Posted by Lou Pilder on October 8, 2014, at 9:39:36 [reposted on October 14, 2014, at 19:45:44 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Lou's reply-lytandrk, posted by Lamdage22 on October 8, 2014, at 8:15:58
> > > Lou,
> > >
> > > How do you differentiate a revelation from a psychotic experience?
> > >
> > > Just because you find evidence on the internet for your claims, doesn't make them more real. You find evidence for virtually every claim a human could ever make on the internet. No matter how unlikely or ridiculous.
> > >
> > > Yes, psychiatric drugs sometimes, even often are involved in school shootings and they likely are a contributing factor in some of these cases. But i would argue that most of these people must have been very resentful, or mad, before they received treatment, it just didn't come to the surface.
> > >
> > > I have had what you would call a revelation as well, and it is false by all rational evidence. I do not wish to go into detail. Let me just say that acting according to this revelation was disastrous. Also, me acting according to your revelation was even more disastrous.
> > >
> > > Furthermore, some people would argue that there are no supernatural forces in this universe, neither inside nor outside of human beings. These people would see any vision, revelation or any other type of spiritual/religious experience as a delusion.
> > >
> > > Others would argue that not every experience perceived as a revelation is in fact a revelation. Humans are predisposed to error.
> > > And although you stand ontop of a mountain and look down on all of us, it doesn't mean that you are an exception.
> > >
> > > I am offended that you think of us so lowly, that each and every one of us is a potential killer, because we are not. Maybe you should come down from your mountain back to earth.
> > >
> > > I am open for discussion, but i insist that these terrible things happen (mostly) because of humans. It is humans choice to continue to take a medication that makes them hostile, isnt it? And isnt it also their choice to act on that hostility rather than to seek help?
> > >
> > L,
> > You wrote about a subset of people that consider those that receive revelation in a spiritual sense to be delusional
> > I ask:
> > Are those people atheists?
> > Lou
> >
>
> Yes.
>
L,
You wrote,[...it is human(')s choice to continue to take a medication that makes them hostile, isn't it?...].
Would it be their choice if they were addicted to the drug that makes them hostile?
Lou
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