Actually, this was exactly the conversation I had with a Christian friend of mine from church last June. I told her that I felt like I was losing my mind, and I truly felt detached, a sense of 'depersonalization'. Sometimes I feel as if I'm just watching my life in a movie, and that I'm not even real. She got so excited that she started laughing. She said, "Don't you get it??? That's because you are not supposed to feel like you belong here! God is preparing your soul, just like you asked Him to!"
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Or it could be the sign of more serious psychological issues.
But sure, the re-appearance of a guy dead for 2000 years and the simultaneous disappearance of a large swathe of the earth's population in the blink of an eye is far more likely.
@ Eric the Blue - very, very possibly.
So people with dissociative disorders are being prepared by God?... Don't think they're very happy about it if so.
@Cabraxes: More likely its Acute Stress Disorder. The poor girl probably had a major trauma that is constantly being invalidated as "Jesus at work."
@ Mr Spak
If Catholics are not Christian, what are they? They worship Jesus as God, so...
It would also mean that Eastern Orthodox Churches are also not Christian. That would greatly reduce the number of Christians in the world, and hence mean that Christian claims to specical consideration would be even less credible than they are at present.
Also, consider, who preserved Christianity from the time of Paul until Luther? A mere 1,500 years... If Catholics and Orthodox are not Christian, then Christianity was invented a mere 500 years ago and can have no foundation in the universal Church, cos their ain't no universal church. Moreover, the bible counts for nothing cos thos lying Catholics and Orthodox can't be trusted to have preserved it properly.
<bullshit prophecy voice>
I SEE A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT WAY WAY OFF IN YOUR FUTURE
</bullshit prophecy voice>
This is really funny. So, God gives us a whole life experience and planet to waste and expect us to be a kind of masochists who, the worse they are, the more they're close to him. As I used to be said, religious experience fulfills our lives(however, if a person with the same symptoms says he's not Christian, they fix it with "come to know Jesus").
[b]Depersonalisation Disorder: A Contemporary Overview[/b] by Daphne Simeon
[...]
The following are common descriptions of depersonalisation experiences: watching oneself from a distance (similar to watching a movie); candid out-of-body experiences; a sense of just going through the motions; one part of the self acting/participating the other part is observing; feeling like you are in a dream or fog; looking in the mirror and feeling detached from one’s image; feeling detached from parts or the whole body; not feeling in control of one’s speech or physical movements; feeling disconnected from one’s own thoughts; and feeling detached from one’s emotions (numbed or blunted). Depersonalisation is frequently accompanied by derealisation (i.e. a sense of unfamiliarity or detachment from one’s own surroundings [people and objects]).
(But this is the best bit...)
The most common immediate precipitants of the disorder are severe stress, depression and panic, and marijuana and hallucinogen ingestion
(RDY4HIM! You naughty pup!)
It's a good thing to not be worldly
I'm sorry, the correct answer is; What are stupid Fundie beliefs. You were close. It's hard to tell the difference sometimes
Actually RDY4HIM, that sounds like clinical depression. My father, a Baptist pastor, has suffered with it for years. But they make pills for it now.
No, no, no, you silly billies. As with so many other things, it's a psychological issue when it happens to someone else, but when it happens to us Truly Saved True Christians, it's a sign that God is about to do a great work.
I've actually experienced this state of feeling as though you're watching the world around you through a camera or something. It's an... interesting experience, about as interesting as these days when I had no emotions whatsoever, but to somehow drag God into it is... unnecessary.
"Sometimes I feel as if I'm just watching my life in a movie, and that I'm not even real."
This happens to me too-usually when I'm on cold medicine.
No, that's called a dissociative personality disorder. There's treatment for that.
Hurry and do that before you start hearing voices or blacking out or forgetting things.
Isn't this the same person with OCD, depression and anxiety disorders?
Seriously, seek professional help.
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