Any One Here Suffer From A God Complex?

Discussion in 'Mental Health' started by Moonglow181, Sep 15, 2014.

  1. thedope

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    Since you asked Dejavu the godlike qualities we share are no where more focused then the power to create conditions through speech.
     
  2. thedope

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    Male at that.
     
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  3. The Imaginary Being

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    just curious. why only small??
     
  4. The Imaginary Being

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    heya... nice to hear from ya
     
  5. MeAgain

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    The story I posted refers to an experience related by Richard Alpert in his book Be Here Now. As I remember it his brother had been committed to a mental institution because he had the notion that he was God. Richard was visiting him and his brother voiced his amazement that Alpert had long hair and a beard, wore prayer beads and an Indian robe and sandals, called himself Baba Ram Dass and preached about his experiences with the divine and yet no one thought he was crazy. His brother looked and acted "normal" but he was confined in a mental ward and Richard wasn't.

    To which Alpert replied that the difference was that he believed everyone was God while his brother just believed he alone was.

    Many people have had valid spiritual experiences that are very similar and have been cataloged as to type, depth, truthfulness et cetera by many different cultures. However, when any individual has these experiences they are always subjectively interpreted based on that individual's cultural biases, personal understandings, education, indoctrination, spiritual development and so on.

    Some understand these experience on a very personal level, some do not. Depending on the society that they find themselves imbedded in, if they do take a very person stance, they may be seen as a god like figure, or maybe a prophet, or perhaps insane by that society.

    I am not commenting on any specific individual, just on the phenomenon in general as I understand it.
     
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  6. MeAgain

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    I apologize for hiding several posts in this thread, but I felt they were off topic.

    If you disagree please don't blame each other, it was Me.

    PM me if you have a beef with what I've done in this thread, I don't mind.

    :)
     
  7. thedope

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    Also hairy?
     
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  8. NoxiousGas

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    I did have district manager years ago who thought he was near perfection, his name was Bob Godlasky, we all just called Bob God, because he thought he was.
    and now that I recall he was a real asshole towards me, so yeah, I have suffered from a "God complex", not mine though, just some dickwad who had the reigns on my career at the time.
     
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  9. Dejavu~

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    Meagain's got a mod complex? Does this hiding of posts mean they can be unhidden? Let's have everything, our beef too, out in the open!

    I see. So they were both mistaken.
     
  10. Dejavu~

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    Oh? Speech? You're certain? Which "God" are such qualities like? Your invocation's as naught to the stillest thought. :-D

    My post that was hidden in Meagains editing frenzy : "thedope is a member :-D Stop paining him moon! ;-D"
     
  11. Moonglow181

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    Deja Vu! Great to see you! So it takes threads such as these to get you back in circulation, eh? :)

    Dope, so sorry to pain you.....:(

    Hi, all.....Top of the day to you, Meagain....:)
     
  12. thedope

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    He stated plainly his beef and it is his prerogative.

    My wife considered Ram Dass her spiritual teacher and followed him around a while. He gave her prayer beads.

    It is true that Alpert and Leary got shafted in the ass by Harvard and he was conflicted about his own sexuality for a while. At one time he considered himself an atheist until he took LSD.

    The thought comes first and then we said light is here or it is there or it is absent from this or that. Nothing was hidden. Oh that would be creator god.
     
  13. thedope

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    Figure of speech. Happy makes me happy, happier to see you so.
     
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  14. Moonglow181

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    The Dope, do you think people get possessed by the dead ever? This is a serious question....nothing bad intended.,I have been thinking about this and seriously want to know your thoughts. Guess it should be another topic...but that's ok...... :)
     
  15. thedope

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    I think people can become obsessed with thoughts. I also think think that no significant or memorable relationship we ever have had ever ends but they do wax and wane in relative importance over time.
     
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  16. Moonglow181

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    As I have always thought, as well, but thoughts can go off into strange places sometimes, I think......
    Also, if seeing someone exhibiting the same things exactly as one was like that died...I have had the feeling of seeing a clone lately, and it is just too uncanny......but probably, logically, I am just seeing the same traits and things.....I never saw another human like this person before though, that I knew. I know I am not being specific, and cannot be...., but that is why I wondered.

    and both the person that died and new person seem to want to own me.....and control me...same things.,..same feelings....same nightmares....so to speak.....

    so for me it is the same hell.....again so to speak...but then I have heard people recreating things exactly to never change patterns.....and if I created this ...it is all subconscious on my part.
     
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    Ever try to befriend a mountain lion?
     
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  18. Dejavu~

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    Free speech gets me in. ;-D



    lol That he wants our beef in private, while his own can go as it pleases? Are we all mods here or what? I hesitate to ask, but what did your wife do with his beads? :-D



    How melodramatic. Has he gotten over it yet? God, I mean.

    Let's never forget that thedope beat a raccoon to death with a stick in a hen-house.
     
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  19. Dejavu~

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    Nothing was hidden, it's true. And true too, the thought comes, despite your inordinate push for its order. What creator "god"?
     
  20. storch

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    I recall that incident. I looked into it further some months ago and found that justice did prevail, as thedope is now on a raccoon-predator watch-list.

    In fact, if you drive past his place, you’ll see posters of his face tacked on to the telephone pole beside the road in front of his house and also on the front of his mailbox where any unsuspecting raccoons will see it before it’s too late. And the posters have to be lit up at night with an array of LED lights, which thedope is responsible for maintaining.

    The authorities wanted the posters to show thedope with a dead coon hanging from his mouth, but he got a good lawyer who got them to omit the dead coon from the poster.
     
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