This post prompted me to start this thread:
I'm a definite skeptic myself, but that was not always the case. It used to be that I believed in god, angels, miracles, etc. And I was always so envious of those who claimed to have experienced these things first hand.
It took me a while to realize that I just wasn't built that way. Which is to say, I've had the same sort of "weird" experiences as anyone else, but I'd immediately write them off as tricks of the eye, being over-tired, or just me dreaming. For example, many people who experience sleep paralysis (also known as "the Hag" or "the Devil sitting on your chest") think they've had a supernatural experience. But I know better, so when it happened to me, I couldn't see it as a magical experience.
Skeptics don't have supernatural experiences because their minds immediately explain things using science. Believers explain things using their faith, so the funny little things our minds and bodies do to us all take on a greater significance in their minds.
Originally posted by Flyndaran
It took me a while to realize that I just wasn't built that way. Which is to say, I've had the same sort of "weird" experiences as anyone else, but I'd immediately write them off as tricks of the eye, being over-tired, or just me dreaming. For example, many people who experience sleep paralysis (also known as "the Hag" or "the Devil sitting on your chest") think they've had a supernatural experience. But I know better, so when it happened to me, I couldn't see it as a magical experience.
Skeptics don't have supernatural experiences because their minds immediately explain things using science. Believers explain things using their faith, so the funny little things our minds and bodies do to us all take on a greater significance in their minds.
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