Split Thread Scorpion's Spiritualism

[Gilbert Syndrome]

Christianity, on the other hand, is largely benign.

History is your friend, mate. Well, it can be, you just have to want to know about it, which you quite obviously don't. Selective attention and all.

The Christianity you think of today, for the most part, was lifted from preexisting "pagan" religions. They picked and chose what they wanted to keep, and threw everything else on the fire, ironically, the pagans had lit that fire, lol.

 

[Scorpion]

When did they give you the winning numbers?

1998

 

[Scorpion]

The victims of the inquisition, crusades, wirch hunts, and current/recent groups like the Lord's Resistance Army would beg to differ about Christianity being benign.

Most of what you listed took place hundred of years ago, and it may have been done by people calling themselves Christians, but they were going against the teachings of Jesus himself. There is one much quoted verse in which Jesus says he came to bring a sword. But that is so against all his other teachings of turning the other cheek and loving your neighbours, that it might seem to have been inserted by early scribes trying to justify the crusades.

On the other hand Muhammad openly incited his followers to behead unbelievers. There is a verse which says " strike their necks, and cut off their finger tips also" Obviously it means strike their necks with a sword. It is the sort of verse that ISIS take literally and act upon.

 

[kali1137]

Most of what you listed took place hundred of years ago, and it may have been done by people calling themselves Christians, but they were going against the teachings of Jesus himself. There is one much quoted verse in which Jesus says he came to bring a sword. But that is so against all his other teachings of turning the other cheek and loving your neighbours, that it might seem to have been inserted by early scribes trying to justify the crusades.

On the other hand Muhammad openly incited his followers to behead unbelievers. There is a verse which says " strike their necks, and cut off their finger tips also" Obviously it means strike their necks with a sword. It is the sort of verse that ISIS take literally and act upon.

So excuses and free passes for the religion of your choice, no excuses double standard for the one you don't like. Bad versus in the bible must have been added by the sneaky fake Christians so they could be evil or deliberately misinterpreted, But Muhammad - nothing misinterpreted and says exactly what it says. Do you think maybe you should practice by saying these things out loud before you hit reply?

 

[Scorpion]

I don't know why all you atheists are down on me. Richard Dawkins is on my side.
Here is something he just posted on twitter.

"Some people fight Islamic “radicalisation”. Let’s fight Islamic belief itself. Replace it with atheism. Follow Rana Ahmad's example"

 

[Fast Eddie B]

...and it may have been done by people calling themselves Christians, but they were going against the teachings of Jesus himself.

Probably a fair number of Scotsmen among them!

 

[Scorpion]

I just tweeted Richard Dawkins with a link to this page, telling him I quoted him and inviting him to join the debate.

 

[The Shrike]

I just tweeted Richard Dawkins with a link to this page, telling him I quoted him and inviting him to join the debate.

Oh boy! Did you include anything about the spirits telling you that you were going to win a small lottery in 1998? Dawkins can't resist stuff like that!

 

[Darat]

A bit like how you're now enslaved to these weird set of nonsensical rules you've created to explain the day-to-day oddities of your mind, which you feel that you have to do for fear of spending an eternity being punished by the spirits for failing to do their bidding? lol.

Not just him failing, he has stated that we are all held collectively responsible for everyone else's bad deeds. So until there is no badness at all we are all screwed. Plus part of being bad is talking about the bad things that people do, pretty hard to educate people that being bad is bad if you can't talk about the bad thing someone is doing.

 

[Darat]

1998

Seems like they failed then.

 

[Scorpion]

Not just him failing, he has stated that we are all held collectively responsible for everyone else's bad deeds. So until there is no badness at all we are all screwed. Plus part of being bad is talking about the bad things that people do, pretty hard to educate people that being bad is bad if you can't talk about the bad thing someone is doing.

Never mind all that, I have decided to write a book. I have learned what atheists think and been subjected to criticism, so I know something about trying to make my points clear. Now I feel ready to write down all my experiences. I have a title for my book. Its called 'schizophrenia and then some' In it I am going to name names, and accuse the police of persecuting me, and I am going to accuse one officer of falsifying his report to justify breaking my wrist. Here is how my book begins.

In 1984 I remember thinking, well so much for George Orwell, where is big brother and the thought police. Orwell was just a miserable old cynic: How naïve I was then, and how little I knew. But just four years later in 1988 my awakening began. Circumstances conspired to bring me to the attention of the police. I first became aware of it when two officers in the street looked at me, and one said to the other "he is under investigation". I laughed under my breath, and thought "Mr plod, what does he know". At that time I could not possibly have been prepared for the crap storm that was about to come down on me, or how long it would go on, or how much damage it would eventually do me. I was to discover that psychology in the hands of the police was a cruel weapon of control and manipulation. I was to learn that the British police had imported personality profiling from the FBI. The likes of John Douglas and his book ' Mind hunter' and his British counterparts like Professor David Canter with his book ' criminal shadows. Also Paul Britton and his book ' Jigsaw man'
These men are clinical psychologists, not doctors who have taken the hypocritic oath to do no harm, then went on to study and become psychiatrists who spend their lives trying to help the mentally ill. Psychologists are another school who use their knowledge without scruples. It was nice of some of them to write books about their craft, and in doing so reveal the extent of their own egos and their failings. In fact Paul Briton says in his book he cannot afford to make mistakes as it could destroy some ones life. But he then went on to profile Colin Stagg who was accused of the Wimbledon common murder of Rachel Nickel based only on Britton's profile with no evidence. He devised a plan called the honey trap in which he tried to get Stagg to admit the murder to an undercover female police officer.He also showed his willingness to publish lurid details of the murder of Jamie Bulger who was killed by two ten year old boys. These details that I do not think were ever published in the newspapers because they are too horrible, are in his book plain to see for his poor mother to read. I hope to God she has not read it.

Well that's a potential opening of my book, whadaya think of it so far?

 

[Scorpion]

In case my last post is seen as taking my thread off topic, my book will deal with spiritualism and the occult in another chapter. But I do not want to start it with a subject that will destroy my credibility from the outset. I want to lead the reader gradually to a point where they might be willing to read on, even though I take them out of their zone of beliefs. Incidentally I will probably quote some of your criticisms of my beliefs in my book.

 

[Darat]

In case my last post is seen as taking my thread off topic, my book will deal with spiritualism and the occult in another chapter. But I do not want to start it with a subject that will destroy my credibility from the outset. I want to lead the reader gradually to a point where they might be willing to read on, even though I take them out of their zone of beliefs. Incidentally I will probably quote some of your criticisms of my beliefs in my book.

You do realise that everyone's posts on here are copyrighted to the poster?

 

[Scorpion]

You do realise that everyone's posts on here are copyrighted to the poster?[/QUOTE

Just exactly how are you going to enforce that ? I may use their general criticism without using their user names. In any case I am about to name a police officer who broke my wrist and accuse him of falsifying his report. I am also going to name other people who play a part in my story, without evidence of what they did. If they read my book and try to sue me for slander, I will be glad to face them in court.

 

[Pixel42]

Such a book might actually serve a useful purpose in educating the general public about the symptoms of schizophrenia. I doubt it would convert many to spiritualism.

 

[Darat]

You do realise that everyone's posts on here are copyrighted to the poster?[/QUOTE



Just exactly how are you going to enforce that ? I may use their general criticism without using their user names. In any case I am about to name a police officer who broke my wrist and accuse him of falsifying his report. I am also going to name other people who play a part in my story, without evidence of what they did. If they read my book and try to sue me for slander, I will be glad to face them in court.

You can't even get that right.

 

[sackett]

Such a book might actually serve a useful purpose in educating the general public about the symptoms of schizophrenia. I doubt it would convert many to spiritualism.

Or it might bore them into a coma.

 

[Scorpion]

You can't even get that right.

Picky, picky, have you no destructive criticism of page one of my book?

I would ask do you have any 'constructive' criticism, but that's not your style is it.

 

[sackett]

Well Scorp, let's consider how tiny your single topic really is: yourself.

I me mine myself and repeat, then repeat, repeat again, and so on. That's tedious even when an interesting person does it. When you do it, jumpin' jezuss what a stultifying drone!

Try to understand. Your beliefs, your opinions, and especially your compulsive self-fascination are worthless. If you heard them from another person, you'd dismiss them yourself.

Stay close to help, and seek it if you can clear your mind enough to do so.

 

[Scorpion]

Well Scorp, let's consider how tiny your single topic really is: yourself.

I me mine myself and repeat, then repeat, repeat again, and so on. That's tedious even when an interesting person does it. When you do it, jumpin' jezuss what a stultifying drone!

Try to understand. Your beliefs, your opinions, and especially your compulsive self-fascination are worthless. If you heard them from another person, you'd dismiss them yourself.

Stay close to help, and seek it if you can clear your mind enough to do so.

You can put me down all you want, but it does not invalidate what I have said about personality profilers.