Not it's not and your religion is fake, whatever it may be. I am paging through the posts of the Gathering of the Morons, and I've lost all my faith in the human intellect. "God is real! You don't know the things I've seen!!!" Why do evangelical christians use exclamation points online. Like I'm going to see your enthusiasm and want to convert?
I threw dirt at a car then a bird shit on me. KARMA IS PROVEN!!!!
The Quran says that babies start as a clot! PRAISE ALLAH!!!
Do you people know how to think critically?
Do you even know the scientific method? Before you answer with the usual moronicism of "THERE IS SOOOO MUCH SCIENCE CAN'T PROVE AND THERE IS SOOOO MUCH SCIENCE THAT HAS BEEN PROVEN WRONG," let me spell it out for you.
Growing up in Chile, there is still much in the way of native american culture. We still have many tribes around who don't interact at all, and a lot of their civilization is based on religion. Much of it is similar to voodoo, involving sacrifices. I was heavily interested in the occult and would believe anything, just because I wanted it to be true. This was also around the time when my witch prejudice started, because I thought the idea of white magic was stupid and self defeating. That is, ironically, one thing hard line fundamentalists and serious devil worshippers are in agreement on.
Anyway, at this point, if I heard of any kind of ritual I would do it, I was in a mode of throwing shit to the wall and seeing what stuck. And a lot of it actually did work. I'm playing soccer, and getting my ass handed to me, and I say "Ok guys, I'm praying to step up my game, now you'll see" and I turn around and start 360 degree windmill kicks and half mile sprints. That kind of thing happened a lot. I could do all sorts of little magic tricks like telling people what number they were thinking of, having someone write something on a piece of paper, burn it and I'll tell them what it was, or I could walk through a crowd of people looking for me and they wouldn't see me, crap like that.
I got in a fight with a kid at school and I cursed him. He broke his arm the next day. When that worked, I did it to a teacher who had always given me problems, and he was killed by a fucking drunk driver.
Yes.
When that happened, I said "Ok, wait a minute. You're just some kid, you can't kill people with your mind. And even if you could, you're reckless, slow down and think about what you're doing for a while." So that was really the genesis of my study of spirituality and religion.
And I did. I studied extensively. I found to, I would imagine, the surprise of nobody, that all the stuff I had been doing had no basis in anything genuine. It was either verified as bullshit, garbled third hand information, I did it wrong, or something. I was a hack, basically. And yet, much of it had worked, I couldn't deny that. So this caused me to delve into exactly how far human potential goes. What I found was that the things I was doing were a combination of perfectly natural phenomina, coincidence, selective memory, and skill. Yes, there is a skill to it.
You see it in faith healers, for example. It is, actually, easier to hypnotize a crowd of 100,000 than to hypnotize one person. I could tell you all about how and why, but that's another disucssion. Lots of religious leaders do it. Hitler did it. And few if any of these people realized it. They could genuinely believe in their "power". The same thing with psychics. You can subconsciously cold read someone and not even realize you're doing it. To you, it feels like genuine psychic impressions, and if you truly believe you have these powers, it only reinforces it. It's a continuous cycle, you see.
These tricks, combined with the other factors, often lead to what appears to be genuine "magic" (I will spell it in the common c only tense from here on out, for the sake of convenience). I threw myself into how far I could take myself, as a normal, regular human. All the things I gave demons credit for, I could duplicate while in my mind, I knew there was nothing happening but myself, and even more. To this day, I can read minds, remote view, posses, perform telekinesis and lots of things, and I learned it all myself, with no spiritual aid or influence. I'm not a master at any of those things, but I can do them to the point where I can make people swear I have powers.
That's the problem with this bullshit. You myopic simpletons rely too much on perception. If they experience something first hand, and if they believe it, nothing you say can change their mind. "I don't care, I know what I experienced. Every other psychic in the world is fake, but I know this is real." It happens all the goddamn time. And if you get someone who has learned to do this stuff but really believes they have power, of course they just feed off of each other.
You people are idiots. Every last one of you.
I threw dirt at a car then a bird shit on me. KARMA IS PROVEN!!!!
The Quran says that babies start as a clot! PRAISE ALLAH!!!
Do you people know how to think critically?
Do you even know the scientific method? Before you answer with the usual moronicism of "THERE IS SOOOO MUCH SCIENCE CAN'T PROVE AND THERE IS SOOOO MUCH SCIENCE THAT HAS BEEN PROVEN WRONG," let me spell it out for you.
Growing up in Chile, there is still much in the way of native american culture. We still have many tribes around who don't interact at all, and a lot of their civilization is based on religion. Much of it is similar to voodoo, involving sacrifices. I was heavily interested in the occult and would believe anything, just because I wanted it to be true. This was also around the time when my witch prejudice started, because I thought the idea of white magic was stupid and self defeating. That is, ironically, one thing hard line fundamentalists and serious devil worshippers are in agreement on.
Anyway, at this point, if I heard of any kind of ritual I would do it, I was in a mode of throwing shit to the wall and seeing what stuck. And a lot of it actually did work. I'm playing soccer, and getting my ass handed to me, and I say "Ok guys, I'm praying to step up my game, now you'll see" and I turn around and start 360 degree windmill kicks and half mile sprints. That kind of thing happened a lot. I could do all sorts of little magic tricks like telling people what number they were thinking of, having someone write something on a piece of paper, burn it and I'll tell them what it was, or I could walk through a crowd of people looking for me and they wouldn't see me, crap like that.
I got in a fight with a kid at school and I cursed him. He broke his arm the next day. When that worked, I did it to a teacher who had always given me problems, and he was killed by a fucking drunk driver.
Yes.
When that happened, I said "Ok, wait a minute. You're just some kid, you can't kill people with your mind. And even if you could, you're reckless, slow down and think about what you're doing for a while." So that was really the genesis of my study of spirituality and religion.
And I did. I studied extensively. I found to, I would imagine, the surprise of nobody, that all the stuff I had been doing had no basis in anything genuine. It was either verified as bullshit, garbled third hand information, I did it wrong, or something. I was a hack, basically. And yet, much of it had worked, I couldn't deny that. So this caused me to delve into exactly how far human potential goes. What I found was that the things I was doing were a combination of perfectly natural phenomina, coincidence, selective memory, and skill. Yes, there is a skill to it.
You see it in faith healers, for example. It is, actually, easier to hypnotize a crowd of 100,000 than to hypnotize one person. I could tell you all about how and why, but that's another disucssion. Lots of religious leaders do it. Hitler did it. And few if any of these people realized it. They could genuinely believe in their "power". The same thing with psychics. You can subconsciously cold read someone and not even realize you're doing it. To you, it feels like genuine psychic impressions, and if you truly believe you have these powers, it only reinforces it. It's a continuous cycle, you see.
These tricks, combined with the other factors, often lead to what appears to be genuine "magic" (I will spell it in the common c only tense from here on out, for the sake of convenience). I threw myself into how far I could take myself, as a normal, regular human. All the things I gave demons credit for, I could duplicate while in my mind, I knew there was nothing happening but myself, and even more. To this day, I can read minds, remote view, posses, perform telekinesis and lots of things, and I learned it all myself, with no spiritual aid or influence. I'm not a master at any of those things, but I can do them to the point where I can make people swear I have powers.
That's the problem with this bullshit. You myopic simpletons rely too much on perception. If they experience something first hand, and if they believe it, nothing you say can change their mind. "I don't care, I know what I experienced. Every other psychic in the world is fake, but I know this is real." It happens all the goddamn time. And if you get someone who has learned to do this stuff but really believes they have power, of course they just feed off of each other.
You people are idiots. Every last one of you.