It is an irony that I often learn more about my own believing from those that do not believe at all than from those that shout all over the place how great they believe.
Dude, I was immersed in Christianity from the time I was literally one week old. I went to church activities at least three days a week for 15 years. So please don't assume that I just didn't know enough about the Bible or Christianity for prayer to "work".
Also, what kind of system is this...
There's a Star Trek TNG episode about Riker being locked in an extraterrestrial mental asylum, charged with murder. His only way to get out is believing that his friends from the Enterprise are real, while his doctor who is from an alien race pressurizes him to give up belief in his "imaginary...
There are many tangent topics to pick from, so where I am coming from is that some things are only supposed to be magical when we are children, like imaginary friends or like easter bunnies. If we hold on to these things as adults they become a problem. That is one case in which a person in...
In the end, we don't have to "understand something" in order to recognize that it has what the "spiritualist" would likely consider "mundane" origins. I find it weird, and sad, that some would consider any part of it "mundane" just because it didn't have imaginary friends in its origin story...
I am afraid, it is one's problem if searching the maker of the complex (though very well defined) system of his living body is like searching a myth, and searching how the natural laws started is not like looking for a fairy tale.
I can assure you, since now, that one cannot get any real...
Who said that? We currently don't know what's before/beyond the big bang? Or what started the natural laws. Invoking a myth to fix the problem without ways to make tests and predictions isn't getting anyone to truth.
Again, computers are made by people. The universe is doing just fine creating...
Sure, you can look at what's in the box AFTER you've paid me for it.
Well waddaya know! It's empty! Dang, all that dough and ...
That's only because there's only one real one. The rest are imaginary.
Well, to adapt something the late great Martin Gardner said, Evidence of ESP is overwhelming...
The soul is the human spirit that distinguishes man from the animal.
Working through the body/brain/mind, the soul does the following.......
“The human spirit which distinguishes man from the animal is the rational soul, and these two names—the human spirit and the rational soul—designate one...
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 answers this question...
14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial [the devil]? Or what does a believer have in...
Sorry the number of soldiers killed in one night by an angel is 185,000 not 186,000 what's 1000 soldiers between friends.
You can read all about it in Isaiah 37:36
Just because you haven't encountered a Demon or Angel doesn't mean that they don't exist. Many of us have had physical contact...
What was convenient about the early Christians believing that God was their Savior and being persecuted for their faith and not recanting? Sin separating us from God are not beliefs that exist in Islam and Hinduism and Scientology.
It detracts from Christianity being borrowed from myths that attracted gentiles. Pagan ideas of heaven were popular because they didn't involve us needing a Savior, but Christianity was always a narrow path.
That has nothing to do with where the myths came from.
What you said about god I heard the same from my friends in Islam, my GF who was Hindu, another GF in Islam, my Scientologist friends and it does not mean your imaginary friends are real.
Thank you. That means something. But now I have a question related to schizophrenia, which I'm rather unfamiliar with. Did you at all have the sense that this book might turn into a full blown expose (adultish) /testimony of that, or did you just read it as a kid with a vivid sometimes goofy...
I read the first chapter.
I had imaginary friends when I was little, but they weren't nearly as sophisticated.
However, as an adult, whether it's because of being schizophrenic or since I was Raelian or both, I have had and probably always will have the ability to communicate with voices.
I...
I will have to miss out because I have no device on which I can download Kindle...
I am not techy at all. I have a cell phone but only use it to make or receive calls when I am not home.
I really envy people like you who are creative and can write stories and novels, as I have no such...