Thread: Tis the season...deja vu anyone?
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Old 12-05-2008, 08:27 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Sir Dillon View Post
Emphatically declaring that the earth is the center of the universe and created in 6 days, much less being less than 10-15k years old is hardly a metaphor...among other ridiculous assertions.

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On the other hand many people have claimed to have "numinous" experiences, experiences of the presence of God -
Many schizophrenics...among other mentally disturbed, claim the same thing
First point- only the literalists claim the bible as factually, individually, true. I view the bible as metaphor, and I think so do many people. Subjective again. I think it's quite useful as metaphor, at which the outlandish claims need not be "reality".

Second- it's not only schizophrenics that have numinous experiences of deity. I haven't had it happen often, but it has happened on occasion. It's quite interesting.
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