: [quote='mediamogul' pid='263909' dateline='1333151193']
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Quote:I don't neccessarily think you are schizophrenic or psychotic, which refers to a specific cluster of symptoms outlined in the DSM-IV, I don't have enough info to make a diagnosis. A person can have false beliefs without being overtly delusional. Take white supremecists or folks who believe in new age medicine. This is the difference between mental illness and incorrect superstitious belief. I think you are correctly skeptical of other religions but like many theists you appear to have a blind spot for your own. Take that same skepticism and apply it to your own beliefs and it will yield similar results.
Ok. A couple things. First, just about everyone here has said I'm schizo, with little cause. Second, I HAVE applied skepticism to my religion--and I became an atheist. It was by continuing to seek greater Truth that led me to Buddhism. After I was Buddhist, God called me back to Him through coincidences and forced...well,more like invited--me to abandon my belief that there is no Greater Being. There was simply to much meaning in what was happening, be it the coincidences or the time constantly being the same or changing the second I got into the room. In all honesty, it would have required greater faith for me to remain atheist.
Did God mention his name? For all you know it was Allah calling you and by now he'd be pretty pissed that you think it's that fake Christian god that called you.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
