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urge to pray - advice/help
#51
RE: urge to pray - advice/help
(February 6, 2012 at 9:11 pm)Epimethean Wrote: You are either a complete fool or a snakeoil salesman of the first degree. There are millions of complete nutters in the world, and, thanks to the internet, many of them have now found a venue by means of which to spray their lunacy, be it about dreams and visions, ESP or near death experiences. The fact that you count this sort of testimony to be valid speaks volumes about your credulity-and the value of your opinions. If you are just a liar, then your sort is the worst kind.

Your position that anyone claiming to receive a vision of Jesus is a "nutter", whether they are on the internet or not. So, of what value is your opinion on this subject? If you saw a genuine testimony you wouldn't recognize it because of bias.
(February 6, 2012 at 9:15 pm)passionatefool Wrote: I see a hot muscular man in my dream once and I turned gay. That vision changed my life....He was worshipable. ..jk

Anyway, when I was a Buddhist, many buddhist tell stories of their near-death experience as seeing Buddhas or Bodhisattvas. Christian sees God or Jesus. I bet the Hindus see Brahma, the Taoist see the Jade Emperor, and the Muslim sees Allah...whatever he looks like. I think it probably have more to do with how the brain works psychologically than anything supernatural.

I don't rule out that people of other faiths have genuine experiences. I'm surprised, if you're an ex-christian, that you are not aware of what my viewpoint is on this, according to scripture. That is because of demonic oppression people receive counterfeit experiences of God (or whatever) backed up with supernatural evidence. What is interesting, as I showed in those videos, that Muslims who are predisposed to see Allah, and who hate Christianity, saw visions of Jesus instead.
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#52
RE: urge to pray - advice/help
Quote:oh those poor guys, probably sitting in the un-wanted deities warehouse somewhere in mt. olympus or heaven or where ever.

I have heard that Odin is in a nursing home in Surrey...enjoying crisp linen sheets daily. Wink Shades
Maybe send YHWH there and they can compare notes?
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#53
RE: urge to pray - advice/help
I think the TItans showed up as actors on Charmed at some point... remakably smaller than I was expecting.
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#54
RE: urge to pray - advice/help
Did they?? I must have missed that episode...

Really Tacky, most gods are like that...less than expected I mean
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#55
RE: urge to pray - advice/help
"Your position that anyone claiming to receive a vision of Jesus is a "nutter", whether they are on the internet or not. So, of what value is your opinion on this subject? If you saw a genuine testimony you wouldn't recognize it because of bias."

Methinks you are forgetting where you are posting. Secondhand testimony from unreliable witnesses gets you no cookie here.

I've seen people "speaking in tongues," and while doing so, they had the presence of mind to keep holding the microphone to their mouths. Sorry, but there is zero evidence for your skydaddy or his junior, crossboy.
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#56
RE: urge to pray - advice/help
Thor is scheduled to wreck Heathrow Airport some time in the near future... maybe...

Idiot deity could never keep his temper. :S
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#57
RE: urge to pray - advice/help
(February 7, 2012 at 8:57 am)Epimethean Wrote: "Your position that anyone claiming to receive a vision of Jesus is a "nutter", whether they are on the internet or not. So, of what value is your opinion on this subject? If you saw a genuine testimony you wouldn't recognize it because of bias."

Methinks you are forgetting where you are posting. Secondhand testimony from unreliable witnesses gets you no cookie here.

I've seen people "speaking in tongues," and while doing so, they had the presence of mind to keep holding the microphone to their mouths. Sorry, but there is zero evidence for your skydaddy or his junior, crossboy.

I have become an atheist yet I can still speak in tongues.
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#58
RE: urge to pray - advice/help
The depths some of these idiots will go to prop up their fairy tales is truly astonishing.

If there were a god he should be ashamed of such "followers."
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#59
RE: urge to pray - advice/help
BLove-"I'll call that pagan's god bet and raise him a set of demons".

It's absurd that someone would actually resort to propping up the silly or supernatural with yet more silly or supernatural. How high do you have to pile the bullshit before it makes "sense"? Fucking demons...what a joke. Inserting tricksters into your mythos does not explain anything whatsoever, it only makes the water muddier. Now any reason you have to believe in your god is more than likely demonic trickery, any evidence you feel supports your god..fabricated by demons..etc etc etc.....

Good thing there is no such thing as a supernatural and incomprehensibly powerful cosmic trickster. Just a human desire to believe in such things as to avoid critical thinking (which, I'm told..is difficult).
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#60
RE: urge to pray - advice/help
(February 7, 2012 at 6:58 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: I have heard that Odin is in a nursing home in Surrey...enjoying crisp linen sheets daily. Wink Shades
Maybe send YHWH there and they can compare notes?

Dirk Gently I believe.Wink Shades



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