You joined our merry crew in October 2014 yet made your first post just this evening, some seventeen months later. Seems . . . somewhat . . . how shall I say . . . odd. Don’t you think?
But you’re an investment banker by day?
Without God, we lose our loved ones in the afterlife.
Mathew 12:30. He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.
I find this to be a most loving thing that Father God and His Son do for their people.
Genesis 25:8. Then Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, and old man full of years , and was gathered to his people.
I pride myself on being different from the norm.
Pride is a sin. We are here to glorify God, never ourselves.
Married and retired with two kitty cats.
andros
March 3, 2016, 5:02am
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No psychology, I’m just wondering what practical effect your experiences have on your life–this life, of course, not the next one.
Would you mind providing specifics? How does your relationship with and obedience to God change your behavior? What do you do in your life to be like Jesus?
Fallen angels have the same powers as angels in heaven. They also see through the many eyes of the Holy Spirit. And can see into the future as well.
Wrong again.
Almost 10 years ago, they were already explained, and many times before this article from Skeptical Inquiry was published too.
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/nonmysterious_orbs
Most orbs are simply round or oval white shapes, though they may take a variety of forms. There is not one blanket cause for all orbs; many things can create the phenomena, ranging from insects to dust. In a series of experiments, I was able to create orb photos under a wide range of circumstances. The easiest way to create orbs is to take a flash photograph outdoors on a rainy night. The flash will reflect off of the individual droplets and appear as dozens of white, floating orbs. (The effect is most pronounced in a light rain, though even a little moisture in the air can create mysterious orbs.) CSI Senior Research Fellow Joe Nickell (1994), in his own studies, found that flashes reflecting back from camera straps are a common source of orbs, as are unnoticed shiny surfaces that can reflect a camera flash.
Not content to simply declare my orb a sign of the supernatural, I searched harder for a solution. Sure enough, closer investigation revealed that the orb was in fact a tiny piece of dust or lint that clung to the remnants of a spider web (see figure 2). It was a very unusual place for a web, and, had I not traced the long, nearly invisible line to its arachnid anchor, I would have rejected a web as an explanation. But it was a very long strand and just far enough away from the walkway that all but the tallest passersby would not run into it. It was very difficult to see, and only apparent when a dark color was held up in the air behind it for contrast—or when caught in a flash photograph.
Orbs may seem otherworldly because they usually appear only in photographs and are usually invisible to the naked eye. They are often unnoticed when the photo is taken; it is only later that the presence of a ghostly, unnatural, glowing object is discovered, sometimes appearing over or around an unsuspecting person. To those unaware of alternative explanations, it is no wonder that orbs spook them. Most ghost investigators will admit that at least some orb photos are of mundane phenomena and are not necessarily ghosts. Still, they insist, there must be some orbs that defy rational explanation, though none has yet been found. But even if that is true, no one has proven that anything but photographic and optical mechanics can create orbs.
I heard the voice of God the other day. But then I decided to swap out my Motörhead CD for something more progressive and mellow.
Count_Blucher:
Its funny. I started reading the OP but got so bored I fell asleep.
My wife was watching one of those musicals only she likes in the other room… and while I was asleep, I had the wildest dream…
cue dream sequence special effects
*I dreamed last night I got on a big white 757
And TSA will drag you outta here
Now I sailed away on that little 757(Quite Truly Pissed!)
For the people all said
Toss your ass right out at 50,000 feet
Now as I laughed at those passengers on a 757(So Ve-ry Bored!)
For the people had said
No one wants to hear your book of fear
Funny. I was actually thinking of the real version today for some reason–maybe Jesus wanted me to. Lyrics .
Wait, was it a cargo plane? A Fed-Ex jet?
So, how could I tell the difference between someone who thinks they’ve had a vision of god but was actually just seeing fallen angels and someone who has actually had a vision of god?
Enjoyed it that much, did you? Nice.
Anyway, if you weren’t in hell while you were witnessing all these souls that WERE in hell, where were you?
simster:
first one looks like a blown up hair folicle
I like the ‘motionless’ part of the second picture - becuase, otherwise, the picture would be in motion and it would be a video of the holy spirit.
THe third one is a fricking painting -
How does either of the first two uniquely, and objectively, identify the objects pictured as the ‘holy spirit’ ?
They’re both – not moving…
How do you determine when to use red letters and when to use blue letters?
I want to better understand what you mean here. I assume that “spirit” is a synonym for “soul”. You seem to be saying that we are simply evil and can only be not-evil by the means you prescribe.
So, if that is what you mean, please explain why you think we (our spirits) are evil by nature. And try to do better than the “original sin” premise, because that one fails on the face of it.
Once you have done that, explain what this “evil” is, and try to do it objectively, in a way that does not rely on God to define its opposite.
Thanks much.
Can He or can He not hit a curveball?
I can only seem to view a tiny thumbnail of the picture which could be anything, but looks a bit like a picture taken in low light with a moving light source in it that could be a flashlight.
This one is exactly the same as hundreds of ‘orb’ photos touted by ghost and UFO enthusiasts. It is typically caused by illumination of dust motes in the air, being captured out of focus (bokeh) blobs of light. The patterning/texture of the blobs is caused by the properties of the lens system.
Here is a painting of a unicorn:
