Would you agree?
2007-11-10 19:50:25 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is interesting to see the panning I got when I never stated my position.
It's merely a quote, I've forgotten by whom, and I asked if you agreed with it.
2007-11-10 21:00:05 · update #1
Totally.
I don't think that we give the insane enough credit, though. They may be understanding the world in ways beyond what the rest of us are able, and we dismiss it as lunacy.
EDIT:
I think what this question forgets to mention that by definition 'faith' is belief in the absence of proof.
2007-11-10 19:53:29 · answer #1 · answered by SDW 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
What is there to prove? Is it that you believe that they are insane or that you know that they are insane? Think of one's mind as a computer that can be bashed around over time. It begins to glitch right? That's what happens to the mentally ill. You cannot equate observation and a prejudgment with something that can't be seen, something that is beyond the senses and mind. All a lunatic asylum proves is that there is a balance between order and chaos, both equal, nothing more than the other. If one overpowered the other, God forbid what would happen.
2007-11-11 04:04:57 · answer #2 · answered by elguapo_marco_2008@sbcglobal.net 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All this question suggests is that you have strong prejudice towards people with mental illnesses.
I've been in one and have faith, some of my friends have been in one - some atheists, Hindi, Christian, Buddhists etc.
Faith may not prove anything ... but then again it just might.
2007-11-11 04:03:55 · answer #3 · answered by Latte 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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No, I do not agree. I have worked with the mentaly insane before, and religion is not a topic 99% of them even concern themselves with. I have seen a man try to find his lost pencil, unable to remember shoving up his urethra. I saw a woman styling her hair with bloody stool she mixed up with her own urine. These people never once talked about faith or religion.
2007-11-11 03:55:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is also interesting that many important characters in the history of religion displayed symptoms of schizophrenia.
Religion seems to derive in part from what we now understand to be mental illness.
2007-11-11 04:03:02 · answer #5 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Misplaced faith no. You can jump out a window singing "I believe I can fly" and really mean it and still make a nice grease spot.
2007-11-11 03:59:29 · answer #6 · answered by δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It all depends on what or whom you put your faith in. Faith will not save you if it is based on something or someone that is not reliable.
Faith in God is not misplaced. He is reliable, eternal and more than capable.
2007-11-11 03:58:48 · answer #7 · answered by 19jay63 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The nice men in white coats are your friends. Go with them quietly.
2007-11-11 03:55:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure anyone ever said that faith proves anything, but if someone did, I could see how that could be a persuasive counter-argument.
2007-11-11 03:54:39 · answer #9 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
That's why it's called faith, einstein.
2007-11-11 03:56:45 · answer #10 · answered by James Bond 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋