Split Thread Scorpion's Spiritualism

[sadhatter]

What difference does the reason make, it is my belief and experience that having healing would help. It would lift her above her own negative state of mind. Healing cleanses the aura and charges it up with positive energy.

And following that advice will lead to at best a delay in getting real help. How it's this a good thing?

 

[Scorpion]

And following that advice will lead to at best a delay in getting real help. How it's this a good thing?

In my first reply to mstricky, I said the following.

You could of course seek medical advice, as they have medication that can help.

 

[Daylightstar]

In my first reply to mstricky, I said the following.

You could of course seek medical advice, as they have medication that can help.

That post can be found here.

Your first and most elaborate reply concerned BS. You deceptively added your quoted line above as an attempt at (clearly) false 'balance'.

 

[dlorde]

Yes! somebody up there, in the spirit world, gave me a five number win in 1998 by giving me the numbers by telepathy.

Yet there are many people who have had more than one 5 number win, and many people who've had bigger wins, without attributing them to spiritual interference; and all those wins fall into the range expected by the simple statistics of probability. There is no bump in the curve for 'spiritual' people.

To everyone but you it was a chance win; yet your desire to somehow feel special, makes it something else. We all get feelings that we're special - that's a natural part of having a sense of self, but most of us learn to accept that the results of probability and coincidence are a normal and expected part of life, and not something magical.

 

[sadhatter]

In my first reply to mstricky, I said the following.

You could of course seek medical advice, as they have medication that can help.

If i tell someone to eat rat poisson but to brush their teeth afterwards I'm still guilty of giving horrible advice.

You are in the same boat.

 

[sadhatter]

Tell it to little old ladys in Russia that were put in mental hospitals for believing in God. During Stalins time they were given aversion therapy in hospitals, but when they were finally released they went back to church.

I've got a better idea. Why doesn't God explain to them why he didn't personally stop their torment?

someone useless having your back sucks, someone useless and omnipotent is just adding insult to injury.

 

[sadhatter]

Yet there are many people who have had more than one 5 number win, and many people who've had bigger wins, without attributing them to spiritual interference; and all those wins fall into the range expected by the simple statistics of probability. There is no bump in the curve for 'spiritual' people.

To everyone but you it was a chance win; yet your desire to somehow feel special, makes it something else. We all get feelings that we're special - that's a natural part of having a sense of self, but most of us learn to accept that the results of probability and coincidence are a normal and expected part of life, and not something magical.

Also, some people win the lottery, lots of people believe in the supernatural, it would be more amazing if no one attributed this to non existant creatures.

 

[PixyMisa]

The psychics that I knew that had a reasonable amount of success, not 100% by any means, told me that they are not allowed (by a Higher Authority) to try to get riches for themselves or others.

This is what is known as special pleading. It's a logical fallacy.

The problem is that people think the rules for psychics and the rules are physics must be the same.

This is also special pleading.

If you believe absolutely that only the material world exists - and insist on the proofs that work only in the material world, then you are totally isolated from any possibility that you are wrong.

This is simply wrong. All you have to do is produce evidence. If you cannot produce evidence, then we are right by definition.

When it comes to human behavior, we do not follow a set of rules.

Yes we do.

I am still waiting for someone to tell me how a single cell can develop into an animal that can get up and run away from a predator within minutes of being born. How did that creature get the referential memories for its sight?

It didn't. That response is hardwired into its brain by its DNA. It's encoded in the DNA following a few billion years of evolution.

There is no way that such information is programmed into the DNA. If I am told scientists will find it, then I say do the math. Memory of a tree to avoid, memory of running zigzag, and so on - these require a huge amount of programmed memory brain cells.

Memories aren't encoded in the DNA. Patterns are.

Change a gene or two, and something big happens. How do you change a gene or two and the creature runs into the tree instead of a around it?

Change a gene or two, and most of the time there is no noticeable effect whatsoever. All of us are mutants at that level.

The memories are in the (reincarnated) souls that guides how the cells divide and arrange themselves

Nope. That's DNA.

and ultimately the memories in the brain.

Nope. That doesn't happen at all.

Sure 99.999% is physics. It is the 0.001 percent that makes the difference. That is why the supernatural is so elusive. Just guessing as to the percentages, except that they are not 100% and 0%.

See the link above. What you are suggesting is simply not possible.

 

[mstricky]

Manchester is a big place, but her GP should be the first call.

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Suicide/Pages/Getting-help.aspx

Thanks for the link it is very helpful

 

[thaiboxerken]

In my first reply to mstricky, I said the following.

You could of course seek medical advice, as they have medication that can help.

I believe you should seek medical help. You have delusions and believe in things that do not exist.

 

[Pixel42]

Thanks for the link it is very helpful

I have only just caught up with the last page or so of this thread and am relieved to see you post this. I hope you will take advantage of all the help that is available to you, from your family, your GP, the Samaritans, and any church you wish to visit. By all means take solace in your beliefs, and perhaps consider taking a break from trying to convince sceptics of them until you are feeling better.

 

[Innocuous]

I will only tell the absolute truth about whatever happens.

I wish you luck in trying to unlock some new human ability. That would be awesome! But don't ignore the warnings people have been giving you here.

The strength of your belief is not evidence. If you come back here and tell us about a detailed, specific vision of heaven and souls, and an unbearable brightness that was the burning heart of God, and you wept with joy as you felt, for a moment, the very pulse of the universe, ... well, that's dandy, but we can't do anything with it. People have visions and dreams all the time, and the brain is good at making stuff up and filling in details.

So as you explore, think about what you can do to demonstrate your ability to someone. Assume we want to believe you: we trust, sort of, but we definitely verify. You could be just one more of a thousand people with completely different views on the nature of the universe, each with their own visions and occult experiences. That does not mean you are wrong, but what evidence can you offer that sets your extraordinary ideas above all those other extraordinary ideas?

In other words, ask yourself, seriously: why would anyone believe me? "I'm not a liar" is one of the worst reasons you could give. If you start getting results, look to what you can objectively demonstrate. Because if all you have is what is in your head, then we can't see it. It gets messy when we try - I learned that the hard way.

 

[PartSkeptic]

The psychics that I knew that had a reasonable amount of success, not 100% by any means, told me that they are not allowed (by a Higher Authority) to try to get riches for themselves or others.

This is what is known as special pleading. It's a logical fallacy.

Logical fallacies are a set of rules for debating or arguing. The rules do not prove that a statement is necessary false. When you debate on the basis that only the material world exists, then it could be said that your subsequent logic might rely on a false premise.

When a person wants information on a subject, one goes to those who are qualified in that discipline. I am giving you the opinion of people who are qualified in that area. You can choose to believe, or not believe.

If I tell you that I had histoplasmosis, and my immune system was fully functional, the medical experts will tell you that that is not possible. One or two might admit that it might be possible, but would be extremely rare. So when I say that this happened to me and two others they would be extremely sceptical – but that does not change the truth of what happened.

The problem is that people think the rules for psychics and the rules are physics must be the same.

This is also special pleading.

See my answer above.

If you believe absolutely that only the material world exists - and insist on the proofs that work only in the material world, then you are totally isolated from any possibility that you are wrong.

This is simply wrong. All you have to do is produce evidence. If you cannot produce evidence, then we are right by definition.

Simply wrong – why is it so simple? Perhaps from a point of view of imposed limitations it might be. You are deciding to restrict yourself to a particular definition which suits your secular humanistic belief. Supernatural events are rare. True psychic ability is rare. And there is a huge amount of noise (fraud, mistake, delusion) of the sort that skeptics correctly identify.

Perhaps one day science will say, there appears to be a non-materialistic influence on living things, rather than discard results that appear to be in error because they do not fit the expected repeatability model. When it comes to science I agree with your model because it works. Your model cannot explain some strange happenings.

Physical evidence or repeatable proof is the mantra of the religion of secular humanists. You believe that you know the answers to what the Ultimate Reality is – and therefore you know what rules to apply to test other theories of the Ultimate Reality. Your absolute belief leaves no room for doubt.

When it comes to human behavior, we do not follow a set of rules.

Yes we do.

So sure! I may watch your referenced video on the Higgs Boson some time, but I can predict it will not answer the questions of the Ultimate Reality. Why are we here? What does it all mean?

I am still waiting for someone to tell me how a single cell can develop into an animal that can get up and run away from a predator within minutes of being born. How did that creature get the referential memories for its sight?

It didn't. That response is hardwired into its brain by its DNA. It's encoded in the DNA following a few billion years of evolution.

That is the materialistic assumption. Show me the proof.

There is no way that such information is programmed into the DNA. If I am told scientists will find it, then I say do the math. Memory of a tree to avoid, memory of running zigzag, and so on - these require a huge amount of programmed memory brain cells.

Memories aren't encoded in the DNA. Patterns are.

And you know this how? Just how much information can DNA store? And how does such information get translated into growing a brain, and making the brain grow with a bunch of pre-wired patterns. Proof please? Or are you making an argument by extension?

Change a gene or two, and something big happens. How do you change a gene or two and the creature runs into the tree instead of a around it?

Change a gene or two, and most of the time there is no noticeable effect whatsoever. All of us are mutants at that level.

Could be those genes affect the patterns you are talking about? Hard to test is it not?

The memories are in the (reincarnated) souls that guides how the cells divide and arrange themselves

Nope. That's DNA.

And science of DNA has ended the mind-body debate? It can tell us all which genes give a deer the “pattern” (which some scientists call a referential memory)? You sound like Alan Greenspan when he said the boom-bust cycle is a thing of the past because the economists have it all figured.

and ultimately the memories in the brain.

Nope. That doesn't happen at all.

You are 100% certain? How can a subjective person be certain of anything? Humans can only assume that some things are more likely than others on the basis of agreement – and even then they might not know the detail.
Remember the days when science only had a few small unknowns to tie up?

Sure 99.999% is physics. It is the 0.001 percent that makes the difference. That is why the supernatural is so elusive. Just guessing as to the percentages, except that they are not 100% and 0%.

See the link above. What you are suggesting is simply not possible.

That "simple" word again. Do you use that to infer that I must be dumb not to understand that I am wrong? And are you the authority on what is possible and what is not possible? And you can confidently predict (by extrapolation, I presume) that the situation will not change in the future?

 

[Scorpion]

Yet there are many people who have had more than one 5 number win, and many people who've had bigger wins, without attributing them to spiritual interference; and all those wins fall into the range expected by the simple statistics of probability. There is no bump in the curve for 'spiritual' people.

To everyone but you it was a chance win; yet your desire to somehow feel special, makes it something else. We all get feelings that we're special - that's a natural part of having a sense of self, but most of us learn to accept that the results of probability and coincidence are a normal and expected part of life, and not something magical.

You may have missed the post where I said I heard a voice tell me I had won the lottery one hour before the draw.

 

[Scorpion]

I believe you should seek medical help. You have delusions and believe in things that do not exist.

I believe you have narrow view of the world that is false, and debating with all you atheists has only made me realize I am right, and it brings back all the spiritual experiences I have had over the years and forgotten about.

 

[Pixel42]

You may have missed the post where I said I heard a voice tell me I had won the lottery one hour before the draw.

Everybody has premonitions. I've had many myself. A few happen to come true, and are remembered. The rest don't, and are forgotten. The question is: is the percentage that come true greater than would be expected to be the case by chance?

You say the voice told you you had won the lottery, and you had 5 numbers come up. Would you still have considered the premonition true if only 4 numbers had come up? That's a win too, right? How about three numbers?

About 30 million Saturday lottery tickets are sold every week. There is about a 1 in 54 chance of winning something, and a 1 in 55,000 chance of having 5 numbers correct. That means on average there are about half a million winners of whom over 500 people have 5 numbers correct every single week. Is it really so astonishing that you happened to be one of the latter that particular week?

No single lottery win could ever be evidence of the paranormal, even if it is preceded by a premonition. Now if you got these messages regularly and each time you were a winner, then you could begin to build a case that there is something extraordinary going on. But this turns out to be just what you're told not to expect to happen. Neither do I expect it to happen, for different reasons.

 

[Pixel42]

I believe you have narrow view of the world that is false, and debating with all you atheists has only made me realize I am right, and it brings back all the spiritual experiences I have had over the years and forgotten about.

If you are determined to base important conclusions about the nature of reality on subjective experiences that have been proven to be wholly inadequate to support them we can't stop you, of course. We can only shake our heads sadly.

 

[SusanB-M1]

If you are determined to base important conclusions about the nature of reality on subjective experiences that have been proven to be wholly inadequate to support them we can't stop you, of course. We can only shake our heads sadly.

As I am doing right now.

 

[Scorpion]

I've got a better idea. Why doesn't God explain to them why he didn't personally stop their torment?

someone useless having your back sucks, someone useless and omnipotent is just adding insult to injury.

The spiritual philosophy behind it is that God does not interfere in human affairs. He is simply the source of everything and he waits for us to return to him by our own efforts. We are here to act as we see fit and reap the consequences. Its called cause and effect, and it works through karma and reincarnation. The spirit world teaches that we will live countless lives in a cycle that will eventually lead us to spiritual perfection and unity with God.

 

[Daylightstar]

You may have missed the post where I said I heard a voice tell me I had won the lottery one hour before the draw.

Look Scorpion, you have a deeply irrational mindset, you'll invent voices to support your irrational beliefs, at the time or afterwards.

Your claim is worth exactly nothing.