Would you assume he had been hallucinating? Or would you base an entire religion on it? Or both?
2007-03-23 07:25:29 · 45 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think psychosis was treated differently 2000 years ago.
2007-03-23 07:29:02 · answer #1 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Oh, I would have believed, yes, as I carted him off to the nearest medical/psychiatric unit for dehydration and visual hallucinations. I'd tell him about how I lived in NJ for 18 years and I too had seen things, terrible things, like the NJ public school system and we would talk about our challenges to survival. Only, see, my reality would be real (have you ever been through the NJ public school system?) to others as well as myself. His reality regarding that burning bush would only be real to him.
It's like getting the bends during a deep dive and coming up completely disoriented. You just saw Jesus underwater, or Davy Jones, or his locker, or various other Monkees, but once you spend 6 hours in a decompression chamber you realize that what you think you saw were simply hallucinations. You may start speaking to a rock and think it's answering you prior to that. Or, you just may be psychotic.
As for basing an entire religion on it... how much would my take be? I can speak to inanimate objects too. It's a very one-sided conversation though.
2007-03-23 08:03:43 · answer #2 · answered by Me, Thrice-Baked 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We're talking about a Middle East Religion (keep in mind) so who knows what really happened we only have information that has been handed down generation to generation and the life over there is so hard that you would have to believe in some type of miracle
to survive mentally so I can understand basing a whole religion on it. Who knows what kind of drugs they ingested and felt it was o.k. they might not of knew it was a bad thing. I say both. Who knows how many things are hidden in the mountains and sands that we haven't even discovered yet! The next generation might know something new!
2007-03-23 07:41:04 · answer #3 · answered by Luv2no is in the house 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's my question. Between Egypt and Israel, where is there any wilderness? I think of Montana when I think of the wilderness. I think of desert in that area. Maybe it's just me.
I can beleive someone got lost, but for forty years. Maybe that is where "men not asking for directions" originated from. And, the burning bush thing. Well, what exactly is in manna that makes you talk to a buring bush. And, where can I get some.
2007-03-23 07:35:59 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everyone could see the 'pillar of smoke' hanging around his tent at all times. I would tend to either stay away from fright or believe everything the guy said. I think the burning bush thing came before the 40 years anyway. I suggest, if you really want to know... go to Moab in Jordan and see the place where Moses was supposedly buried by God or taken up... can't remember. Just go there and see.
2007-03-23 07:30:16 · answer #5 · answered by madbaldscotsman 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I could believe that he spoke to a burning bush while he was hallucinating. and I can believe that there are still numnut cults believing in people like koresh or worse that aren't hallucinating one bit. Give moses a little more credit -- at least he wasn't one of the sober followers.
2007-03-23 07:32:25 · answer #6 · answered by Virgo 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
After 40 years in the wilderness he could tell me that he can fly let alone converse with a talking burning bush.
2007-03-23 07:30:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you're talking about Moses - the 40 years in the wilderness thing was AFTER the burning bush thing.
2007-03-23 07:29:30 · answer #8 · answered by daisyk 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Darn I wish I could remember a quote of Al Gore's at a press dinner or something! Everyone thinks he's such a stick, but he's got a GREAT sense of humour. Something like...The last time someone talked to a BUSH they wandered for 40 years. (It was better than that, but I can't remember.)
2007-03-23 07:37:02 · answer #9 · answered by Valac Gypsy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Funny you say that cause I just spoke to a girl who claimed she got pregnant and has NEVER had sex! Something about having God's baby. In this day and age, something like that wouldn't fly, I know, but in those days, faith and innocence existed so maybe then I'd have believed it too. In the year 2007, though, I'd call it bull.
2007-03-23 07:29:45 · answer #10 · answered by -Bibee- 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some oil producing plants in the middle east can start on fire without signs of being in flames when the fire goes out. The Discovery Channel killed that story around 10 years ago.
2007-03-23 07:29:27 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋