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Re: I believe because of miracles
« Reply #116 on: May 04, 2013, 10:22:45 AM »
Not to be an alarmist, but did anyone besides me start to think that Andrew might actually be ...a bit off? Some of his posts, when skimmed en mass start to sound a little like actual delusions and/or hallucinations. It reads to me as if he actually hears "god" speaking to him. He clearly sees "signs", some literal even.

I've been taking a lot of psychology this semester so it could just be my overactive imagination too, I freely admit that. And I'm still on my first cup of coffee. IDK, it's just a sense I got skimming the thread.

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I was beginning to think I was the only one who saw that.
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Re: I believe because of miracles
« Reply #117 on: May 04, 2013, 01:03:01 PM »
I'm still waiting for my damn pony. ;)

Perhaps you should be praying to Epona instead.  ;)
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Re: I believe because of miracles
« Reply #118 on: May 04, 2013, 05:32:21 PM »
Not to be an alarmist, but did anyone besides me start to think that Andrew might actually be ...a bit off? Some of his posts, when skimmed en mass start to sound a little like actual delusions and/or hallucinations. It reads to me as if he actually hears "god" speaking to him. He clearly sees "signs", some literal even.

I've been taking a lot of psychology this semester so it could just be my overactive imagination too, I freely admit that. And I'm still on my first cup of coffee. IDK, it's just a sense I got skimming the thread.

Nope. Your analysis was good.
I was beginning to think I was the only one who saw that.

It is interesting.  A lot of Christians talk about "serving God."  Andrew doesn't serve his god.  His god serves him!  Andrew calls the shots, and his god accommodates his whims, bails him out when he screws up, keeps him from being bored during joy rides in the car, picks up tabs for restaurant deadbeats who have no means to pay the bill, fixes his car for him, and generally getting him out of messes. 

Andrew's god is a sort of all-purpose fairy god father, who caters to his whims and cleans up his messes.  Ironically, this god is a very very different god from the handsome, helpless, weepy lord, who took the Ecuadorian girl on a tour of the afterlife.  And Andrew is the one who posted that video.  Hard to believe they are even part of the same religion, honestly. 

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Re: I believe because of miracles
« Reply #119 on: May 04, 2013, 05:36:57 PM »
Perhaps I should have watched at least a bit of the video first... well, probably not, but yeah, it does certainly sound like Andrew's God is disproportionately helpful.

I actually tracked two threads in a row, and the tether seems a bit looser than I had thought a day or two ago.
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Re: I believe because of miracles
« Reply #120 on: May 05, 2013, 03:26:18 AM »
If you don't believe in miracles watch this

I did.

Andrew, you are aware that that was an - alleged - reconstruction of what he says happened?  That the swirly bits over her eyes were added there by computer trickery?

Why aren't you posting the film of the ACTUAL healing?  I suspect because no such footage exists, because no such thing ever took place.....
Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid.