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11-06-2004, 09:16 PM
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Psychoanalyzing God
If a psychologist were to read the bible and analyze God's character in the same way he or she would analyze a patient's character, what would the psychologist conclude about God? What kind of person is God? What's His character like? Does God have any pathologies, or is He relatively healthy? What do you think?
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Then I came back from where I'd been. My room, it looked the same - but there was nothing left between The Nameless and the name. - Leonard Cohen. 
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11-06-2004, 09:18 PM
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I think God would have a superiority complex, as well as antisocial behavior and schizophrenia.
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I condone the responsible use of psychoactives. There is more to reality than you have confronted.
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11-06-2004, 09:23 PM
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Quote:
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Jn.5:24 (RSV) Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgement, but has passed from death to life.
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#4
11-06-2004, 10:49 PM
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God would want you to psychoanalyze the people who wrote about God.
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11-06-2004, 11:03 PM
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If God were analyzed in today's world, he would be classified as loopy.
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11-07-2004, 01:55 AM
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Psychoanalyzed using the bible? Well, let's see here...
In the Old Testament we find evidence of a severe Dominance Complex--he seems to need to be in control of everything at all times, and acts violently to those who oppose his will. He displays wastefulness and poor planning in his many instances of destroying his own creation in favor of his 'chosen people'. Most prolific, in my opinion, is his seeming 'Needy' Complex: the number of times when he sets up ridiculous traps for his 'chosen people' to fall into, so that he can punish them for disobeying and have them come runningg back to him are too numerous to count. In fact, he closely resembles the antics of a stalker in that area. In the New Testament, we don't hear much about god--mostly just about his son Jesus. However, we are all of the sudden provided with this image of god as merciful and compassionate, which suggests some sort of Bipolar disorder when compared to his perogatives of choice in the OT. God shows an acute amount of sadism in his execution of his own son. In Revelation, poor planning and strategic skills are displayed as he messily battles Satan. On the whole, I think it's safe to say that god should be committed, or at the very least demoted.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. ~Socrates
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#7
11-07-2004, 02:23 AM
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They could say she was a dominatrix with a gender identity problem.
Last edited by Lightkeeper; 11-07-2004 at 02:25 AM.
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11-07-2004, 03:18 AM
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Lol, yes I like that, Lightkeeper!
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. ~Socrates
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11-07-2004, 10:47 AM
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Does the god of the bible suffer from anhedonism -- an aversion to pleasure? (Anhedonism is a common symptom of such disorders as major depression.)
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Then I came back from where I'd been. My room, it looked the same - but there was nothing left between The Nameless and the name. - Leonard Cohen.
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#10
11-07-2004, 11:14 AM
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God recieves His only pleasure by seeing the world live in peace, and that all that follow Him are safe and well-being.
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