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i was sent to a private christian school when i was young. it was a harsh lesson in denial and absurd human behavior...
imagine listening to a sermon before school starts and the guy saying he got out of the shower, bent over and the voice of God told him to stand up and then gave him instructions (this guy really said that)
picture everyone just staring at him in awe... thinking quietly "god spoke to this guy"
then imagine a second grader slowing and innocently raising his hand and innocently asking "how do you know it was god"
everyone is totally disgusted and upset
he scrambles to answer and expresses a little dissapointment that i would even ask such a thing.
i had just watched The Amityville Horror (1979) and asked "well, how do you know it wasn't satan... or how do you know your not just crazy like guy in The Amityville Horror who killed his family"
i was quickly escorted out and got my ass beat with no explanation given. but i was serious. really serious. in fact, i was a little scared that some guy was proudly telling us he was hearing voices... i was thinking about crazy people and that crazy people always hear voices.
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