You are wrong mate, I lost $100 bet with a trickcyclist mate of mine when I espoused this.
There is no association between epilepsy and schizophrenia. None.
It cost me $100 to learn that, now if you insist I'll put $200 on it that you are wrong.
There is an association between epilepsy and religious experience.
Anyone who has watched "The Reverend" in "Deadwood" knows that !!
gg
I see how you misunderstood my post.
I did not mean to indicate a correlation between epilepsy and schizophrenia, instead I was stating that in my experience there is a much higher correlation between being very religious and schizophrenia.
Before anyone takes offense I am not inferring that you have to be crazy to believe in god
Book? Chapter? Journal?
I remember Gerald Massey. His work is not considered reputable by modern Egyptologists. And Joseph Campbell...are you referring to the modern writer on myth?
This is a broad unanswerable statement.
I'll bite .. Josephus, Plutarch- romans... thousands of early manuscripts and fragments indicating a reliable transmission of the source documents. There is evidence there but not many people can be bothered looking.
Originally posted by Weird:
Good questions.
Yet these rules or commonsense things are broken all the time.
1) Animal drive for the survival of oneself to procreate or perhaps the survival for the entire community, why is any variation of this broken ?
2) Some broken circuity with the structured but genetic soup which will self-correct ?
3) Random or drug influenced deviation of basic nature ?
4) Perhaps those not bound by religion, feel perhaps some comfort that others are, due to their predictable behaviour.
5) Because their own belief's outside of religion means that they are driven by chaos and unstructured self-discovery, with no need of remorse. And how do they try to apply their own belief on others, when their own is based on their limited exposure to things, and why do they try to judge others?
I see how this works, you throw out names but I am supposed to cite chapter and verse, even though I'm not the one trying to prove the existence of an immortal being.
Yes the mythologist Joseph Campbell and his works such as "The Masks of God" and "The Hero with a Thousand Faces".
Josephus, is widely discredited as a fraud, the guy wrote volumes and yet mentions Christ in just one paragraph, you'd think he'd have a bit more to say on the topic of the saviour of the world.
Interesting point , but to take it one step further, except those of biased Christian writers, there isn’t one writing outside the Bible in all of ancient history that clearly refers to Jesus of Nazareth.
Weird, you know the deal , now answer the question : "in case of rapture, can i have your car and financial portfolio"
YES I AM an agent of Satan, but my duties are mostly ceremonial
I'm not trying to prove anything. I am simply pointing out that skepticism can be as ill-informed as some religious claims. I keep up with New Testament scholarship because it's an area of deep interest to me. I know the scholars (secular and religious) which are taken seriously in the field, and I know the conspiracist favourites which are quoted liberally on skeptical websites and are now being touted here as supposed evidence of parallels.
Clearly , we are not asking for you to cure cancer, split the atom, crack hexadecimal code, all we ask is that you show us one bit of existence of a god, surely it's not rocket science.
Originally posted by GG
Where were you 12 months before you were born in a spiritual sense. Nowhere.
Where will you be 12 months after you die in a spiritual sense .
Nowhere.
There is no mystery.
People are born, live and die.
They don't go anywhere because there is nowhere to go because they came from nowhere, spiritually speaking.
End of story.
gg
lol, I don't have a Maserati, just a Holden Astra, but I put the roof rack on myself, which I am proud of, I will miss carrying mine and my mate's surfboard.
But I'll keep the financial portfolio, I can buy another car ... and roof rack. Excellent surf in Heaven, I believe.
ANOTHER cynic. Don't spoil the fairytale GG!
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