Lots of hip throws.

Well, yes, but no.

What I mean by that is this: Do you know why humans have such a fascination with stories in general?

Why would God give us a storybook with a narrative instead of a scientific textbook?

b/c textbooks are boring af

The reason is because the way our brains work is that we relate much better to a narrative than a laundry list of facts.

Right, exactly six five, but *why* do they bore us? THat's what I'm getting at.

Because they're boring?

How is it that we can read a scientific textbook and be bored to tears, yet we get so sucked into starwars that we can't look away from the screen?

Adventure, action

Vivid images in the mind

Stories are lessons dress In great details

The reason is that we can relate things that aren't literally true to our everyday lives.
How does the story of Pinocchio even make any sense?

I'll tell you how: Because Pinocchio isn't a story about a puppet. It's a story about how to raise a child and the experiences that every child has growing up.

What is a puppet? It's a thing that looks human, can move like a human, but doesn't have any sort of will of its own. Does this sound familiar? Why is the age of consent a thing?

Because children don't know what the hell they're doing is why.

Alright, so the story about an angel wrestling with a human, what could that mean? Why should we believe it's about a physical wrestling match any more than Pinocchio is about a wooden puppet?

Well, I'ma ignore that.

Point being, the wrestling match between angel and human: Humans struggle with deep truths all the time. And if we're not careful, such truths can seriously hurt us. People get PTSD from seeing true things that they're not prepared to handle.

Like, if you want a recipe for PTSD it's:

Relatively Innocent Person suddenly confronts an evil that they had no idea could have possibly existed, that's PTSD in a nutshell.

Alright, but anyways, sorry for all of that @revenant king. And I just want to stress, *none of this makes the fears we have any less valid.*

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Like, all this stuff I'm saying, that's not me laughing at you guys. You guys are touching on some really deep psychological stuff here. Just because I don't think there's a physical predator doesn't mean there's nothing to be afraid of. Hell, if anything, it's even scarier than that.

Because what the hell are you supposed to do about a predator you can't kill?

exactly! xD i gotchu bro. ngl, your doing a really good ob at rationalizing this stuff though.

and I don't feel like you de-legitimizing anyone's experiences.

Thank you.

Its 100% a sound theory and put in a way that does not negate other theories

@Kreia's Disciple you make solid points man

It's just stuff I'm passing on, people far greater than me rationalized these points out, I'm just passing them on.

Like Karl Jung is somebody who looked really deep into the human mind and found a whole lot of this stuff.

I'm just telling you guys what I've heard from people much smarter than me.

kinda agree exept for the part where it says that the angle touched his hip and he had a limp from then on

just sounds physical to me

so the people that Revelation called Synagogues of Satan were specifically the people who said they were Jews but were not. they were infiltrators of the church who it says were blasphemous.

so they we're not all Jews, to say that would be taking the verse terribly out of context and missleading

and the part about John 8:44 is also completely false and taken out of context. Jesus is talking to the Pharisees there, NOT to or about the entire Jewish state

Fair enough.

not trying to discount anything you said, just throwing in my 2 cents 👍

No problem, everyone deserves to be heard. It's what makes the community great is to discuss ideas. And there's no reason your ideas ought to be discounted out of hand if you discuss them in a rational way.

well said, well said

Yeah thats just text on a picture. might like the quote "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over essay" ~Abraham lincoln.

Anyone can put words on something that are not true. CNN and NY Times do it all the time.