I've been working with people who have mental illness for years and God never tells them to take their medication.

Hah, Andrew - love that.

On a shrinky note, I love the term "non-bizarre delusions," as opposed to "bizarre delusions."

I think ya gotta figure, if you haven't heard from god within a reasonable amount of time, the answer is probably "NO". And if you're waiting for him to tell you "what or what not to do", if you haven't heard from him by now, he doesn't really give a shit either way!

For a while I was using a "magic 8-ball" to make all of my decisions; I left it behind in Afghanistan...it was a very useful tool...I tried using another one but it just wasn't the same.

"For a while I was using a "magic 8-ball" to make all of my decisions"

I think Wall Street relies pretty heavily on magic 8-balls when they're staying up late and making decisions.

Who delivers those magic 8-balls, anyway? Ronnie Sunshine?

In the same vein... Did anyone catch the story a week or two ago about the tip from the "psychic" that had multiple law-enforcement agencies digging for mutilated children's bodies in East Texas? Some freak called in a "tip" about a mass grave at a rural property near the TX/LA border that had CNN and other news helicopters hovering over this place, watching the Texas Rangers and whoever else on a search for this non-existant mass grave full of chopped-up bodies. Yeah... there was nothing except a broken freezer full of rotting food.

ahw,

Yeah, I read about that story in Texas. It turned out that the public relations guy for the sheriff department told the local TV news station that they had recieved a call from a psychic about mutilated bodies...before the sheriff department even started the investigation. After they realized the psychic call was a fraud, the PR guy blamed Twitter for spreading the false news around. Go figure.

Wait. Maybe he does. Imagine the following:

Lady calls airport: "God tells me you are of Oreos."
Airport Security: "Thank you mama. We will alert both the vending machine contractor and the cafeteria. Good bye." "Freak!"

The Goddess asks: How Come God Never Says Stuff Like "Eat Fewer Oreos"?

Because you only hear about conversations with God that concern dire circumstances. What news network is going to run a story about someone who was told by God to do less spreading and licking the creamy inside? (And I'm talking about Oreos, you perverts!)

How Come God Never Says Stuff Like "Eat Fewer Oreos"?

Because that would be proof there is no God. Thus God would cease to exist.

How Come God Never Says Stuff Like "Eat Fewer Oreos"?

Perhaps God owns stock in Nabisco.

Perhaps He just likes Oreos.

Perhaps God, like the late senator from Illinois, has a favorite cookie: "A man who has not sunk a molar into a fig newton has let much of life pass him by!" - Everett Dirksen

He does:
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

But of course, people like to gloss over the verses that would require them to do something positive and potentially not pleasing to themselves.

There are many lost passages, rejected, I suppose, for not being in line with leadership thinking at the time.

For example, see 1 Cabo 5:5 -

"...and then at the end of the Sabbath in the warm months when the sun has set, raise up the vessel of blending, and add in thirty and five measures of the distillation of Agave, and twenty measures of the distillation of orange, and fifteen measures of the fruit lime, and let those among you who can afford ice let them add that, and you will salt the very rim of the vessel, and be glad."

Nothing about snacks, though.

God told me not to post in this thread. So I won't.