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Warpy

(111,254 posts)
5. No, those are all ordinary
Wed May 1, 2013, 05:00 PM
May 2013

and are kept in that irrational corner of the brain behind "break glass in time of sheer panic."

The extreme religious experiences would be seeing visions and getting direct messages from gawd (hallucinating) and succumbing to mob psychology and babbling, shaking and falling over. There is even "holy anorexia," the preferred form of bucking for sainthood among ultra religious women.

The worst form of crazy is god crazy because the culture takes such a hands-off approach to so much of it.

I think hell just froze. [View all] cleanhippie May 2013 OP
what constitutes "extreme" AlbertCat May 2013 #1
Easy. trotsky May 2013 #2
That's what I was thinking! cleanhippie May 2013 #3
Or, other religions besides his. n/t Mr.Bill May 2013 #4
That exactly (nt) LostOne4Ever May 2013 #6
No, those are all ordinary Warpy May 2013 #5
I had a discussion with a Lutheran Pastor Gore1FL May 2013 #7
If she can't tell which parts are literal, how does she know what to believe? FiveGoodMen May 2013 #8
That is close to what I was asking. Gore1FL May 2013 #9
What i don't get LostOne4Ever May 2013 #10
:) plus the word 'begat' repeated over and over .. Phillip McCleod May 2013 #11
Like Doyle said in Slingblade... awoke_in_2003 May 2013 #13
Didn't someone post an article defacto7 May 2013 #12
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