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Xeno-x,
That very subject came up in last night's episode of "House". I'm not sure if you're familiar with it, but Hugh Laurie plays a curmudgeonly doctor who is openly skeptical of God and faith. He has a patient, an 18 year old boy who is an evangelical faith healer and naturally he comes to the hospital when he has a seizure. He claims to hear the voice of God, but has a tumor. However, in the course of the episode he also helps put a woman's cancer into remission, so there's room for speculation.
He did say something very close to what someone said below, that if someone talks to God, it's called prayer, and millions of people do. If God talks to you, it's called mental illness.
I can't say that God has talked to me or that I've had visions, more like energy emanations, warm feelings of wellbeing, and a surge of peaceful calm about the heart, when I know that there is a higher entity who cares. IMHO, it is God, because no one other than an entity of supreme benevolence would care, certainly not spirits, who are said to be mischievous and malevolent.
posted by
Blanche.
on April 26, 2006 at 6:37 PM
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I f you talk to God
it's called prayer. If God talks back to you, you're schizophrenic.
posted by
JasonScyte
on April 26, 2006 at 6:31 PM
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besides the nov 1999 isSue being ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
veddy interrresting
posted by
Xeno-x
on April 25, 2006 at 7:17 AM
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Xeno-x - I feel that all visions of this nature are derived directly from
the chemical composition of the human brain.
There is commonality amongst all visions of diety or religious icons that should make us all suspicious. That being the subject must have prior knowledge of the specific entity that they envision. Muslims do not have visions of the Virgin Mary for example. You would find this interesting HERE
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gomedome
on April 25, 2006 at 6:48 AM
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