Athiests are calling her crazy! What do you think?

Question

This girl expereinced the Lord and changed from a hardened athiest to a God loving Christian.

The athiests are calling her crazy because of her video. They are saying that she is bipolar and manic. What do you think, is she crazy? Or has she seen the light?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2K9NgW-sEQ

Answer 1

John F's right. There are alternatives, such as mistaken.

When an Inuit boy sees his animal guide and becomes mature, I don't call him insane, but I don't start search for animal guides either.

Answer 2

Well its not for me to judge is she is crazy or has a mental disorder IE manic or bipolar but i will give you my opinion of the link you provided.

She was originally a christian who became an atheist and then back again to Christianity, OK. She had a paralyzing experience which i can say with 100% honesty i experienced this poralysis in the night too. It is called night terrors. I woke up one night being pushed down by a force into my bed, i could not move my limbs and i could not speak, i tried to but my lips just seperated at the side, no sound would come. I was too petreficed to even try to open my eyes as to what vision i would see (what was pushing me into the mattress) My heart was pounding so fast i literally thought others in the house could hear it. Eventually after what seemed an eternity the pressure lifted i felt myself rise in the bed and i could move again but in reality it must have only been a few minutes. Being scared i kept my eyes closed and went back to sleep. Now to cut a long story short. I told friends and family and reserched similar experiences with other people who experienced this poralysis.
The end result is a condition called "sleep poralasis" some people hear nothing other who open there eyes see a little black goblin/ minion type creature noramally sitting on there chest (glad i did not open my eyes lol).
It is said to occure when the mind wakes quickly but the body is still asleep. I did not hear vioces or put it down to a religious experience. That is not to say what she experienced is not true or real to her. But just to make the point it is not unique to wake and your body to be in paralysis.

If she puts all this together and gets a revelation who is she harming? If its real for her then its real.
I am a person of faith, not a christian but a muslim. I dont think she is crazy just a little over enthusiastic and passionate. Where is the harm in that?

Answer 3

OK I watched about half, she's crazy. I don't mean that in the normal dismissive sense, I mean there is literally something wrong with her. She talked like someone on crack.

Also she mentions sleep paralysis, that's something people experience in alien abduction too. Hmm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

If she'd ever been a true atheist then such things she should have been able to look at rationally and logically. Having an emotional experience? Well she was never a real atheist from the sound of it.

The passion with which you believe something is not a guide to whether that thing is true or not.

*ALSO interesting that God's grammar and speech was the same as her own. Coincidence I'm sure...? She strikes me as above average in terms of intelligence but obviously with some kind of mental defect.

Oh and she's wrong. She's not more intelligent than me. Arrogant little so and so... Did anyone manage to sit through the whole thing?*

"In African-Americans, panic disorder co-occurs with sleep paralysis more frequently than in Caucasians" !!!!! From the wiki article! Say no more!

Answer 4

Lots of people have had hallucinations under "paralysis" (you will find most "alien abducties" have experienced this.

As for the micro rain burst, this sort of thing happens all of the time here in the Western US. It's not that unusual.

I believe she is sincere and not crazy. It does not mean she experienced anything supernatural.



A good question is why have so many others (like myself) sought God not NOT found him?


And Captain Atheism is right... she was never a hardened atheist. Her story in the video suggested she had only been thinking about these things for a few months. Her slightly neurotic behavior suggests that she was just looking for something to latch on to.

Answer 5

It's hard to be sure with all the editing, but she seems rather intense, like someone who needs to be absolutely certain about everything. These extreme attitudes are perhaps the most susceptible to sudden switches.

So, her atheism period was some kind of adolescent revolt against convention, based on an emotional desire for "freedom" without any intellectual commitment. Then one night she has a spooky dream she can't "interpret". Obviously her paradigm for understanding the universe must have become broken. Perfect brainwashing candidate. She starts looking for "evidence", something, anything that she can't "explain". And lo! She finds some! And migrates to the opposite extreme.

Her intensity, her disavowal of all previous opinions and associations, and her touting of her own intelligence are likely masking her insecurity about her importance as a person. She's worried that she's nothing special, forgettable, unloved. Belief in God provided a validation for her, a feeling that "someone" cared for her. It happens all the time.

That's why I'm an agnostic. I can live with uncertainty. I can see what motivates believer and atheist alike. But a pathological need to determine "certainty" tells me someone is worried about their significance in a vast and chaotic world. Such people are likely to say, believe or do anything.

Answer 6

To be honest, the two aren't mutually exclusive. She seems to have truly accepted the Lord, but she's showing some behaviors that are consistant with a manic episode as well. As a Christian, I'm happy whenever anyone opens their heart to God. As a social worker, I've dealt with people in manic states and she showed some similarities. She may have just been angry about some of the comments she had gotten previously, and that would be another possible explaination. Just calling it as I see it.

Answer 7

I too have had dreams during storms.

I remember hearing God tell me that he would strike me dead if I didn't repent. I got down on my knees and prayed for the rest of the night, even though I was a Christian before the dream and didn't know what I was repenting for.

I don't think she is crazy, she experienced 'sleep paralysis' which is a very real malady that happens to many people. The fact that she heard God during that time doesn't surprise me either.

If my body failed to react, while I was scared from lightning strikes, I would begin to reach into my childhood memories for some solace too.

Her experience was very real, so I don't blame her conclusion, however, just because she thinks that God is responsible doesn't make it fact.

Answer 8

First of all, its spelled "atheist", not "athiest". (Why are so many of the fundies such terrible spellers? Did they actually graduate from the eigth grade or not?)

After she said "I am probably more intelligent than you" I know she was an arrogant, conceited person that I shouldn't pay attention to so I turned the video off. Even if she is more intelligent than I am that doesn't prove in the slightest that what she believes is any more valid than what anybody else believes, and for all we know she is doing this for an acting class. Still, after the "I'm probably more intelligent than you" comment I was 100% certain that she probably isn't and that her opinion was no longer something I cared about.

Answer 9

I'm at the point where she's describing a hypnagogic experience. It isn't sounding as if she's "crazy". She seems lucid, though she does speak rapidly. Love the accent.

Yup, it was classic sleep paralysis and she just seems not to know it. I had similar things happen when I was young (though not her age). I would dream that I was in a parking lot of a store, sitting on a chair while throngs of undead were clamoring to kill me. I still remember those dreams 30 years later because of how real they seemed.

Answer 10

i am not an athiests maybe an agnostic. i feel there is a superior being what ever you wish to call them. i belive she is not crazy or bipolar (which i am) she is excited and has had some experiece which she can only share with strangers not her own or she could just be a great actress. each of us see a or the light in our own way mine would not be the same as yours or hers.
some of what she described sounds like astro projections so who really knows only she knows in her mind what she experienced we were not there.
do we take you at her word or do we question. well what you believe may not be the same as me but i belive you have the right to you own.

Answer 11

Whew. That chick is a little whack-o. Her demeanor certainly suggests mania. I mean, wow, she is just all over the place!

I doubt someone in that state has any idea what they really believe about anything. I mean, she's so hyped up I can't believe she has a firm grasp of reality.

Sorry, it has nothing to do with Christianity or atheism - straight neurotransmitters and other body chemicals. She's out there.