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When I came to I realized I blacked out only for 4 seconds. Went to the doctors to get an MRI and a CT scan done nothing came up that would be alarming.
Go get a pych evaluation and a prescription for anti pychotics.
originally posted by: 3n19m470
originally posted by: borntowatch
I am sure you have been told before in this thread but on the off chance you havnt.
God wants you to love Him because He loves you.
God doesnt need you going on a spiritual scavenger hunt for Him, thats absurd.
Jesus said on the cross, "It is finished" that means everything necessary has been accomplished.
You really want to know what God wants from you, read the New Testament.
Ever notice that it is generally nut jobs and cult leaders who hear from god directly, there is a reason for that, guess
Hmmm... I'm not saying you're wrong here, but, didn't the Bible say that young men would have visions during the end times?
Also, didn't the very books you directed him to, the New Testament, contain prophecies about events to come? Wouldn't that mean that everything that needs to happen has not happened? I do not intend to challenge your knowledge on the subject, but, could there at least be an inkling of a possibility that you might have misinterpreted Yeshua/Jesus' words? In other words, are you human? (Humans are capable of being wrong... about anything and everything)
originally posted by: SlapMonkey
a reply to: ViciLaw
Remember...what you experienced isn't religion, it was something else. I'm an atheist at heart, but if there is a god, I can pretty much guarantee that religion has bastardized its message a long time ago.
Don't feel a need to find religion--if you prefer to be spiritual, have at it, but societal pressure to be a part of a religion is probably the devil's work
originally posted by: LotToTell2
a reply to: ViciLaw
How do you know you are not a victim of CIA black ops
Or even malevolent aliens
All that matters is what they want you to do and if this has dark undertones that would later get even darker or immoral
You better be suspicious
originally posted by: ViciLaw
It said that many illnesses will be cured when mankind learns to understand the real nature of the Universe. This is why there is no cure for so many illnesses and at times they are not even Earthly. Also it said that many space travelers carry viruses and that is why Earth is a quarantine zone. We are hosts to many viruses and illnesses that lay dormant, also Jessus didn't really heal. He basically moved the infection from one vessel to another.
It's very confusing to understand, I'm sorry
originally posted by: NthOther
In a word, bulls#. Atheists generally know more about Christianity than Christians do, but again (and I feel like I'm beating a dead horse), there is more to atheism than Christianity.
originally posted by: ViciLaw
He or she says that within every being big and small is this tear drop crystal thing, also that many can not move past the darkness for it is all around us. Also that freewill is to see if we can come as a whole, as one race, one people and work together as one. For what separates us are the walls that we build and that we some how infect one another. I don't know what it means by infect?
originally posted by: 3n19m470
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
Your name wouldn't happen to be Bartholomew would it? That would certainly be an odd coincidence.....
Why?
Discovery of the Holy Lance[edit]
Meanwhile in Antioch, on 10 June an otherwise insignificant priest from southern France [34] by the name of Peter Bartholomew came forward claiming to have had visions of St. Andrew, who told him that the Holy Lance was inside the city.[35] The starving crusaders were prone to visions and hallucinations, and another monk named Stephen of Valence reported visions of Christ and the Virgin Mary.[33] On 14 June a meteor was seen landing in the enemy camp, interpreted as a good omen.[35] Although Adhemar was suspicious, as he had seen a relic of the Holy Lance in Constantinople,[35] Raymond believed Peter. Raymond, Raymond of Aguilers, William, Bishop of Orange, and others began to dig in the cathedral of Saint Peter on 15 June, and when they came up empty, Peter went into the pit, reached down, and produced a spear point.[35] Raymond took this as a divine sign that they would survive and thus prepared for a final fight rather than surrender. Peter then reported another vision, in which St. Andrew instructed the crusader army to fast for five days (although they were already starving), after which they would be victorious.
Bohemond was skeptical of the Holy Lance as well, but there is no question that its discovery increased the morale of the crusaders. It is also possible that Peter was reporting what Bohemond wanted (rather than what St. Andrew wanted) as Bohemond knew, from spies in Kerbogha's camp, that the various factions frequently argued with each other. Kerbogha of Mosul was indeed suspected by most emirs to yearn for sovereignty in Syria and often considered as a bigger threat to their interests than the Christian invaders. On 27 June, Peter the Hermit was sent by Bohemond to negotiate with Kerbogha, but this proved futile and battle with the Turks was thus unavoidable. Bohemond drew up six divisions: he commanded one himself, and the other five were led by Hugh of Vermandois and Robert of Flanders, Godfrey, Robert of Normandy, Adhemar, and Tancred and Gaston IV of Béarn. Raymond, who had fallen ill, remained inside to guard the citadel with 200 men, now held by Ahmed Ibn Merwan an agent of Kerbogha.
Battle of Antioch[edit]
A 13th-century depiction of battle outside Antioch from William of Tyre's Histoire d'Outremer, in the care of the British Museum
On Monday, 28 June, the crusaders emerged from the city gate,[33] with Raymond of Aguilers carrying the Holy Lance before them. Kerbogha hesitated against his generals' pleadings, hoping to attack them all at once rather than one division at a time, but he underestimated their size. He pretended to retreat to draw the crusaders to rougher terrain, while his archers continuously pelted the advancing crusaders with arrows. A detachment was dispatched to the crusader left wing, which was not protected by the river, but Bohemond quickly formed a seventh division and beat them back. The Turks were inflicting many casualties, including Adhemar's standard-bearer, and Kerbogha set fire to the grass between his position and the crusaders, but this did not deter them: they had visions of three saints riding along with them: St. George, St. Demetrius, and St. Maurice. The battle was brief and disastrous for the Turks. Duqaq deserted Kerbogha and this desertion reduced the great numerical advantage the Muslim army had over its Christian opponents. Soon the defeated Muslim troops were in panicked retreat.