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Back in the day why would people say you were being possessed by a demon when people would have seizures

MethDozer · M Best Comment
No other explanation available at the time. At the time religion was generally accepted and without any evidence based explanations it seemed the most simple.

It is most likely it is the mystery of seizures, birth defects, mental illnesses that led to the creation of demons and devils as the most simple explanations for such things. Not vice versa.
Trucker334 · 46-50, M
@MethDozer Omay, clearly you’re just going to continue to say you’ve provided facts and never give me one example. I have no problem with you defining liberal differently than me. It was never my intention to get into the history of the word liberal. I was only ever referring to Those in the media and Hollywood in the US who claim to be liberal and also define religion in the same ignorant way that you divine it. Nothing like a conversation where someone starts using the word fact with out any facts being presented.
MethDozer · M
@Trucker334 The fact is science and reasoning is what is diminishing your precious little stories. People are more intelligent and critical these days. It is not a conspiracy.

Again, we cannot expect the still religious in the modern world to be able to recognize facts and use reasoning. We are talk about the same group that harbors a disproportionate amount of evolution deniers and flat Earthers.
Trucker334 · 46-50, M
Blah blah blah. Just saying things and using the word fact again. God’s in no danger. If every Christian dies, His plan will continue until it’s complete. The Bible correctly predicts that people will grow worse and deny their creator. I’m in no position to stop God’s plan. @MethDozer

indyjoe · 56-60, M
Fear and ignorance. It's been that way throughout the history of humans. It's how mythology and religion actually came into being, people coming up with beliefs that helped them cope with, live with, and "explain" things they couldn't understand or comprehend.
indyjoe · 56-60, M
@Trucker334 "That's BS but whatever helps you sleep at night"...sure as heck sounds like an attack to me. And now you're saying that I made such claims as fact to brush off thousands of years of other experiences? Get real. You read what I did actually say and saw what you wanted to see. I did no such thing, I only stated what I think and believe, and not once do I say or even imply that anyone else's was BS. I believe this "conversation" has come to a close.
Trucker334 · 46-50, M
indyjoe · 51-55, M
“Fear and ignorance.” It's been that way throughout the history of humans. It's “how mythology and religion actually came into being,” people coming up with beliefs that helped them cope with, live with, and "explain" things they couldn't understand or comprehend.
Trucker334 · 46-50, M
Okay. You were being reasonable and polite. 🤔
Trucker334 · 46-50, M
Because you were flopping around on the floor breaking shit and they didn’t have brain scans.
Thelonewolf1993 · 26-30, M
@Trucker334 i feel like that had to be the case life before we could get MRIs and brain scans seems so crazy to think about now that we have so many medical advances
Trucker334 · 46-50, M
Yep, we don’t realize how much we have that most humans never did and some still don’t. @Thelonewolf1993
Thelonewolf1993 · 26-30, M
@Trucker334 something else i was thinking about is all the information we are starting to learn about concussions now
wakanda4eva · 26-30, F
I mean..yeah true sceintifically the nerve impulses are causing a person to seizure, but what is causing the nerve impulses exactly..to act so weirdly..hmmm 🤐
Now, they just say it if they vote for a liberal government!!
Trucker334 · 46-50, M
Correct. @EugenieLaBorgia
Miram · 31-35, F
Back in the day? Believe or not, some people still say it even about me.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
Because those same people had no knowledge of anatomy and how the body works.
But had the added bonus of being ruled/scared to death by the church !
And anything not explainable was 'the work of the devil'.
The day’? 😳
Like little house on a prairie?

 
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