Date: September 18, 2018
01) God is a Thug & Attacks the Show – Jason – Florida – Talk Heathen 02.35
“Talk Heathen 02.35 for September 2, 2018 with Jamie Boone and Matt Dillahunty.
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I’m not sure if I’ve written or talked about this previously…but I’ve had one repetitive experience, going all the way back to my boyhood, which I never tend to talk about…and it might seem in stark contrast to my atheism…but the main reason I never talk about it…is because there is no way for me to prove it…so, why bother?…
…I’ve also been able to determine no rhyme or reason to it, except maybe once…possibly twice, if a more recent incident comes to pass…and I only have vivid memories of this occurring…probably less than a dozen times, over my lifetime…yet, I did experience them…sometimes, with amazing detail…including a sight, accompanied by sound…or smell…or a thought going through my head…
I had my first, privately verifiable incident, probably when I was fourteen, or so…
…I would see incidents and setting so exact in my dreams…that it would stop me in my tracks, when I physically encountered that exact incident and setting…and it wasn’t solely typical stuff…It might be typical…but maybe a specific song was playing on the radio…or a specific, uncommon smell would be occurring…or a partial thought going through my mind, was suddenly being completed…and it’s almost stunning…
But again…I cannot prove these things to anyone else…They are only real to me…The only other people who are likely to believe, are those who’ve also had repeated experiences like this.
For all I know…they could be “schizophrenic” experiences, where maybe I didn’t have the dream at all…but I’m having the overwhelming sensation that I’ve already seen and experienced this in a dream?…a false memory of a dream?
It’s happened enough times over the years…to where I don’t believe that’s the case…
…I think, my mind has somehow managed to peer into the future, a number of times…
Strange thing is…most of the time, it doesn’t mean anything…Like it’s just showing itself to say, “See?…Here I am!”…
I don’t even believe in clairvoyance…Yet, I have a very strong intuition…a very strong gut sense…and my dreams have delivered to me unexplained, sometimes troubling, bits of information…
It’s nothing I’ve ever been able to control…like it always seeks me out…not the other way around.
I do wonder the value of sharing this…because having this type of first hand experience, probably seems really contradictory, to the analytical and rational mind that I have…
…I have an open mind…more so, than is probably clear [at least as regards to “supernatural” issues]…but, I’m a strident skeptic.
I can accept that unexplained things do happen…
…What I don’t accept, is fluffy and mystical explanations for those experiences.
