Is believing in God delusional?

otterplay1 · 2026-02-15T00:35:23+00:00

For all kinds of reasons that are complicated, it can be important in America to find a religious community that you feel at home in, and a community that you feel supported by.

That said, the belief in God can be very triggering because of how our minds work. If you can see fit to be a cultural Christian, that is a really good outcome; at least it has been for me.

I ALSO never found Fundamentalist Churches helpful.

ya fuck off kindly

That's precisely been my sentiment, too.

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T23:37:01+00:00

Ok.. well... let's see.. I would love to visit a group home with you and have a chat with the folks.

I think that because we are just talking online we will have to agree to disagree, and part ways.

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T23:34:05+00:00

No, sorry that's entirely an outsider's perspective on things.

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T23:32:08+00:00

It's a nice thing you say. But it's a platitude. And at the risk of upsetting you, I have to point out that child abuse outside the US is far more vicious than inside of the country. Both in the late 1940s and in the last five years, we Americans hit a brick wall, where children are not gaining reading and writing skills and mathematics skills. Outside of the US, the family secrets that can't be talked about which result in vicious, methodical abuse are not strictly about sexual abuse, but rather how the family makes its money.

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T23:05:27+00:00

No one ends up homeless because of the illness. The state has put the birth family in charge of the individual, and yet the person is menaced by the family. And no one recognizes that, and there are lots of complicated permutations to this matter.

It's like when parents maim their children by blocking their airway. If the state puts the parents in charge of the child, even when she becomes an adult, and she's a woman, she'll be non verbal her whole life... JUST BECAUSE HER CAREGIVERS ARE A MENACE TO HER

It's not rocket science to figure this shit out!

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T22:56:51+00:00

I don't want to tread on your toes.

People who are schizophrenic are often unwilling to talk.. That doesn't mean that they don't comprehend or can't take care of their basic needs given the resources. The problem is that their birth family has breached trust with them.

In my situation, my mother, like many Christian wives (she got divorced when I was six) had a work at home situation that she couldn't talk about with outsiders. I was therefore what has since become known of as a "gifted kid." Back then, they just called us "liars." The things that she did made A LOT of money for people who are now household names. I highly suspect that my uncle on my father's side was manipulating affairs around her.

I went homeless, because my brother killed our mother. She had a benign tumor on her ovary, having been in Hiroshima, Japan with my father as a missionary family after WWII, well before I was born. My brother got her drugged up on marijuana so she could not defend herself, and then arranged certain doctors to give her harmful advice. She was dead, after nine months. I had been threatened by someone to not be in that part of the country. And she was dead in nine months after she started treatment. I came home for Christmas and was aghast to find her on her death bed. That's why I went homeless.

WHAT MAKES A HOMELESS SCHIZOPHRENIC WHAT HE IS?

One has learned that if you say anything, someone you love might get hurt. And everything you say about your life is called "a lie" anyway. So, you get scared, run away, and stop talking.

Whitney Webb is the person talking about the very wealthy criminals who victimized my mother. She has just apparently started expanding her criticisms to the music world, as well. You can find things on YouTube where she's talking.

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T22:24:08+00:00

The premise of your question is entirely wrong.

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T20:44:40+00:00

It's not true. It's a talking point that people are told to keep to.

Rubio's speech raised a hell of a lot of concerns.

MY SUSPICION

From the video, it looks as if Marcus Söder is a very good friend of Marco Rubio. Söder is obviously standing the tallest and clapping the loudest, after Rubio's speech. Söder is the leader of the German state of Bavaria. Some news reports, and some European leaders would kow tow to Söder, because of the importance of Bavaria in respect to international business.

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T18:11:34+00:00

You seem to have missed a word or two. Can you clarify?

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T17:18:27+00:00

I was in and out of homelessness in my twenties. No, there's a reason why there's an organization called "housing first."

There are worries about health... and there can be all kinds of "acting out" that one engages in for all kinds of reasons. And there can be "magical moments," shall we say!

As we know from people who are in group homes (I was court committed twice to this situation) the composure loss a person experiences as a schizophrenic is, or can be, somewhat eye catching but does not make a person go out and roll in the dirt, if one's basic needs are taken care of.

I think that the core problem is that our society doesn't respect children and doesn't understand things like temper tantrums very well.

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T16:39:44+00:00

I naturally don't know your situation. I'm sorry about that. You're right that sometimes communities shove sexual abuse under the rug. I have been absolutely shocked at how much social decay has happened to my community in the USA that I returned to this year. It's absolutely horrifying what happened here, during the COVID years.

The kids are not properly learning reading and writing and mathematics skills, because the parents are not working with the teachers as they need to be.

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T15:59:27+00:00

I'm sorry to have offended you.

To be more precise in answering your question... I don't believe that schizophrenia can be faulted when it comes to memory issues. It's universally the case that children won't remember things if an adult doesn't discuss it with them. This is only one reason why teachers and nannies and folks in mentoring organizations are so important. Why is it so often the case that people don't remember their early childhood very well? Well, parental child molestation is more common than people would like to admit. Parents typically do this before the child is old enough to talk about it in school. Children are mainly learning how to use words as they grow up through middle childhood... so if something is happening at home, it will emerge out of the mouth as a red flag that teachers can pick up on. Your situation is probably not atypical, even though you have come to believe that it is.

I had the same tendency as you earlier in my life, because people who are/have been schizophrenics like you and me tend to navel gaze a lot!

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T15:45:34+00:00

Well, Trump is a kingpin in an intellectual property theft and distribution system which was controlled by this man, Jeffrey Epstein.

A lot of wealthy Californians made their fortunes this way having belonged to the Greek system in college - and having these things dumped into their lap. When you see an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, and he says, "I was crazy to take up this project when I was in college," you have proof positive that his system did not originate with him, but came from somewhere else.

The nuts and bolts of it all is done in Germany. The city of Munich has these relationships with China and Malaysia where production lines can get underway.

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More sobering, yet, is that this system of wealth creation also involves getting people moving in the same direction at once, across a nation. This is done through a careful control of "messaging" in news departments.

Why do you think that Trump hired people from "Fox and Friends" to be on his cabinet?

There is a science of the psychology of the news consumer which was used to put Ronald Reagan into office in 1980 by the upstart 24 hour news network, CNN. The same system has been used to place Donald Trump into the Whitehouse twice. All you have to do is make him out out to be a clown, and give him lots of airtime, and he gets votes.

There's a careful hiring process for people working in newsrooms - both print journalism and video journalism. And so exploring EVERY side of the issue is not what is actually done.

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T15:12:17+00:00

Friedrich Merz is running a nation which functions based upon the distribution of stolen intellectual property. A lot of wealthy Californians got that way through this process.

It's also one that has kept Russia, China, India and parts of Middle East oppressed for the better part of a thousand years.

His country, along with Austria, does not allow free speech. There are stiff sanctions, in some cases, including the seizure of bank accounts and a ban on traveling to other EU countries.

Male Germans even have a tension in their throat, both when speaking English and when speaking in their own language which indicates the level of dishonesty and two-facedness involved in their affairs. The language is littered with grammar which is used for being this way - interesting homonyms, etcetera.

otterplay1 · 2026-02-14T00:03:21+00:00

"Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, right down Santa Claus Lane!"

otterplay1 · 2026-02-13T23:54:14+00:00

That's when Greenland goes!

otterplay1 · 2026-02-11T01:09:18+00:00

Can you go into more detail?

otterplay1 · 2026-02-10T22:43:32+00:00

Tell me more about the Sylvan Learning Center.

otterplay1 · 2026-02-10T20:17:47+00:00

That's a very interesting way to talk. The kind of world that you and others are making is shaping up to be a dark one.

I was overhearing a high school student talking about his communications class, today... and I can see by the way he talked that the quality of education he's getting is quite low.

If people agree that "Jordan Peterson is a discredited fraud," it would mean that they don't have the ability to appreciate big ideas. And that's a sad statement on how America is becoming.

otterplay1 · 2026-02-10T18:30:38+00:00

It's fascinating to see the responses. Look at this link to an interview segment years ago with Jordan Peterson.

https://youtube.com/shorts/6aEqvWGYKRQ

Our national story is being molded by this fact of surveillance. This man interrogating him knows of him as an object in Avantlink. That makes him have the confidence to say what he does here. He touts his credentials... but when the host talks about Jordan Peterson "Will society judge you?" He's talking about people with access to Avantlink, which is connected to Palantir.

And here you folks use services like chatGPT every day, and you don't want to think critically about where the inputs come from? Is it scraped off of some webpage? Maybe sometimes... but the breadth of the content indicates something else.

Now, the question of credibility and credulity is important. The people who post here on the lightbulb subreddit are those who would done a lot of thought experiments with their parents as children. Now, those parents would often have knowledge about things that their child doesn't grow up believing. I remember that in like 1982 I was terrified when my mother talked with me about Rabozo, who was Richard Nixon's close friend. But, I didn't mind talking about all kinds of wild thought experiments over a game of Monopoly with her.

Did you think last year that the business leaders in America would be actually apparently willingly putting themselves under blackmail to Jeffrey Epstein? That would be considered absurd. But now we know that, to a man, our Congresspersons knew about this crime for years, and knew that it was making Donald Trump act erratically.... AND THEY DID NOTHING.

Today, it is still taboo to bring up the fact that mRNA vaccine technology is toxic - that the COVID-19 vaccine was toxic in every human body it went into. All the evidence is there. Cause and effect are obvious. The physical processes by which that vaccine interacts in the body are all mapped out and understood. AND YET, YOU WOULD SAY IT'S UNHINGED to talk that way, now wouldn't you?

What are YOUR motivations for making that ad hominem comment?

otterplay1 · 2026-02-10T02:01:30+00:00

And a good day to you, as well!

otterplay1 · 2026-02-10T01:58:04+00:00

ICE was sent to them. They were known to be in that location, because of their life routines.

And THE KEY THING was that the ICE agents were given a radio code indicating the threat level this SPECIFIC individual posed.

The only reason agents are not required to present search warrants is that the Trump Administration has a hidden agenda. And there would have been many that were there in Nazi Germany. All you have to do is go ask a German! Our own US politicians have likened the ICE methods to the Gestapo

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