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And Amazing Grace only sounds enjoyably listenable when it is played on Bagpipes.
Doesn't sound worth the brown logs I drop into the toilet any other way.
rmfr
@ Tin-Man
"Oh, and Arakish... Next time you just move your lips without actually singing, could you AT LEAST do so with the correct lyrics? You think I don't recognize "Highway to Hell" when I see it?"
***bows boughs in shame***
Sorry, just seemed more apropos.
rmfr
God is AWESOME: I could go on and on.
Ain't that the truth!
Dear Theists,
Please understand the vast majority of us on this forum were raised indoctrinated to religion.
Professor Hector Avalos is the Professor of Religion at Iowa State University. He is an athiest biblical scholar with a Phd from Harvard.
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/an-unlikely-atheist-teaches-others/ar...
Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou is the Professor of Religion at Exetor. She is also an athiest biblical scholar with a series on Netflix/The Bible's Buried Secrets.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ProfFrancesca?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp...
Professor Bart Ehrman is also an athiest biblical scholar. He is located at Chapel Hill and has a Phd from Princeton Divinity. He has written over 30 books. Please consider subscribing to his blog. The Afterlife was invented!
https://youtu.be/Pz-z8j67Ids
Elaine Pagels is the Professor of Religion at Princeton Divinity and is also an athiest. Her book The Origin of Satan is a magical read. 666 does Not stand for Satan. It represents Caesar Nero.
https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Satan-Christians-Demonized-Heretics/dp/067...
Professor Joel Baden is located at Yale Divinity. He is also a heretic.
https://youtu.be/XS7LgbMr1m4
Professor Candida Moss received her Phd from Oxford. Her book titled Reconceiving Infertility is a powerful read. Mother Mary was Not conceived by a ghost.
Smile and be kind to one another. No Gods required ❤
Confirmation Bias/Psychology
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/godlessindixie/2014/05/22/games-christians...
@ God is AWESOME. Is Satan real? Just asking for a friend.
LOL
hisss!!!! Why are you laughing? I am the faithful servant of Ha’Satan. I am Ha’Thada. Nothing good ever came out of Galilee and Jesus is nothing but Satan’s puppet. The OP casts out demons by the power of beelzebub!!! Hiss!!! A pox on the OP!!! A pox, i say.”
Shh. Shh. Calm down guys. Jeeze. Sorry OP. I can’t seem to get these guys to stay silent.
goD says it’s a problem with my auditory thalamus - but that doesn’t explain the tactile hallucinations, now does it?
But, I do know the power of the name JESUS!!’
hisssss!!!! I hate that name
Get behind me SATAN! Am I right? Am I right? Or what? Who’s feeling me, right?
God bless you, OP. If you can convert even one Atheist, you have accomplished a great deal. Let your faith shine forth, for they are blinded by their own conceit! Am I right? Who’s feeling me?
LOL
@doG
How about those tactile hallucinations, doG? I don’t suppose they’re coming from my auditory thalamus? You’re the doc, am I right? Are you feeling me?
The brain works in mysterious ways. LOL.
Well not really mysterious...There was this guy suffering for awhile with with pain in his left foot from diabetic neuropathy, which sometimes can present as a constant nagging pain. It was his great tow that throbbed, (this was prior to the advent of neurontin and pregabalin), one day he went out to his workshop, unlocked his 12 guage, and blew his toe off...and after excising the dead tissue, almost all his toes and part of his foot. The bad part of this story, is he ended up suffering from PLP. Phantom Limb Pain. In the same place that no longer exists on his body...there is a feedback loop between your brain and spine/peripheral nerves, that is interrupted by loss of limb, that can't be corrected, that allows your brain to remember what that now gone limb used to experience...pain...even when the limb is gone, the brain remembers. Your brain ratty, is a marvelous thing, when neurochemistry goes wrong, no matter how minor the symptomatology, it goes wrong. We are at the point to target your imbalance, as you know, but not very precisely. I am sorry to say.
edit: added.
Paracusia is very common in a variety of specific neurologic disorders, as all the senses are neurologically connected physically, any sense activation can elicit response in multiple areas. This physical attribute you should likely not pin on satan...especially seeing there is zero evidence of a horned, trifurcated tailed, red dude.
@doG
Hmm. Thanks for the response. My psychiatrist once told me I was the most severe case she’d ever encountered. Hallucinations of every kind. Auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, and visual - coupled with paranoid delusions that I could telepathically speak to people I knew; historical figures; the dead; my self from the future; love affairs with humans on different planets, etc.
But you know; when I finally uncovered everything and realized that it was the OverLord masquerading as the Evil One - only then was I able to make progress.
My real progress was made when I realized that the voices aren’t in your head; they’re in your heart. Indeed, every attempt to suppress the voices using mental application within my skull would fail. It was only one morning when I serendipitously located a point in my heart was I able to suppress the constant hallucinations and lies. Indeed, there were so many lies I was led to believe. A very invasive element of the illness, I must say.
Within months I was voice free about 98% of the time. Able to hold down a job. And within two years I was married with a place of my own, a car and a cat.
But back to the topic. Is there anything I can do about a phantom erection? I’ve been having one for several hours now. Are you feeling me, doc?
Ummm, your heart is a pump ratty...that's it.
@Rat Spit,
I am sorry to hear what you went through with the psychiatrist, the voices and hallucinations and how you hate the name of Jesus. You can get free of the torment. And yes, I know evil spirits hate the name of Jesus because they must BOW to His Mighty Name. It’s not you who hates his name, it’s a spirit. And yes for the 50th time, I understand you don’t believe there is a god or spirits, but clearly you are being tormented by one who has deep hatred for God.
Would you agree those thoughts took you captive, you said they constantly lied to you, your heard their voices, and it brought unspeakable pain, torment, and destruction to your life.
You CAN get free from it all by calling on the NAME OF JESUS. Jesus came to set the captive free, healing all who were oppressed of the devil. The devil has no power standing up to the Name of Jesus Christ. He was totally defeated by Christ.
The Word of God says ..... Christ became obedient unto death, therefore, God highly exalted him and gave him a Name above EVERY name, that at the Name of JESUS, every knee should bow, of things in heaven, on earth, and under the earth, and every tongue confess that he is LORD (Master).
If you call on His name, he will deliver you. The torment and lies you described will cease. Command it to come out of you in the mighty name of Jesus. It has to bow the knee. Go to a church that believes in deliverance, a non denomination church that believes in healing, deliverance, etc. You will see.
I took a young gal to church who was tormented, who poured baby powder over her body, thought she was floating in mid air while walking, we gathered around and prayed commanding it to leave. She cried out after we prayed, screaming to have the torture stop holding her head, and it looked as if nothing happened. We took her home, and later that night, it came out of her. About ten days later, we went back to visit her. Her roommate said she didn’t know how to contact us, so she wrote an ad in the newspaper in hopes of finding us to let us know she had been healed.
All power in heaven and earth was given to Jesus and the devil knows he must bow to the Name. THATS EXACTLY WHY he hates his name.
@ GIA
so much bullshit in one post. Dear oh dear. Didn't your parents teach you not to lie even for "jesus"?
I know, right?
All this crap that I have to clean up now. Why can't theists keep their shit in their brains where it belongs?
And if they ain't got room in their tiny brains, well they can just shove it up their ass...
rmfr
@God is awesome: we gathered around and prayed commanding it to leave.
You sound unbelievably sinister. How many people with real mental and physical ailments have been left permanently damaged or dead by misguided mumbo-jumbo exorcist wannabes like you? Grow up and get your head out of Peter Blatty. Sick people need doctors and science-based medicine, not a bunch of hysterical chanting cretins.
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@doG
Regarding Satan - the cultural meme of a bald headed, black clad hooded man is quite accurate in my opinion. He has shown me his face once. I don’t know if you’ll get my gist, but everything about his forehead spoke “murderer” - like an image of a severely violent convict - but very sophisticated, patient, - quite evolved. A perfected man, in the Buddhist sense. I believe such species exist in all realms of being.
But I accept that you might count this as fiction - never having encountered such a thing.
Have you seen “Birdman” with uh - who played the original Batman, again. Anyhow. That deep inner voice which is constantly judging you - an otherwise normal friend of mine admitted that he has such an inner critic. I wonder if my inner critic simply went psycho?
Well, I don't know what to say mr. rodent...I suppose one would have to believe in the supernatural to attribute their symptoms to other agents. Is that reasonable?
@doG
Sure. Sure. No worries. Just thought you might find that interesting. This cultural meme of the Devil persists over historical time. Of course, I may have been influenced by a movie I saw about Joan of Ark - but, well - never mind. Just some potpourri for the readers.
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Rat Spit, your demon is showing. Why else would you hate the name of Jesus? Because it is SO powerful and reminds you that you have been defeated. In the name of Jesus I command you to come out of him. Rat Spit, with your intellect and your heart, tell that demon to stop mentally torturing you. Tell him to leave you alone and get out of your house. Turn to Jesus and cry out to him for He will help you. Jesus is Lord! His name is above every name, including your demon. We will pray for you.
"We will pray for you."
We? You're wasting your prayers, and he's being facetious.
@Sheldon
Thanks Sheldon. I am being facetious. Sorry Grace, sorry GiA - it was a joke. I’m doing quite well with my diagnosis thank you.
And when you’re as deeply connected to the voices as I am, you begin to realize that they’re a part of you. So I am in no need of any exercise.
Mods...this has gotta be a troll.....lol.
Hmm...post I was replying to just disappeared....
I looked up a few from Psalm 22. You are REALLY grasping at straws. And if that is what you consider proof, you should have no trouble "proving" black is white.
Holy shit we are starting to exorcise demons right here on the forum!! Get the popcorn! Get the beer! Someone get Tin Man some lube for his nuts and bolt! Oh damn the excitement is off the hook!
@Pirate Jack Re: "Someone get Tin Man some lube for his nuts and bolt!"
Hey, no worries! I have my own special high-viscosity blend! Thanks for the thought, though. Ooooo... But I will have a pint of that beer, if you don't mind.... *smacking lips*...
Yes sir! I just don’t want to miss any of the demons and shit!
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