(March 19, 2013 at 10:08 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: Attacking the sanity of your ideological opponent is lazy and lame.
The easiest dismissal of atheism would be to declare atheism a mental illness. (Broken God antenna.)
But that would be gutless and useless.
Personally, before I acknowledge I was ill....I kept my experiences a secret.
When I believe I experienced God directly or the spiritual world or Prophets/Saints/Imams/dead believers....I didn't go parading my experience to others because I believed it was a personal honor.
The truth is I tried my best to live to that special feeling that I was selected for such experience. And in many ways it made me a better person.
I'm not attacking Jstrodel. I understand what he is going through more then most people here.
Most of my life I've been denying I have an illness and thought I had a vision power to see the spiritual world time to time as well as God's face and glory.
I thought I saw the tree of Zaqum as well as Tuba. I thought I saw Angels.
That type of experience does make you a better person if you believe in it and also don't go parading your experiences to others.
I don't know why the Creator created mental illness. I don't think facing "demonic entities" and "hearing voice of God" is bad necessarily.
I use to be able to summon a lot of spiritual power to overcome what I thought were Jinn. But sometimes it got me manic.
How can he tell his experiences are correct while I know mine were false?
Simply saying I hear a voice doesn't suffice for logic.
I don't want to attack him, but, when you hear voices, face demonic entities, it's a tough life, and I've been through it, and I want to advise a way out of it.