How to be a strong atheist in a rather straightforward way

[tackattack]

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I've experienced an insanely high 'High' (yet peaceful and pleasant feeling) very much like tackattack describes it for 8 weeks while I was in hospital and I ended up getting diagnosed with the possibility of bi-polar due to the kind of psychosis I experienced. I then had a weird residue of the feelings during my recovery and I still take 800 mg of Lithium a night now. Now I feel very empty then suddenly pretty good then suddenly very empty again. Dunno if that's anything to do with the drugs or if I am just not the sort of excitable person I used to be (apart from for brief moments).

It takes a long while to come off a drug like Lithium even if it's thought to not be required anymore, I have to come off it very gradually. Unless I have a 2nd mental episode I'm not confirmed as actually having Bi-polar and it may have been a 'one off' due to a lot of stress and other factors.

One can feel the most amazing things when one is delusional... and heck, I would have believed anything back then, if someone mentioned the holy spirit, sure I'd believe it. I was super high and ultra gullible. I was high and could have easily attributed it to the Holy Spirit. I don't see how being high and attributing means fuck-all. You have to have some way of genuinely knowing it is the Holy Spirit if you are to claim it is... and I know of such way. How can you know what the 'holy spirit' feels like? And personal experience isn't remotely valid evidence for such things anyway (as I said, how can it be anyway - how can you discern what the 'Holy Spirit' feels like? That's crazy).

EvF

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I was just having anxiety and didn't atribute it to being engaged to my wife an stresses of life. I was never diagnosed with any level of depression. I wasn't given any drugs and after 3 visits I was released and have never been back. I've had several MRI's and Cat scans in my life (I've been in 5 major vehicle accidents). If I have had illegal drugs, it hasn't been for at least 14 or so years. The only medications I bother to take are the occasional asprin or nyquill. I'm the same online as in person, as with friends, as with family. I'm probably less two faced than most people I've met. I'm not depressed or unhappy. I'm content with my life as it is. I could always have more, but I'm content.

As far as identifying it well Galatians 5:22-23 lets us know the fruits of the spirit, so by observing the consequences of our actions we can determine wheter it is in the spirit. I'f you're going to eliminate all personal experiences even shared ones then I think we're just going to have to stop this discussion at "I believe that I have a soul or spirit and you don't".

Sorry if my spelling and grammer are horrendous.. I've been very rushed lately.