In Reply to: Re: To Mike posted by susie on September 26, 2006 at 23:39:41:
Susie said:
what happened to respecting others practices? What you call demons are another person's deity. IMO the demons you experience are in your own imagination. Why do you cry demons when someone expresses a different belief to you?
Susie:
First, define “respect”, so that we may begin on the same page, at least; your apparent definition only seems to favor your own point of view; susie.
I actually used to worship those “deities”, and had an on-demand experience every single time. I later EXPERIENCED that they are, indeed, demons. Period. The end.
My experience is not at the mercy of your mere argument which comes from within your completely untenable belief system of anti-theism.
As “good” Will Hunting said, “Do you like apples?”
What you wrote both made me laugh, and made me feel like I was in a play about trying, just trying, to not offend a jihadist Muslim, who cannot NOT be offended; it’s their “bread and butter” of initiating conflict, which is their ultimate goal, so they can kill all who don’t believe in their plans for a worldwide caliphate; after all!
Wow! LOL!!!
As Acheick would say, “Wah-hahahahahahahaha!”
Although I am sorry you decided to take offense I don’t really regret that what I said bothered you; how could I, as I am only expressing my belief about my own experiences, and from my point of view, you, as an anti-theist, both surprise me that you don’t equally take offense to both Christianity and Yoga, and do not surprise me, because you continually appear to me, by the nature of your posts, to be living in your own imaginary world, with your beliefs.
That kind of puts us at a standoff, where we will have to agree to disagree.
It does not, however, put you in a legitimate position from which you may construct your own make-believe world ABOUT Christianity for ME.
My experience, which you lack, tells me different, and you just do not GET to decide what it is I should believe. You are the disrespectful one; not I.
I would gladly and easily debate you on the existence of God, and the “weak hypothesis” status of anti-theism. I am qualified, since I myself used to be a supposedly “informed” militant atheist.
But that is not what you do; typically; you “hit and run”; every single time, so far. That says quite a lot more about you, than it says about the validity of what I believe.
I value you as another human being, with whom I share the [ast experience of the cult, and as someone God really loves, but I cannot say that I value your opinion; vast and all-encompassing (but without actual knowledge and experience) though it may pretend to be.
As I told MG, I have the authority of experience. You don’t.
Respectfully, OT2