How come people claim to observe and experience the same torments in hell ?

[Yimpa]

1 minute ago, MellowEd said:

You are still alive when tripping.

Don’t be so sure, grasshopper 

[Rafael Thundercat]

They are having a Numinous Experience

Rudolf Otto's Concept of the "Numinous"

Otto was one of the most influential thinkers about religion in the first half of the twentieth century. He is best known for his analysis of the experience that, in his view, underlies all religion. He calls this experience "numinous," and says it has three components. These are often designated with a Latin phrase: mysterium tremendum et fascinans. As mysterium, the numinous is "wholly other"-- entirely different from anything we experience in ordinary life. It evokes a reaction of silence. But the numinous is also a mysterium tremendum. It provokes terror because it presents itself as overwhelming power. Finally, the numinous presents itself as fascinans, as merciful and gracious.

Outline of Otto's concept of the numinous (based on The Idea of the Holy. Trans. John W. Harvey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1923; 2nd ed., 1950 [Das Heilige, 1917]):

"Mysterium tremendum et fascinans" (fearful and fascinating mystery):

"Mysterium": Wholly Other, experienced with blank wonder, stupor

"tremendum":

awefulness, terror, demonic dread, awe, absolute unapproachability, "wrath" of God

overpoweringness, majesty, might, sense of one's own nothingness in contrast to its power

creature-feeling, sense of objective presence, dependence

energy, urgency, will, vitality

"fascinans": potent charm, attractiveness in spite of fear, terror, etc.

[MellowEd]

 

[TheAlchemist]

What a fascinating forum we have here with Christian preachers, Buddhist fundamentalists, all sorts of schizophrenics and solipsists all in the same place talking about God. 

You won't see this in Sunday church 😂

[UnbornTao]

@Water by the River Not agnostic but thank you.

[Princess Arabia]

5 minutes ago, TheAlchemist said:

What a fascinating forum we have here with Christian preachers, Buddhist fundamentalists, all sorts of schizophrenics and solipsists all in the same place talking about God. 

You won't see this in Sunday church 😂

Now, that's the joke of the day.....or week....or mth...or year...or a fucking lifetime...😂

[Princess Arabia]

1 hour ago, Water by the River said:

And everybody be nice to Squeekytoy. I mean, just look at the profile picture! Who could ban a rubber ducky?

I know right. Such a cutie....

[Leo Gura]

Locking this.