I work in a large hospital in Seattle and I was told by a patient (who I'm sure was "demon possessed") that I had a "purple glow" around my head. That was proof to me that Christians are powerful! Praise God!
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So a patient who for all we know was in a delusional state induced by hospital-prescribed drugs told you that you are glowing and you interpreted that as proof of your christian "power"? If you'd ask me, I'd say that you are stretching things here... just a little bit.
But hey, I'll bite. What does this "power" of yours allow you to do? Can you walk faster or read more books per week? Maybe drink hazardous liquids or jump in front of freight trains?
You see, glowing purple is one thing, but unless it provides something useful, it only makes you look stupid.
"livingforjesus2": Dude "Insomnia" is fiction, much like the bible don't believe either . No god, no auras, no demons.
It was night-time, right? Your patient was wearing contact lenses, and had been wearing them for over 12 hours. They get hazy after a while. She was sitting down, probably in a wheelchair, and looking up at you. You were backlit by a fluorescent light in the ceiling. Of course she saw a violet halo around your head and shoulders. Anyone would.
Jesus, you people can turn anything into what you want to believe.
You know, I just remembered something. Back when I was 17 and in my first REAL job as a hospital orderly (I prefer to not count the 6 weeks I spent as a KFC fry cook the previous summer), I once shared with a patient a poem I had written. (Nothing that great, I hasten to add -- fairly typical lame, tame teen love poetry, except that I at least knew to use rhyme and meter.)
The poem was of a romantic nature, since I had my first girlfriend at the time and was enjoying that situation, but this patient immediately read it as an entirely different kind of love, reading it as a hymn of praise to Christ!
Mind you, this patient was NOT in for any kind of a mental problem, at least none that I knew of (this was in an orthopaedics ward) but when she started off on her own interpretation of the poem in complete contradiction to its intent, waving away my protests with further compliments about the way it captured His Glory, etc., I finally just started smiling and nodding until I could get out of the room to take care of other patients.
To this day, I have no idea if the meds she (probably) was on played any part in that episode, but I'm reasonably sure that the majority of it was due to her own personality, just automatically interpreting the world around her in dramatic FundieVision(TM). But not for a second would it have occurred to me that maybe my poem wasn't about what I intended it to be about!
~David D.G.
"I was told by a patient (who I'm sure was "demon possessed") that I had a "purple glow" around my head. That was proof to me that Christians are powerful! Praise God!"
No dear, you'd just OD'd on Ready Brek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1KUoS3mmvM&feature=related
(*Nostalgia bomb goes off in head *)
Hey, a potential commercial opportunity: Rapture Ready Brek!
"I work in a large hospital in Seattle"
And a fundie who believes in the (C)Rapture, to boot?! What about reconciling your beliefs (especially the 'power of prayer/faith') with your job as a purveyor of modern, scientific medical care?
livingforjesus2 is just a prayer away from a malpractice suit. And even the 'no win, no fee' ambulance chaser lawyers would annihilate you in court. Ergo 'No win, no fee', such is their faith in their own legal knowledge & experience. QED.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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