Paranormal Flexibility

[JanieDough]

Entitled “Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths,” the report points out that many Americans are now choosing to “blend Christianity with Eastern or New Age beliefs” and that “sizable minorities of all major U.S. religious groups” said that they have had supernatural experiences, like encountering ghosts.




For the first time in 47 years of polling, the number of Americans who said that they have had a religious or mystical experience, which the question defined as a “moment of sudden religious insight or awakening,” was greater than those who said that they had not.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/opinion/12blow.html?_r=1

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Now why do you keep posting these things...

 

[Peter Parka]

For the first time in 47 years of polling, the number of Americans who said that they have had a religious or mystical experience, which the question defined as a “moment of sudden religious insight or awakening,” was greater than those who said that they had not.

Yup! There's a lot of Americans who can be described as clinically insane.:surrender

 

[JanieDough]

Now why do you keep posting these things...

i do???

Yup! There's a lot of Americans who can be described as clinically insane.:surrender

lol...oh yeah. but only americans

 

[itsmeJonB]

im insane baby

 

[JanieDough]

im insane baby

:usa::laughat:

 

[Peter Parka]

i do???





lol...oh yeah. but only americans

Yup, us Brits have evolved faster and really arn't impressed by religion and guns any more.

 

[JanieDough]

Yup, us Brits have evolved faster and really arn't impressed by religion and guns any more.

i guess you guys have seen it all....maybe that's why you're so boring...:24::24:

 

[Peter Parka]

i guess you guys have seen it all....maybe that's why you're so boring...:24::24:

Boring is good and safe.

 

[Burntblood]

I'm crazy as fuck but I've never had a paranormal experience.

 

[BlackCherry]

To rip off some shtick for a moment...

Yup! There's a lot of Americans who can be described as clinically insane.:surrender

Yup, us Brits have evolved faster and really arn't impressed by religion and guns any more.

Boring is good and safe.

In other words...this whole "I'm saying this tongue in cheek but really mean it we Brits are superior...Americans are inferior" crap is really getting tired. We have our suckiness so do you...blah blah blah carry on...

Sorry for the hijack...but I had to say it.

 

[JanieDough]

In other words...this whole "I'm saying this tongue in cheek but really mean it we Brits are superior...Americans are inferior" crap is really getting tired. We have our suckiness so do you...blah blah blah carry on...

Sorry for the hijack...but I had to say it.

lol but we do it to the canadians, the brits do it to us an the aussies do it to everyone....

it's just fun!

I mean Peter slept in a wet spot last night so I don't think he REALLY thinks he's superior :24::24:

 

[JanieDough]

Now why do you keep posting these things...

but wait - i want to go back to this - I do?

 

[BlackCherry]

lol but we do it to the canadians, the brits do it to us an the aussies do it to everyone....

it's just fun!

I mean Peter slept in a wet spot last night so I don't think he REALLY thinks he's superior :24::24:

It wasn't really a thwack at Pete. I have this same exact post almost identically on a couple of other boards. I know it's the humor, etc. it just caught me on the wrong day.

On topic though, I think the reason people are leaning more towards the spiritual and less the religious is at the end of the day people see religion as a man made thing that is used to manipulate...where as spirituality is still about faith, belief, etc.

 

[JanieDough]

On topic though, I think the reason people are leaning more towards the spiritual and less the religious is at the end of the day people see religion as a man made thing that is used to manipulate...where as spirituality is still about faith, belief, etc.

:clap:clap

well said.

 

[Peter Parka]

To rip off some shtick for a moment...














In other words...this whole "I'm saying this tongue in cheek but really mean it we Brits are superior...Americans are inferior" crap is really getting tired. We have our suckiness so do you...blah blah blah carry on...

Sorry for the hijack...but I had to say it.

Relax, its a joke.