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PostPosted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:31 pm    Post subject: Re: The experiment Reply with quote
Mind your place O'Connor! You seem to be exhibiting your stalker like activities yet again. We discussed this before!

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Thanks for your participation, May God bless you!

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:21 pm    Post subject: Re: The experiment Reply with quote
So Asana, why in your opinion did god not show himself?

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From my own experience God has always seemed to like to show off a bit, so I really must say that I don't know. However, while I don't believe your life will ever be the same after participating that is something that remains to be seen.

I have nothing but respect for you keeping your word and during the entire time I have seen the posts and did not participate in answering them as not to in anyway interfere with the process.

I apologize to anyone who addressed me during the last seven days for not responding to any of their comments.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:49 pm    Post subject: Re: The experiment Reply with quote
Is it possible that Frank didn't experience God because God doesn't really exist? Or is that out of the question? What is your opinion?

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Is it possible that Frank didn't experience God because God doesn't really exist? Or is that out of the question? What is your opinion?


Of course God not existing is not a feasible alternative because it does not negate my own knowledge on the matter so yes that is out of the question.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:10 pm    Post subject: Re: The experiment Reply with quote
Couldn't your "knowledge" be mistaken? Don't you ever even consider the possibility that what you've interpretted as proof of God wasn't really proof at all?

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Couldn't your "knowledge" be mistaken? Don't you ever even consider the possibility that what you've interpretted as proof of God wasn't really proof at all?


When God first started gving me signs of his existence I thought I was mistaken then eventually it became undeniable. Have you ever heard of Snychronicity?

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Synchronicity is a word coined by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to describe the "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events." Jung spoke of synchronicity as an "acausal connecting principle" (i.e. a pattern of connection that cannot be explained by direct causality). Cause-and-effect, in Jung's mind, seemed to have nothing to do with it.

Plainly put, it is the experience of two or more occurrences (beyond coincidentally) in a manner that is logically meaningful- but inexplicable- to the person or persons experiencing them. Such events would also have to suggest an underlying pattern in order to satisfy the definition of synchronicity as developed by Jung.


These signs were even deeper than synchronicity it was as if God was simply showing off.

Remember the thread you started regarding me? You chose the material yourself and within that material you chose a post in which I state the number 17 holds a special signifigance for me. That post of yours added up to 17 and well that's in that thread so no need to rehash it here.

When I instructed some of those who didn't either believe in God or at least have never experienced God to "pay attention" they started Witnessing The Real.


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Snychronicity is one of the all-time greatest albums.

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