tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045470200571732417.post5525272967421715256..comments2023-09-30T06:42:31.235-07:00Comments on Advocatus Atheist: Demon Haunted World: An Atheist's ViewTristan Vickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05348780254008374268noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045470200571732417.post-60562206169531584312010-01-06T23:30:38.875-08:002010-01-06T23:30:38.875-08:00Tristan,
This makes all too much sense. I used to...Tristan,<br /><br />This makes all too much sense. I used to blow of the argument that Paul suffered from any kind of neurological disorder. Even in my deconverted state I would always kind of laugh it off but the way you explain it makes so much more sense to me. It is all there plain as day. <br /><br />Also as I have explain in earlier comments I too was once afflicted with these sort of dreams. This story makes me hold more confidence in the fact that my religion fed into my already wild and always wandering imagination. Thanks!<br /><br />DevinDevin Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17813524079960692662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045470200571732417.post-52195849248656916812009-12-06T07:51:06.559-08:002009-12-06T07:51:06.559-08:00Yes, and to take this further....
I have worked w...Yes, and to take this further....<br /><br />I have worked with many mentally ill people, brain injuries, and people with many types of neurological disorders. A prevalent theme, especially among the mentally ill, is hearing the voice of God. Many of them believe that they have been chosen, to be prophets, etc. They constantly hallucinate that they see angels, demons, etc. <br /><br />Rewind the tape. Go back to biblical times. Without the knowledge of pathology, it becomes very to easy understand why people interpreted this phenomena the way that they did. Now, we know the signs, get them on meds, and they stabilize. Back then, their delusions appealed to them, and they believed differently.tinkbell13https://www.blogger.com/profile/03322413631736929191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045470200571732417.post-42860894953842231082009-12-06T04:44:35.247-08:002009-12-06T04:44:35.247-08:00Feeno-
I think you missed my point. Paul seems to...Feeno-<br /><br />I think you missed my point. Paul seems to have been an epileptic, and the corroboration of Ananias healing his "blindness" seems to fit the pattern of 'Frontal Lobe Personality Disorder." <br /><br />Besides, this would explain the miracle in naturalistic terms. If it was a migrane or seizure related temporary blindness, then Paul's vision would have come back to him regardless. Since they did not know this, they would have believed it to be a miracle. Low and behold, the blind see again. This seems to support my theory better than a "mystical" or "miraculous" you speak of.<br /><br />Also, the metanoia (Paul's conversion) involved a "vision" of the risen Christ. The word "vision" being very important, because as I stated, waking dreams and visions are common with this disorder. Now if he would have seen the "actual" risen Christ instead of simply a "vision" it would have been sound support for the divine. But it was likely nothing more than a seizure produced "vision."<br /><br />It does not end here, however. Another frequent, or at least common sympton of Temperal lobe epilepsy is hypographia (i.e., the feeling or a need to write excessively, which I do have and I doubt you can deny that Paul didn't have it when the evidence of his numerous epistles suggests otherwise). <br /><br />So we have the symptoms, sporadically will see "visions" of a religious or supernatural kind (which I used to a lot), next becomes obsessively interested in religious or philosophical ideas and concepts as discovered by the nuerological scientist Geshwen (indeed, I have become intensely fascinated by religion), and commonly develops hypographia. <br /><br />So now the that Paul is diagnosed with the same thing as me, we can be pretty confident in our guess that he had what I do. But, the way you could establish that Paul didn't have what I do is by finding a scientific reason why it would be impossible for Paul to be an epileptic. If you can't do that, then it seems that the most reasonable explanation beats out the unfathomable one.<br /><br />Just saying. Have a good one!Tristan Vickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05348780254008374268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045470200571732417.post-67641740917844268452009-12-05T10:44:18.387-08:002009-12-05T10:44:18.387-08:00T
W'dup bro
The Apostles Paul's conversi...T<br /><br />W'dup bro<br /><br />The Apostles Paul's conversion had some corroborating evidence. (Ananias)<br /><br />Science took us to the moon? Maybe?<br /><br />I'm glad your you no longer have seizures, I hope the same will happen for Mrs. Vick.<br /><br />Dueces, feenofeenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07483769284197614547noreply@blogger.com