Did I see you down
in a young girl's town
With your mother in so much pain?
I was almost there
at the top of the stairs
With her screamin' in the rain.
Did she wake you up
to tell you that
It was only a change of plan?
Dream up, dream up,
let me fill your cup
With the promise of a man.
Did I...
Woops, haven't been on in a while. Thanks @YmirGF , we are all well here. Had a hip-flask fall off the shelf here. Luckily it wasn't open!
Some buildings in the wellington cbd are still closed, a car park is set for demolition. Most of the upheaval (literal! 2m upward movement in some places)...
Super-chocolate spiced chocolate cake
Biscuit base:
200g pepernoten (which you've just made and are trying not to eat...)
50g melted butter
Blend and press into a lined/greased cake tin. Refrigerate.
Place a pot with some water in it on the stove on a low heat. Rest a stainless steel bowl...
Some time ago in chat we were discussing food, and some requests were made to share a few recipes of mine, so here's to @Sakeenah @Mandi @Shadow Wolf
Pepernoten
For this recipe you'll need to make a spice mix called Speculaas. Used in several different Dutch baking recipes, and so I'll post...
Also true. However the experience itself wouldn't be coloured with religious flavourings. The dismissal and/or explanation would come after, just as a Christian might explain the experience as "God speaking to me" as that is how it would be experienced at the time
Both. That an atheist may be less likely to interpret the experience through religious-flavoured symbology, and so have a clearer picture to interpret and to integrate into their lives
Maybe this could be a new thread topic, but a question going off Ymir's response...
Would an atheist be better equipped to deal with a spontaneous mystical experience than a person familiar with one or more religious belief systems?
So to clarify... You're pretty much saying that a person who has such an experience, being outside the normal realms of comprehension, latches onto known symbols such as the Christ symbol, in an attempt to make sense of the experience within terms already known, because taking the experience at...