If you ever fasted and prayed for a long period of time; for example, a week, you may start to hallucinate.......just talking from experiance. And what I mean by hallucinate is that you might start seeing strange things in the spiritual world. If you are fasting and praying, like the Lord told us to do (while the bridegroom is away), some strange things you might see and hear might be coming from the enemy, and some strange things you might see might be good things from the Lord. If you are not totally grounded in Jesus, and His Way, I wouldn't suggest fasting for long periods of time.
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I too would limit a fast to, say, 6 hours or so. It just doesn't help to go ass-out, because the body doesn't like that.
This is an unusual and startling quote, and the 5 is justified due to the treating of hallucinations as though they were anything other than a serious problem with the grey matter. 'Spiritual experiences' that are wholly indistinguishable from hallucinations are likely just that.
I never really understood the need for this whole fasting thing (at least at the level that the OP does).
X-tian shamanism?
Whatever.
If you substitute the phrase 'mainlining amphetamine' for 'praying' then I certainly agree that 'fasting and [something else extreme]' for a week will, indeed, cause hallucinations.
They mean shit though. (Apart from the ones about the insects under the sofa conspiring against you, of course)
I happened to pastor a pentecostal church at one time. The nutjob that was there before me decided to test his faith by fasting for 40 days, just like Jesus did. On the 35th day, he was hallucinating, screaming that the devil was attacking him. On the 40th day, he lapsed into a coma. A week later he woke up with the mental capacity of a 5 year old. It was neither your Jeebus, or da ebil debil that caused this. May I suggest that it was his own fucktardiness and stupidity.
So, either 1) the entirety of the medical profession is wrong about self-starvation and hallucinations, or 2) Isaiah has suffered self-inflicted brain damage through starvation.
Guess which one I'm betting on?
Some strange things ... might be coming from the enemy, and some strange things ... might be good things from the lord.
It's the uncertainty that kills ya.
@ Gemsabarmy
@ Chickenpot whatever his name is
Michael:
A week later he woke up with the mental capacity of a 5 year old.
Judging by his previous behavior, he went to sleep with the mental capacity of a 5 year old.
Yeah right. I'm at loss for words at the sheer stupidity of this. So why are fundies so anti drug if hallucination is spiritual? And to add, no wonder they think nervous system and psycholgical disorders are of their debil.
I'm surprised I haven't read a fundie say something smart about Parkinson's or Alzheimer's being caused by demons or some snaps (though I've heard some inane stuff IRL).
@TracerI hope the cheese you're talking about isn't that liquid-at-room-temperature Velveeta crap. Nachos should be made with REAL cheese, the kind you get from a cow's udders -- not orange-colored oil refinery waste products.
Blessed are the cheesemakers?
"just talking from experiance."
"you might start seeing strange things in the spiritual world."
"while the bridegroom is away"
"If you are not totally grounded in Jesus, and His Way, I wouldn't suggest fasting for long periods of time"
If you ever fasted and prayed for a long period of time; for example, a week, you may start to hallucinate
Thats because you are fucking with the delicate chemical balancing act thats going on in your body. Not eating until your body decides that there is an emergency going on to the degree that it needs to break down fat, muscle and internal organs for energy will wreak havoc with your brain.
I was asked to fast in high school by the ultra conservative headmasters. On Lent they did not serve us lunch. But they never gave lunch anyway, just a bunch of vending machines in the cafetria and instant soups. On Friday we got pizza though.
Anyway, yeah I did the fasting for a few days as a homework assingent for Religion 1 and had to keep a journal. I was sick to my stomach by the third day and said "fuck this shit" and faked the rest of the "journal" while eating regular meals like a healthy person.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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