Visual depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.

[Ryder]

"solution to the religion problem"

BWAHA ! That made me laugh.

Contraversial.

I say the religions all go into a room, and dont fucking come back out until they can all agree on some sort of mutual and cohesive story which makes any sort of sence. Each religions credability is absolutely Thermonuclear bombed into absurdity by, well, the other 3,000 religions on earth.

These contradictions are a better deterant to religious belief than i could ever accomplish.

[Curvy Goonette]

Glad I could make you laugh Spanky.

[bobGandalf]

Interesting read on a study about changing a man's sense of self. Also thought the three Jesus experiment was funny.


In the late 1950s, three men who identified as the Son of God were forced to live together in a mental hospital. What happened?


In the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach was gripped by an eccentric plan. He gathered three psychiatric patients, each with the delusion that they were Jesus Christ, to live together for two years in Ypsilanti State Hospital to see if their beliefs would change. The early meetings were stormy. "You oughta worship me, I'll tell you that!" one of the Christs yelled. "I will not worship you! You're a creature! You better live your own life and wake up to the facts!" another snapped back. "No two men are Jesus Christs. … I am the Good Lord!" the third interjected, barely concealing his anger.


Frustrated by psychology's focus on what he considered to be peripheral beliefs, like political opinions and social attitudes, Rokeach wanted to probe the limits of identity. He had been intrigued by stories of Secret Service agents who felt they had lost contact with their original identities, and wondered if a man's sense of self might be challenged in a controlled setting. Unusually for a psychologist, he found his answer in the Bible. There is only one Son of God, says the good book, so anyone who believed himself to be Jesus would suffer a psychological affront by the very existence of another like him. This was the revelation that led Rokeach to orchestrate his meeting of the Messiahs and document their encounter in the extraordinary (and out-of-print) book from 1964, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti.

http://www.slate.com/id/2255105/pagenum/all/

[detrockgirl]

That sounds like a good book.

[Ryder]

Hey,

Its wierd how the 2nd coming of Christ is foretold in many religious documents,

Yet whenever someone claims to be Jesus he's locked up. What if Jesus keeps returning in different guises and has spent the last century in various mental institutions ?

Y'see, the world needs me to think of these things.

[bobGandalf]

Hahaha...good one. I think he was in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"