So, I asked Andrew Tamm, who filled my Stream with a hundred (sarcasm there) animated gifs and cat pictures to remove me from whatever Circle he has me in where he posts the animated gifs and cat pictures. It was either that or unfollow him and I didn't see any reason to unfollow him. Me asking https://plus.google.com/112885755521259735422/posts/78dwnvvgh4p Then he plusses me onto Public posts of animated cat gifs : https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/EuuR1tnU3vJ https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/8r6Grcm2Jpj https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/74PgSu6iL2s Then one of his friends (or Circlers) starts plussing me into posts of animated cat gifs : https://plus.google.com/u/0/107120198886093172821/posts/gRW9JhWLs5T Don't get me wrong, I'm all about sarcasm and messing with people, but this seems sort of childish to me. Am I the only one who thinks so? So far I have only blocked people who have overtly spammed a thr...
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The brain is a tricky computer because it is so influenced by bio-chemical reactions, often beneath our own consciousnesses.
I've had some amazing experiences with "Jesus" and "The Holy Spirit" and unless you've been there, you cannot imagine the power of these experiences, they are sometimes over whelming.
Add to that the desire to be unconditionally loved and accepted, it's a powerful draw, used successfully by so many cults.
I don't doubt the story or her sincerity, I've witnessed it before and talked to people out of many different lifestyles that came into belief in the Jesus and the mythology surrounding him.
Mike Doygun Or perhaps for frontal lobe epilepsy ;)
Dave Blair If she now believes that a true understanding (orthodox view) of scripture means that a person cannot be both gay and Christian, must she not also believe that the earth is 6000 old. A perfect example of destructive degenerative power of a religion.
As a mere hypothesis, and beside mental illness that could explain some cases, I think it is related with the foundations of their atheism:
People that are first skeptical, and thus atheist, will rarely become believers because the inner reasons they have for being non-believers won't change easily. On the other hand, those that are atheist just because they parents were, or because they hate some religion, or something that way that are mostly founded on external influences, could be attracted by a sect more easily than the firsts.
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