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…Without ‘supernatural elements’ this type of conditioning would be unhealthy
and is the one most beloved of insecure, manipulative minds
intent on turning their victims into ‘Apes of Faith’.
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Which is, perhaps, one of the reasons why the ‘supernatural’
is here so heavily stressed.
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A radiant visage and countenance
is such a mainstay of supernatural narrative
that it must have some basis in real experience…
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…As is telepathy.
There are though, also, some people who are very good at this.
In which context, ‘reading one’s mind’
is not the same as, ‘hearing one’s thoughts’.
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The praeternaturally lengthy life-spans in this
and other biblical stories
probably have more to do with an editorial attempt
to ‘square’ original myth with historical time-frames
than with history, which is not to say
that people a very long time ago
were not a lot bigger and/or lived a lot longer than us.
Both are possible.
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Halving the given ages of Abraham and Sarah would work
and still preserve the integrity of the story.
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But, already, we start to see how belief and faith
are practically inseperable…
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Only faith gets us across the minefield unscathed!
A question is: can one separate faith from self-delusion?
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Faith has verifiable products, self delusion doesn’t… 😉
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Can you provide an example?
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One can have faith in a particular outcome, which transpires… 😉
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What about the faith in all the particular outcomes that do not transpire? Would those be delusions?
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Apparently… 😉
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