You chose to hear God in your head?
in a way, yeah. i chose to want a relationship with him...to know him, and it happened. i choose what i do with myself in regards to that relationship, and i choose understanding and truth above all things. that's not an easy choice.
But still this doesn't resolve the inconsistencies in what you have said, that 'law is law', but then it's your choice too?
well let me dumb it down for you. we have traffic laws in this society right? but you can ignore them and drive however you want anyway if you choose to. you might have to pay, and you might end up killing someone or yourself.
Why do you get so angry when questioned about this? Can't you accept that you exhibit the symptoms of schizophrenia, and therefore it's very reasonable for anybody reading your claims to think you are suffering from it? Especially when you have not sought a disgnosis for such?
Really Lori, go get help.
i'm not angry, my response was appropriate. first in regards to the adoration of masturbation that the typical atheist argues the right to have, which they do have the right to have (this is me being a smart ass). but more relevant i think is that it's so easy for you to offer up this completely unfounded theory that everyone who has experienced spiritual phenomena is schizophrenic, and everyone who believes in god is just stupid. i'm not the only one in the world who's received messages from god in various forms. i'm not the only one who has heard his voice. people all over the world have had experiences like mine or even much more trippy than mine has been. i am entirely healthy. i live in the real world, where i hold a responsible job, take care of myself and a home and other people around me. i have great relationships with people and have many people who love me, who if they thought i was sick, would have my ass in the hospital in a second no matter what i said about it. you don't think it's odd that none of the people i interact with every day of my life think and say that i am a very grounded and sane person?
yes, there was a time in my life several years ago when i went through something that literally blew my mind, and what i had to say about it, and my reaction to it, startled people around me and even scared me for a while. it's not simple to reconcile an experience that's spiritual with the material world around you. it's frustrating. but since then, i have found a way to reconcile it. it makes sense, it has meaning, and coming out the other end of it, i am a stronger, more capable person who has more peace and stability than i ever had before it happened. does that seem like the normal response to mental illness to you?
i will reiterate, from what i know of mental illness and schizophrenia specifically, it's not a condition that appears for a short time, provides meaning in the real world, that you recover from, and end up better off because of.
furthermore, i'm not sure that those who hear voices that tell them bad things, and produce an ill or insane effect in those people, aren't experiencing a spiritual phenomenon as well. seems to me that there are bad spirits as well as good. it also seems to me that there is something to be said for what you ask for, and what you make of it. if you want to be tortured, if you want to think the world's out to get you, or there is some vast conspiracy against you, if you want to be fed lies and believe it, and allow them to shape your life, then i believe those desires will manifest.
i don't tell you to seek help from a flippin' priest because you're an atheist do i?
