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Differentiating a religious experience/including hallucinations from a psyc disorder
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RE: Differentiating a religious experience/including hallucinations from a psyc disorder
(March 20, 2012 at 9:15 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: And why do you think I'm here to save you :/

Unbelievable arrogance?
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#42
RE: Differentiating a religious experience/including hallucinations from a psyc disorder
(March 20, 2012 at 6:55 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: When one of your senior members referred me here he said most of you were pretty intelligent. I've been greatly disappointed thus far. Wow


Please answer my question: Why are you quoting scripture at a bunch of atheists? That speaks poorly of YOUR intellect.


Oh,I cant begin to tell you how sorry I am we have failed to live up to your expectations. I really don't know how I will manage to live with myself.
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#43
RE: Differentiating a religious experience/including hallucinations from a psyc disorder
(March 20, 2012 at 6:55 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: When one of your senior members referred me here he said most of you were pretty intelligent. I've been greatly disappointed thus far. Wow

Well all I've really seen from you is you telling us how we feel. Saying we're angry and depressed. Were you expecting us to agree with what you're saying and convert to your beliefs or something? What the hell did you expect?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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#44
RE: Differentiating a religious experience/including hallucinations from a psyc disorder
(March 20, 2012 at 9:15 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: And why do you think I'm here to save you :/

If you wish to consider intelligence, you have to be willing to engage in intelligent discourse in order for such a thing to be evident.

All you have done is preach, and ignore the criticisms. Some of them are impolite, but many christians are impolite if you criticise them as well. You have been impolite also in your arrogance. You don't see it as arrogance, so let me try to explain;

First of all, I was polite enough to try your idea about calling on demons in the name of Jesus Christ. Nothing happened, a point you've ignored, which is a little insulting seeing as I did as you asked, and told you what happened. If you ask us to do something, and we do it in the interests of truth. You could show some respect by acknowledging it.

Now, its your turn to try something;
Please write/type down the reasons why you dismiss Islam (or another other faith you wish to choose) as untrue and false. What does that religion need to provide in order to convince you it is true?
Imagine you do not believe, and apply those reasons to your own religion. Highlight what makes your belief more true than the absolute conviction of faith held by those in another religion.

Can you please discuss your conclusions after doing so.
Self-authenticating private evidence is useless, because it is indistinguishable from the illusion of it. ― Kel, Kelosophy Blog

If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic.
― Tim Minchin, Storm
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#45
RE: Differentiating a religious experience/including hallucinations from a psyc disorder
(March 20, 2012 at 9:15 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: And why do you think I'm here to save you :/

Because you said...

(March 19, 2012 at 5:23 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: May Jesus Christ shed his living blood over your souls and deliver you from your demons! In Jesus name I pray.

amongst many other similar things.

Ps your signature "ban me if you want" - do you see yourself as some sort of martyr? I'd say your chances of getting banned are zero, you've broken no rules.

You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.

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#46
RE: Differentiating a religious experience/including hallucinations from a psyc disorder
(March 20, 2012 at 2:51 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: Stimbo yes the video explains how two people who see the same thing can see different things or explain it away or call it supernatural whatever. Giving you my witnesses would not only violate their privacy but I doubt you'd really follow up with them or believe more hearsay. So I invite you to summon your demons in the name of Jesus Christ, to reveal themselves and tell me how you explain your experience. But I wouldn't recommend it if you don't have faith in Jesus to protect you from them.

Stimbo has demons?
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#47
RE: Differentiating a religious experience/including hallucinations from a psyc disorder
So now the loss of a loved one is "having a daemon" ??

Cruel Hunter, VERY cruel
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#48
RE: Differentiating a religious experience/including hallucinations from a psyc disorder
(March 20, 2012 at 3:04 pm)NoMoreFaith Wrote: "I invoke the authority of Jesus Christ and demand my demons manifest"
Nothing happened, so I stared intently in the mirror and said again
"On the authority of Jesus Christ, Lord Almighty, I command my demons to show themselves"
Just in case I got the words wrong.

Only three names work, and you have to say each three times. They are Bloody Mary, Biggie Smalls and Beetle Juice.
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#49
RE: Differentiating a religious experience/including hallucinations from a psyc disorder
Hehe

I like "Beetle Juice" "Beetle Juice" "Beetle Juice"!
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#50
RE: Differentiating a religious experience/including hallucinations from a psyc disorder
(March 20, 2012 at 3:35 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: I know biblical Christianity is not mainstream and there is no demonic preoccupation. I just asked for opinions on spiritual manifestations. Jesus commanded us in Mark 16:17 to cast them out in His name and a lot of mainstream Christian churches avoid the issue due to critism like yours.

Not true Elizabeth, your stepfather (me) spoke to the old pastor of New Hope out on 31 in Acme and his exact statement to me after telling me the bible is trustworthy was that they don't worry about Mark 16:17 because it is a bunchy of hooey (his words not mine).
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