Mountain Mist wrote:Who else has been to the Candlelight Vigil?
Mojo Filter wrote:Mountain Mist wrote:Who else has been to the Candlelight Vigil?
Only very strange people go to such events.
This thing is not even about Elvis. Most people who go there don't even know anything about him, so i'm told.
It's turned into a thing that's "a happening" an event.
It's all quite embarrassing!
John wrote:It's not something that has ever interested me. Even if I happened to be in Memphis, I wouldn't go to it. I haven't watched it either unless it's been part of a TV programme.
Colin B wrote:I had two people from a local Baptist church knock my door last Sunday & I told them a lack of evidence meant I didn't believe in their god.
Asking them why they 'believed' they explained they'd both had a moment of 'revelation' when god made himself known to them.
I asked why he hadn't revealed himself to me & they said I had to do some serious praying first & then he would !
I pointed out that that was circular & would mean having to 'believe' first in order to get evidence to make me a 'believer'.
They had no answer.
Discuss.
John wrote:Were they believers before the moment of revelation?
Colin B wrote:John wrote:Were they believers before the moment of revelation?
One didn't give any details, & I saw later [in some pamphlets they left] that he was the pastor of the church.
The other was a young tearaway who was reading a religious text one day, when it occurred to him that the words fitted exactly his situation.
Then he felt god enter his body & he has been with him ever since.
I asked him how he knew this 'feeling' was god & not just some sort of warm glow that came over him.
He couldn't say.
I pointed out that all he'd had was a 'change-of-heart' !
He'd simply changed his mindset from a non-believer to a believer which needed no supernatural involvement.
He offered no comment & just went quiet.
mike edwards wrote:They got you, Colin.
You were probably the first person that had actually engaged them all day.
They'll be back. Give it six months, you'll be out there with them.
John wrote:I wonder what the pastor's moment of revelation was?
I bet they went away saying a prayer for you.
Colin B wrote:Couldn't think where else to post this:
I thought that applied everywhere...
mike edwards wrote:Colin B wrote:If they come back, I'll invite them in, rather than chatting on the doorstep.
I doubt they'll have a convert.
I had regular visits & chats with some Jehova Witnesses for around 15 years & I ended up a more convinced atheist than when I started !
In the end, they stopped coming...
Flippin' heck, Colin! Baptists, Jehovah Witnesses. You're obviously searching for something.
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