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I don't find it remarkable. I just find it pathetic. These people who boast most about their relationship with God and their intuitive knowledge of the truth are often so into their own egos that "if I think it, if I experience it, it happened dammit!" The invisible God they claim to worship is their own infallibility, and then they wonder why they look ridiculous to the rest of us. Skeptical people seem to be, on average, more intelligent than the true believers, or at least they are more willing to make use of what intelligence they have to question even themselves. I don't consider this a coincidence. I don't think the voice in my head is the voice of God, no matter how many bells and whistles and fireworks the voice may light up. The true believer does, and the more shiny fireworks the more he believes. Or as Woody Allen once said, "I noticed that when I was talking to God, I was talking to myself." The true believer never catches on. Seems to work the same way whether the subjective experience involves an encounter with Jesus or the Grays or radio signals from the CIA. As a culture, we humor sick people who get signals from Jesus and medicate those who get signals from the CIA. Too bad for those who get their signals from Jesus and thus have a much lesser chance of ever hitting bottom and getting healed. Too bad for our society which is seriously harmed by the evil that true believers such as Falwell do.




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Long rambling short, I do find it remarkable that people can claim something so grand and extraordinary to be universally true when its source is YOU and YOUR experiences.

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