Messengers/Message

[Angrboda]

So, when good things come your way, it's because of God. And when bad things come along, it's a gift from God, helping you develop your strength. Wow, I like them odds. How much does the house take?


If I'm not misreading you, you concluded that this gentleman who was "something like that" was a messenger from God, and that these flashes in your mind, and words coming to present from you are a result of God, rather than simply intuitions or abilities you already have? It sounds to me that you believe in God, therefore anything and everything is a result of God. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. How do you know the guy wasn't one of Satan's minions? They're certainly "something like" an angel, and it's said they can appear as an angel of light.

So we have things being interpreted as from God regardless of whether they are good or bad, and attributing things to God without any clear sign they are of God. And you wonder why we're skeptical of your thoughts about God?


Beyond that, the question of foretelling events. Several things need to be true. The foretelling has to be specific enough for its success to be unambiguous, it has to be sufficiently unusual that it could not be expected to occur by chance alone, it has to be something that didn't or couldn't come to pass as a consequence of believing in the foretelling (e.g. if you are told you will be successful, and therefore take chances in business, the telling is tainted by your knowledge). But probably most importantly, you have to measure the successful predictions against the failed predictions. Without knowing the full list of (potential) predictions, the hits are worth nothing. And cold readers can convince us of great powers of prediction based on reading you, and using the Barnum effect.

I also find your posting this and then claiming "privacy" when challenged for details to be not a little disingenuous. Either you're willing to witness for God or you aren't. You say that you wrote this all down immediately afterward. Provide your original written account or go away.

(Btw, it's perfectly understandable that you would remember a face rather than a name, that's how the mind works; still, you did write it down right after.)