ahem.

meanwhile, back in the unix users group...

;-)

Josh Coates
http://www.jcoates.org

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Justin Findlay
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:38 AM
To: Andrew Jorgensen; BYU Unix Users Group
Subject: Re: [uug] [OT] Agnosticism


On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:05:10AM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
> One major problem is that it's both.  I met many a missionary in New
> York who felt the "spirit" while doing things they clearly should not
> be doing.  I imagine they really thought they did.  My guess is about
> half the time people feel the spirit it's really just adrenaline.
> (Not half the time for all people, nor half the people all the time,
> but some mix where many people mostly feel the spirit and many others
> mostly feel adrenaline or some other hormone).

At the sincere risk of yanking the topic again, truly recognizing
communications from the Spirit from the traits of other feelings can be
difficult.  It takes a long time to come to recognize it, and recognition is
fragile, if I'm not continually striving to be righteous, the familliarity
fades and the sensitivity diminishes.


Justin

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