MadMez
March 10, 2004, 06:30 PM
I came across this the other day, and found it happily fits my opinion that those that subsrcibe to any belief, be it in a diety, theory or fantastic beast or being, do so for one of two reasons.
1. There's something connected differently in their minds, causing this conviction to gell and cause them to be convinced of this notion despite any and all evidence to the contrary. In other words they're ill.
2. They're pretending for the sake of gain. For example TV Evangelists who line their pockets and use other's beliefs to become rich. In other words thieves and liars.
Article (http://www.potomacnews.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WPN/MGArticle/WPN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031774176288&path=!news)
I see no difference in this woman's conviction that what she was doing was divinely inspired, to any other person who would act in such a strange way. Like a poster who would come here and be given pages of well constructed argument only to ignor it or flee. They're either "not quite right" or winding us up.
I can't help think medicine will come up with a pill, a "Little Voices in the Head" pill, the LiVitH (tm) pill can be popped and it corrects the hay-wired synapses to the point where the court can tell if you were just ill, or telling a whopper. I'd be one of the first to buy a pack and pop them into the local Church fountain. Getting carried away now...OK forget this last bit.
Anyway, in the last 1 1/2 years of reading here, I have yet to see anything that would demonstrate otherwise. The post is not intended in anyway as an insult to theists, for I am sure most of them are at the mercy of this malady.
1. There's something connected differently in their minds, causing this conviction to gell and cause them to be convinced of this notion despite any and all evidence to the contrary. In other words they're ill.
2. They're pretending for the sake of gain. For example TV Evangelists who line their pockets and use other's beliefs to become rich. In other words thieves and liars.
Article (http://www.potomacnews.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WPN/MGArticle/WPN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031774176288&path=!news)
I see no difference in this woman's conviction that what she was doing was divinely inspired, to any other person who would act in such a strange way. Like a poster who would come here and be given pages of well constructed argument only to ignor it or flee. They're either "not quite right" or winding us up.
I can't help think medicine will come up with a pill, a "Little Voices in the Head" pill, the LiVitH (tm) pill can be popped and it corrects the hay-wired synapses to the point where the court can tell if you were just ill, or telling a whopper. I'd be one of the first to buy a pack and pop them into the local Church fountain. Getting carried away now...OK forget this last bit.
Anyway, in the last 1 1/2 years of reading here, I have yet to see anything that would demonstrate otherwise. The post is not intended in anyway as an insult to theists, for I am sure most of them are at the mercy of this malady.