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Spirituality, Religion And The Great Deceit by annex1: 12:15pm On Jan 23, 2019
for every thread about someone undergoing or believing to undergo unusual difficulty, dreams or strange physical manifestations, I marvel at the comments mostly. Among these opinionated lots are the Religious who know and are certain it is a supernatural effect, deliverance, prayers, communion with God is usually their recommendation. Then comes the lot who are always opposite to the former. Quick to dislodge such belief as the mere idea of spiritual attack is unfound and mere fallacy. According to them, this condition is just "in the mind" - No one can threaten you metaphysically, No one can inflict a jinx on you, no one can leave his space and infringe yours, No one man has all that power, in fact there are no wickedness on high places.

These different opinions can be very confusing to the original poster, adding more confusion to his predicament - poor him. As of many of these undocumented cases (on Nairaland), it isn't clear what measures some of these people eventually take. Did they eventually solve the problem by believing it is "in the mind" or seeking help from a higher Deity?

Follow up comments by the pro Religious to these latter groups are usually "Well, i just pray you never see evil in your life". That is a good prayer to someone anyways. But then again, why should i "pray you never see evil?" so you can continue misleading and confusing people with your "in the mind" judgement?. Misleading people that spirituality does not exist?

Do you know exactly what people go through when they experience strange manifestations, in dreams for example. I've also read some low level "reasons" for strange dreams by these second group. Talk about it has something to do with the state of thought/ consciousness before sleeping etcetera. Even the westerners have calculated the probability of thunder striking in same place twice. How else can you explain a dream, happening, same way, every night, consistently for years? Calculate the probability of that accidentally occurring. Or someone being hit by an animal each time in her trimester, and wakes up to a miscarriage. Consistently. Calculate that probability.

Furthermore, i have read a lot of threads from Atheists here and i must say the only intelligent thing about your writing is the grammar you employ.That we may need to consult the dictionary for few of your sentences never validates your article. One particular area that piqued my interest however was your stance about "Atheist not needing to provide proof of a higher deities non existence" but Believers do. Well, i am not here to argue with anybody or why i believe in a higher Deity, but i will tell you why i do - In clear simple terms. And no, not by my personal experiences yet (and i have a plethora of them).

Look at the Animal kingdom, there is Strata, Hierarchies. Liken it to a food-chain. Autotrophs > Herbivores > Carnivores > Saprophytes (if you may). In essence, the strength/energy/authority is increased from left to right. STRATA/HIERARCHY. Who made this rule? i don't know (I honestly do not know). But they live by it.

Lets extend this to humans, babies > teenagers > adults. left to right rule once again. STRATA. In your office, executive > Supervisor > Manager > Regional Manager. STRATA/HIERARCHY. By further extension, society > local counsilor > state governor > President > Monarch. STRATA and HIERARCHY again. who enforces this rule? how did it begin? (i honestly don't know) Why aren't we all just equal? (search me). But we live by it, the animal kingdom lives by it. So therefore, we cannot deny the existence of hierarchy in our existence. The next level after Man must be supernatural (Maybe aliens) then gods, to whatever ultimate higher Deity you believe in.
Then i can hear you ask, why don't we get to see (physically) the next level hierarchy. This is where metaphysical comes to play. I use the term metaphysical because i think that is a common ground. I should believe Atheist believe in metaphysics. Self awareness, "being one in the mind", astral travel, premonition etc. If you even believe that, then you obviously KNOW, THAT YOUR PHYSICAL BODY/BEING IS NOT ALONE IN THIS JOURNEY/WORLD.
So therefore, there are spiritual entities (which may reside in you) of higher HIERARCHY / STRATA than humans.

Higher spiritual deities with no respect to levels/Power/Good or Bad can be your budda (Buddhism), God (Christianity), ALLAH, cherubs etc. Each of these Deities owe certain answers to their believers (if they request). Answers as to purpose on earth, worship etcetera.

Again, when people allude some strange physical manifestations to sicknesses. Say the popular one Nairalanders use "Schizophrenia". There is a thin line which is often blurred between Schizophrenia and Metaphysical. Let me explain. When someone experiences hallucinations, vocal continuous dialogues in this case (with people not visible to the human eyes) which are symptoms. You'll agree the brain is telling the patient things are being said (openly) to him, the patient doesn't reply sub-consiously (in the mind), the patient responds as if it was a physical discussion. This is greatly metaphysical because third parties only hear one side of the discussion, only the patient's. Even in India, the supposed medical capital of the world, medical communities are beginning to use spirituality known as "Religious coping" as an approach to solve mental illness (Schizophrenia).

I know a lady who later in life was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She had all the symptoms. But i know all that is just stories because in the very early stages of her condition. This lady will be as far as 45 m (beyond hearing range) seeing two people discussing and can tell what they are talking about. I kid you NOT. She knew what people discussed which was physically impossible. We investigated and found these discussions were in sync. Later on, her sickness/manipulations began terribly and it was termed Schizophrenia.

Or why someone locked in a room with ordinary "mental illness" can discern whether her food was blessed before being served thereby not eating it. And if it wasn't hence eating it.

Please let us not talk about what we have little knowledge of hence not be deceived. The greatest deceit of the Devil is to try to convince people he does not exist.

Deep down, If you feel there is something wrong and something needs to be done. Then something needs to be done.

We are not alone in this world. There is a hierarchy, a superior being. Who is yours?

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Re: Spirituality, Religion And The Great Deceit by NormalThing: 7:46am On Jan 24, 2019
I like how you put forward your argument. Points and observations.
Are you for real about the two cases?
Re: Spirituality, Religion And The Great Deceit by annex1: 4:22pm On Jan 25, 2019
Yes I am certain of the cases. I witnessed them. I mean how else, physically or scientifically can you explain those cases? So when unbelievers troop in to say they do not believe it because they didn't witness it. Why shouldn't we hope they see evil so they'll stop misleading others.
Re: Spirituality, Religion And The Great Deceit by mindsta(m): 2:06pm On Jan 27, 2019
Op, tnks 4 dis 1daful piece.I jst pity those dat say dere is notin lyk a Supreme Being n dere r no spiritual entities.... Dis so called atheist knw d truth but r trying 2 deny it in d hope dat denial will save dem 4rm judgment or such tinz afflicting dem.. 'Only a fool says in his heart dat dere is no God'

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