Jesus Mythicist Position | Eddy - Midland, TX | Atheist Experience 21.03

The Atheist Experience episode 21.03 for January 22, 2017, with Matt Dillahunty and Tracie Harris.
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[@peteralleyman1945]

Every time Eddy said "I'm a rational person" a light bulb exploded in my house. Can I send him the bill?

[@dmclegg66]

Every time I punch the wall a hole appears every time that means a fairy did it.¡!!!!

[@williammeyer214]

Sorry to hear that, as a recovering catholic I decided to light a candle for you so that you may have “perpetual light shown upon you.”

[@liubomyrchahoub7271]

😂😂

[@patdavey2561]

This caller is such a good example of someone who has reversed themselves into a dead end.

[@bradleyhancock7507]

? Rehearsed

[@TheGillenium]

Caller: "yeah and i know you get the non-rational people that call in all the time." Matt: "...ok?" Caller: "I consider myself pretty rational." Matt: "So do they!" A certified diamond exchange right there.

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

With a full moon LUNATIC .................

[@markfuell7237]

@Hollow Shell This guy is world championship level stupid. But the worst part is he considers himself rational.

[@TrippyKenpachi]

Considers himself pretty rational, explains how a dog avoiding a room made him a theist.

[@CostyMz]

This guy is so open minded his hole brain fell out.

[@blissfuldj7627]

Whole

[@vic.smittie.5668]

​@@blissfuldj7627 Maybe there's a "hole" in his brain! 🤦🤣🤣🤣

[@MrEdwardCollins]

If the best that a god can do to show his/her existence, is to blow up a single light bulb, I'm not impressed.

[@lucy9698]

@@PraiseTheFSMonster Sounds like your God is more high-maintenance than a basic bitch-of-a-girlfriend 😂😉

[@VestigialHead]

+Edward Collins So are you saying that this guys Light Bulb Moment did not illuminate the sun, the father and the holy spirit for you? I did enjoy the way Matt and Tracie shattered his dull arguments, it really brightened up my day. Shine on you crazy diamond.

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

@@lucy9698 And cost MUCH more ...............

[@jonathanleach4086]

When my ex wife was angry, she broke light bulbs, tvs, bongs, video games, dvds, any thing that brought me joy in any measure. I do believe she is a dark spirit bread of suffering in the nether pit of endless despair. Her demonic godhood seems to be much greater than the christian gods

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

@@jonathanleach4086 Been there, done that ..................

[@cattflap1447]

Light bulbs are the ghosts of dead pears.

[@MrKErocks]

LOL That's great!

[@cattflap1447]

@Viktor Tandofsky Too bad you can't find your caps lock key.

[@kevinmathew6520]

YOU CANNOT PROVE A NEGATIVE. PLUS, NO ONE EVEN CARES TO DEBUNK MYTHOLOGY.

[@jaxonmn33]

@Viktor Tandofsky uhh, dude, You realise the ark story can be 100% proven to be false.

[@rrath876]

@Viktor Tandofsky I’m too high too high for this. Haha

[@ImNotaRussianBot]

How many Eddies does it take to change one light bulb?

[@stupidtreehugger]

Nice. What if his name if Eddy. How does one spell the plural of that?

[@ericmoore1493]

Take your racist comment elsewhere - you racist fuck...!!!

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

Like trump, they can not ........................

[@lucy9698]

@@ericmoore1493 Where did race even come from? What a tragic lack of a sense of humor.....

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

Was meinst Du ? ............@@andyvankerkhove6902

[@MC473428]

A light bulb literally blew up in my house the other day. Turns out it was an electrical issue and not a ghost.

[@andersbyttner1692]

My lightbulb exploded of all stubborness in this video!

[@kentonbaird878]

Who you gonna call?

[@deathdrake1]

​@@kentonbaird878 An electrician.

[@stupidtreehugger]

How do you know it was an electrical issue? Are you sure there was no deeply emotional charge around that lightbulb at the time of failure?

[@ricardovonkrypton8908]

But if you couldn't demonstrate that it was an electrical issue, THEN it's a ghost, right? :)

[@jinxy72able]

Yeah, Eddy's light bulb definitely went out.

[@meridien52681]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You win!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

Thanks to religion ................

[@ninjalokust]

His God really enjoys forcing people to live in the dark ages, so much so he destroys light sources to force darkness upon his believers.

[@ARoll925]

You mean exploded?

[@Heathen.Deity.]

Eddy, Eddy, Eddy. Listen to yourself on this recording, then try to claim you’re a rational person.

[@pgsmith22]

"The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'". Love it!

[@ericmadeoftin8206]

'People have discomfort with saying, I don't know" Well said Matt.

[@leonwoodley99]

I love how god/spirits are communicating via blown light bulbs

[@jacksimpson-rogers1069]

Buy white LED lights and abolish God. Help stamp out Theophagy.

[@meridien52681]

There are things that we can't explain, but jumping immediately to a belief in God is just unjustified and altogether ridiculous!

[@nuoiptertermer4484]

A Jesus mythicist is like flat Earther? This caller was in outer space insane.

[@kentonbaird878]

"People who don't believe Jesus the magical magician of the middle east existed are like people who think the world is flat! And I know this because a ghost did this thing with a lightbulb!" --Caller.

[@stupidtreehugger]

Yeah, nice, after, after you have a young death in your near family, then, then be even more humorous that that

[@oscargordon]

@@stupidtreehugger Yeah, my son died when he was three years old. I sacrificed my prized goat to Baal and he came back to life and grew up to be a successful investment banker. True story!

[@stupidtreehugger]

​@@oscargordon, nice story, I especially like the happy ending. Where's a good goat when you need one. Although, I thought Baal was the god of the harvest, not in the business of animal sacrifices?

[@audience7264]

"I have a rational mind..." then proceeds to demonstrate his irrationality.

[@sterlingarcher4989]

‘I’m open minded to everything.....well, OTHER than what you’re saying’

[@onepoorguy]

Correlation does not necessarily equal causation. Eddie was a very confused, almost desperate, young man.

[@sharonsmilesphotography5553]

@@PraiseTheFSMonster and this is the explanation for where religion originated.

[@AlexWh1]

Sometimes, gullibility is confused with open-mindedness ...

[@joecoolioness6399]

I am open minded, my mind can be changed and has been changed many times by actual evidence, not feelings or stories.

[@t_hizzity]

I hate the "I'm a rational person so the only explanation is ghosts" bit. I've heard people say it in real life, too.

[@LAkadian]

Too bad you hate it.

[@AbrahamMeat]

Lukas Akadian tOo bAd YoU hAtE iT

[@ARoll925]

It is really frustrating, dude is clearly not rational

[@Jules_73]

The house that my Aunt died in had a lightbulb that would seem to turn on and off on its own. My cousin was convinced it was her ghost. I investigated it and it turned out to be a loose wire. It’s easy to convince yourself if you choose to believe something without ruling out the real possibilities before saying it was some unnatural entity…

[@shawnrenaud2252]

So, what you're saying is that you performed an exorcism! 🤓

[@Jules_73]

@@shawnrenaud2252 I never thought of it that way! lmao

[@clare2401]

"God, God, lightbulb, God, God," ....40 mins later and I'm still waiting for salvation

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

Not today, I`m busy stoning unruly kids and non-believers to death ..................

[@omega_saxonia]

my pc went blue screen watching this. the devil doesn´t want me to listen to theists calling

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

Mine too ...............

[@kidd32888]

I can't think of a better explanation

[@mylord9340]

Eddy has a misunderstanding that many theists have about being an atheist. Eddy says that he was an atheist turned theist and that implies a special status. Eddy and theists who promote their prior atheism imply that they switched because either really good argument proved convincing or that spiritual experiences overcame their lack of belief. People are atheists for different reasons, however. Some are atheists because they may not want to do all those "churchy" things, or because they do not want to give up their lifestyle, or because they had a bad experience with the church, etc. Not all people that claim to be atheist have a proper skeptical approach to life. Not all atheists understand how to think critically. One can be an atheist in early life and never had interest to determine whether religions have any credibility, then when older, or after a near death experience, or life's adversity, or a love interest, religion and god becomes a matter of interest. When such a person becomes convinced of theism, they proclaim .."I was an atheist first, but special experiences that I can't explain convinced me that Jesus created the world." An atheist is just someone who finds no sufficient evidence to believe that a god exists. That's all. The descriptor does not say anything about the person's ability to think critically or skeptically. An atheist can be just as uncritical in thought as everyone else. What is important is to have an effective methodology by which one can determine what is likely to be true from what is false. It requires an understanding of what proper constitutes evidence and an understanding of the different types of evidence.

[@stupidtreehugger]

What is important is using paragraphs. And, making big strong families no matter what the cost. The 3rd World understand that

[@joecoolioness6399]

Honestly, I don't think you choose to believe either way. I don't choose to believe that trees are real, I have climbed many of them. I don't choose not to believe in a god, there is just no reason that I have been given that warrants that belief. Every believer has somehow been convinced by bad reasons. Maybe they are only around other believers and they believe because they simply don't know any better. Or, as you pointed out, something happens to them and they lack the intellect to realize that god doing it was not the only explanation.

I never believe Xtians who pretend they were once atheists. They decided to throw away their rational brain and believe in goober?

[@D-me-dream-smp]

The biggest clue that points to the unreliability of theism is that most religions closely align with geographical location and hence cultural influences. A significant proportion of theists choose the religion they have had the most exposure to (a reason why indoctrination from birth is a significant tenet of religion). Most people will follow the religion of their family of origin. An example is near death experiences where people will claim to see/feel “God” yet it is almost always just happens to be the one from their own affiliation.

[@mylord9340]

@@D-me-dream-smp agree!

[@MrEdwardCollins]

I don't understand something... therefore, it must be GOD!

[@richdandanell2911]

That is the exact line of thinking throughout the whole history of religion all the way back to the very beginning . Religion was born out of ignorance and keeps all it's believers trapped in it's ignorance .

[@jesusgrc1762]

I can at least credit Eddy for persistently trying to redefine the word “rational”

[@jwake4803]

"The plural of anecdote isn't data". Gold!

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

If you tell that to christians, they will stone you to death .....................

[@TheGamingLegendsOfficial]

Technically, it is. Nobody ever said it was good data

[@alasdairwhyte6616]

repeat the experiment, say her name and watch the studio light go out LOL

[@nocalsteve]

I have a picture in my head of Jeff Dee standing next to the light switch.

[@PhilipLeitch]

How dare he suggest your almighty rooster does not bring forth the sun. All hail the roster.

[@daithimac5785]

Here they come to snuff the rooster, You know he ain't gonna die

[@Artboyor]

long may he reign. Arise sun rooster! bring forth the light!

[@johns1625]

HAIL RÖSTRÉ

[@buzzee9961]

Tracy was great in this one

[@rationalmartian]

Tracy is often great. Even when she only gives a very small input it can often a piercing example that makes people think or question or illustrates a point being missed.

[@nickydaviesnsdpharms3084]

i liked it when she said ''u could mesion her name again around other lightbulbs'' lol

[@Jules_73]

If these incidents happened in Midland Texas where he says he’s from, then the rock quarries in the town would easily explain pictures falling off the wall. I lived near a quarry and the blasting would loosen up all sorts of things in my house including random pictures falling off the walls.

[@Njv0729]

The "open minded" excuse is so infuriating. I hear friends and loved ones cite it all the time, and they twist it to the point where any healthy skepticism or investigation which does not instantly confirm to or support their unfounded beliefs are labeled as "closed-mindedness". And in that way, they smugly adopt what they think is the intellectually superior position, when it's exactly the opposite. It drives me NUTS.

[@johnsperry9494]

“Atheists are closed-minded.” Really? Watch the evolution vs creation debate between Bill Nye and Ken Hamm. Nye’s arguments were very rational, detailed, easy to understand, based on science. All of Hamm’s arguments boiled down to “It’s in the Bible!” At the end, the moderator asked both debaters what would change their minds. Hamm said, “Nothing!” Nye said, “Evidence.” So, who has a closed mind?

[@johns1625]

Even worse is "I don't like science because it removes the beauty and mystery from the world" 🤮

[@russbroda7207]

Love that - “yes , I have had hallucinations but not all the time. “

[@letters_from_paradise]

He's not just open-minded, he's cut his head in half and his brain's exposed

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

And they could NOT find any ....................

[@bobbynewutz1929]

Dogs sense of smell is highly attuned to smells related to death, especially dead people. Domesticated kinds of dogs anyway.

[@joecoolioness6399]

Dead things smell bad, so it makes perfect evolutionary sense for a carnivore to have a highly developed sense of smell. Much easier to snack on something not trying to fight you or outrun you.

[@dogearflopper7011]

32:13 "How do you know that they're butler attacks?" This is one of the reasons why I love thought experiments.

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

Aspiring Con-Man Eddy, you got to learn more, before you will be succesful ....................

[@michaelrch]

Paul said he met "the brother of the lord". He also said we are all brothers in Christ, so.... Carrier has a strong defence of this.

[@Tartaggz]

He kept saying he was open minded, but he kept making logical fallacies. That’s the definition of being CLOSE-MINDED. It’s oxymoronic.

[@felixlafreniere860]

How ironic is it that you call out logical fallacies while you are making one?

[@nosfrattirek5690]

The lightbulb thing... urgh, why is it always the same? "Holy shit [some version of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy]!" REPEAT THE EXPERIMENT. Do it again, test, investigate, use the scientific method for crying out loud!

[@LPCLASSICAL]

Francis Collins - there was a sceptic who have Francis Collins as an example of a theist who has a vast knowledge and somehow this gave credence to his theistic beliefs. Then I looked up the waterfall experience and just laughed my head off. Another incomplete scientist.

[@TMPreRaff]

Stuart "incomplete" scientist? He's a partial scientist?

[@LPCLASSICAL]

@@TMPreRaff How can a scientist accept any position on faith? It runs contrary to what science is. That is why I say Collins is an incomplete scientist.

[@rationalmartian]

Indeed. Collins is an awful shocking example of how even otherwise rational intelligent people can con themselves into accept all manner of preposterous horseshit. On some level I'm sure he knows this, and is at least slightly embarrased and chagrinned. In Bill Maher's Religilous documentary/mockumentary there is a piece where Maher interviews Collins and asks him some questions. Collins is clearly a little uncomfortable and realises what ridiculous cack he is talking. Especially for an intelligent eminent scientist. It is worth checking out if you have never seen it. I find it hard to credit he can be so aware his beliefs are preposterous, yet still go along with it. Religious and faith based beliefs are inherently dishonest and anti intellectual. I find it difficult to conceive of personally.

[@mylesc.7358]

I love Tracy's analogy about the traffic light, somewhere around 37:55

[@NerdOutWithMe]

Some people just want to believe.

[@FourDeuce01]

Eddy: "I consider myself a reasonable man." Nobody with a working brain would. :p Eddy appeals to John Lennox. That didn't help his credibility. :/

[@plowenson]

0×1000 = 1, according to the caller..

[@tedgrant2]

I have no idea how my Japanese TV works. Are there little Japanese people inside, making it work . Just a theory of mine. Rational.

[@jimmorgan8688]

But a ghost attacked a CNN cameraman! LOL! 😂🤣😂

[@Fraterchaoraterchaos]

Eddy believes "rational" means what seems to make sense to me and is comfortable. Actually investigating is being "closed minded"

[@vincesnetterton5868]

eddy, grow up

[@tetsujin_144]

1:39 - "How do you meet the brother of a mythical guy?" True story, I met Superman's brother one time. He's technically a foster brother I guess, he's human, no superpowers or anything, but it was him, for real. Said he and Superman grew up together out in the sticks somewhere, didn't want to be too specific, apparently he even changed his name to help protect Superman's identity. He tried to sell me some crystals, bunch of them in a little plastic bag, said they were from Superman's space ship or something. Sounded like a great deal but unfortunately when I said I didn't have any money on me he moved on.

[@Kausarniyazee]

lost count of number of times I cringed when he called himself rational, open minded, blah blah.....I mean seriously seriously seriously?

[@joecoolioness6399]

Kinda like when someone says "I'll make a long story short", you know you better get a snack.

[@atheistgenocideinthebible1102]

That’s why I liked Tracie!!!

[@chronochrome7837]

"Now this is CNN." Great. Thanks for stressing that I should completely dismiss the story as a fabrication.

[@toptester301]

Watched the CNN clip, and I have a reasonable conclusion, ratings.

[@joecoolioness6399]

Up next, footage of an actual alien autopsy!

[@billroland6307]

Once you realize this stuff is silly, you feel so sorry for friend and family that spout this silliness.

[@DadPoolReturns]

"The plural of anecdote isn't data." -Matt Dillahunty

[@richardthomas9856]

There is an argument strategy that I call the "dance around" in which one proclaims one view "I don't have a high view of scripture" but also claims that the mythicist view of Jesus is no more justified than a belief in a flat earth.

[@ARoll925]

I'm surprised matt didn't follow up on that really, like neither do I, so why would you believe it

[@druidriley3163]

The second Eddy said he spoke her name before and nothing happened killed his argument right there.

[@brettjohnson6374]

Main takeaway, we are not all that much brighter than chickens. Damn.

[@anonymouswhiterabbit]

Lmfao, “Mention her name around other lightbulbs” hahaha I love it.

[@LOwens-xf8yo]

That one busted my gut! So damn funny!

[@sonsclan4308]

edddy mentioned his friend a lot in that convo, so he should have witnessed a lot of experiences but didn't. hmmm

[@sageand94]

He got tired of replacing them every day

[@stevenaustin8274]

A rational theist is an oxymoron

[@jacksimpson-rogers1069]

I'm sorry to tell you that it is not so. I have theist friends, none of them morons, and folk who are rational most of the time.

[@michaelsmeltz2363]

I’m kinda understanding why his friend/roommate killed herself, though. Also, if any of Eddy’s other friends killed themselves, that’s a demonstration of causation.

[@joecoolioness6399]

wow, brutal! made me chuckle though...

[@sageand94]

[@badatheist9948]

this guy is just like a flat earther.

[@jeremybentham3313]

A smooth brainer

[@ARoll925]

Yep, completely confident in their asinine bullshit

[@rtt3114]

maybe time to stop using drugs eddy

[@Barkhuizen1975]

He is so open minded that his brain fell out!

[@VestigialHead]

Another person who never learnt the basics of how to test validity or to try to prove something. How is the education system failing so many people? Amazes me that someone who finds multiple things they can NOT explain and then goes on to decide this means the supernatural. To me and most rational thinking people finding multiple unexplained thing means hmm - we need to explain them. If we cannot we need to expand our scientific knowledge until we can explain them. Assigning a supernatural cause should NEVER be the result of considering an unexplained event.

[@racebannon5523]

The light bulbs didn't blow up we know he's lying you should have just told him to get lost to discourage other Liars from calling in

[@MrKhushrenada]

I used to live in a house where a light fixture was mounted on the wall with light bulbs not hooked to the electrical net, the wires were just hanging behind it and once it flashed multiple times (the story was that the house was haunted) and still don't believe in ghosts or god. I'm cool with not knowing how and why it happened. But it makes for an amusing story.

[@joecoolioness6399]

There is a house on a lonely road away from the city near where I live. It was rumored to be haunted because every time you parked under the street light, it would turn off. So we went out there and parked under the light and sure enough, it turned off. We left, parked far enough away so that we could just see the light and it came back on a few minutes later. With no other cars parking under it, a few minutes later it turned off again. We watched it for an hour and the pattern repeated itself. We even went back and parked under it and stayed long enough so that it turned back on. So what is more likely, some ghost in the house is causing the light to turn on and off or there is an electrical issue causing it to turn on and off on it's own?

[@loly1969]

faith is a sickness , god is only an emotional attitude :)

[@John__Dough]

Am I do only one that laughs, and finds these debates funny?

[@sharonsmilesphotography5553]

Eddy here is an explanation...cheap light bulbs.

[@Fraterchaoraterchaos]

solving a mystery with a bigger mystery

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

Sounds like someone who just couldn't let go of their loved one. Edit: Read a bunch of the comments below. You guys should remember that he just lost someone he cared a lot about and how much that can affect a normally rational mind.

[@Codswallop58]

Eddy from Midland Texas says he's a rational person. That word doesn't mean what he thinks it does?

[@STGFilmmakers]

“You could mention her name around other lightbulbs”. 🤣 🤣 he never even thought to do that.

[@ljthurlbeck8700]

Ooooooh! God blew up a lightbulb! I'm sooo impressed!!

[@nuoiptertermer4484]

Lightbulbs usually explode when manufacturers don’t put enough insulation on the base of the bulb which causes the base to melt and allows the gas to leak out. The leaking gas causes a pressure difference which causes the lightbulb to explode. So, that’s probably what happened.

[@antoniorobles8706]

Nope, ghosts are the cause of the exploding bulbs. I mean, see the CNN, man! And be rational and open minded like me!

[@queenkhadija4627]

Thank you! 🥂

[@vinsanity982]

Just watched the CNN ghost attack footage. You may be surprised to learn that there was no attack. Just a part where the camera man says he mysteriously got a scratch on his wrist. Also saw a door close and a couple of shadows

[@Deebz270]

A better experiment would have been: replacing the lamp a number of times (a set of used lamps and a set of new lamps), each time mentioning the suicide vicitms name. . Glass used in old style lamps is not perfectly consistent (because it is glass). Many times lamps (light bulbs) just blow, new or old.

[@drhexagonapus]

So Jesus had a brother? Is he also the son of god? Or is he a half brother? On which side?

[@tigerstyle4505]

I remember when The God That Wasn't There came out and me and a few of my punk friends watched it. The power flashed as soon as we Turned it on and we all ctfu laughing. But one guy in the room decided it was a sign that we shouldn't be watching it and tried to get us to stop when we turned it back on lol We were in FLORIDA and the weather has been bad on and off ALL DAY 😂 All of us were militant atheists at a pretty young age. All came from religious families and all knew better (a power outage in FL is as common as it gets tbh lol) but this one dude left and got really upset about the whole thing. Sad shit this stuff does to folks.

[@Gainoffuntion]

I believe in God because u guys have the patience of saints with these theists

[@CrazyRandomLord]

The word missing from this whole discussion is "confirmation biase"

[@SevenSelah]

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

[@FourDeuce01]

"In Galatians, Paul said he met jesus's brother." So if Paul said he met Harry Potter, you'd believe Harry Potter existed? "I'm saying I'm a rational person." IF you were a rational person, you wouldn't have to say you're a rational person. You could SHOW it. :p "My scientific side..." I think IF you ever had a scientific side, it committed suicide before you called the show. ;)

[@2msystems740]

"I don't hold much in scripture... but the bible says" Ya, right. Cultists disowning their "Desert-dwellers Guide to Slavery" when it suits their purposes. Priceless.

[@amadeusradio9608]

People do not understand Bob Price's view on the 7 pauline epistles. Bob disputes pauline authorship insofar as he thinks Paul is not a historical person either. The magic seven might have been written by the same person, but not such Paul. Anyway, Bob does think the epistles are patchwork quilts, by marcionite scribes. It's not unheard of. Pretty much the same procedure that happened in the compilation of the book of Isaiah.

[@mthokozisilanga4497]

The caller is confused, the people in the Bible say that what they experienced is were caused by God, Jesus, Holy Spirits, angels. How then does he says they were unknown experiences like his. Again, how would he conclude that his experiences are caused by the God of the Bible, not Buddah, Allah, Ogun, Nomkhulukwane, Qamata or Mvelingqangi? What made him decide to read the Bible and not other holy books?

[@tetsujin_144]

"Let me challenge you with a question that reflects some angle of your position that I don't think you've adequately considered." "Well I wasn't even going to take us in that direction..."

[@tedgrant2]

I've got a friend who has been to Popeye's village on the island of Malta. This confirms that the cartoons are accurate.

[@brucebaker810]

Where, in Canon (or Canaan) is "Popeye, Village, Malta?

[@tedgrant2]

@@brucebaker810 On the north coast.

[@n0w3lly90]

How did he rule out: - a power surge - a wet or dry joint on a cable to the bulb - a faulty or wrongly installed or unseated fuse - a bulb that was already on its way out to the end of its life combined with one of the above? - how about the bulb being seating wrong in the socket? Any number of electrical issues would need investigating or ruling out before even poseting anything else! And... 0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0 still do not = 1!!

[@thickerconstrictor9037]

But here is the thing that people don't seem to think about. The people who wrote about Jesus could have made everything up. I'm not saying that I'm a mythicist but just because someone writes about it doesn't mean it actually happened. Literally it could be complete bullshit. It could be a story it could be a lie it could be a mistake it could be a hundred different things in the mythicist position could still be correct.

[@mikealexander2005]

Poor dude is just trying to grasp the loss of his friend by their own hand. This is why religion is so insidious. Quit giving people false hope. That friend is gone. Learn what you can learn, grieve that friend and move on. Good luck to you.

[@djbare9]

In my youth haunted houses was an adventure to me, I definitely understand how the caller feels, it's too easy for us to want assign something magical to the unexplained, it's thrilling, it's exciting, and yes we do exaggerate our story's in an attempt not to look foolish, which I believe the caller was doing "I had all these different experiences", we lie to ourselves believing that lie because we don't want to shatter the magic. story's can also migrate, I was in a house and witnessed a mural on a wall rise to the ceiling, except that never happened, I witnessed no such thing, it was a story told to me when I was a child, but in my magical thinking it became my story, we very easily deceive ourselves no matter how rational we like to think we are, I now prefer the saying "keep an open mind but no so much that your brains falls out."

[@tedgrant2]

Apparently, Jesus was God and he was dead for 36 hours. Which means the universe can run itself quite well without God. Or at least without the trinity.

[@ringo666]

The written assertion by one person that someone had a brother is a preponderance of evidence? Pretty low standard of evidence. As far as the dog goes -- dogs have a sense of smell far more sensitive than ours. Easy to believe that there was some residue left in that room that repelled the dog. Dead body smell can "soak in" to wall surfaces, ceilings, etc. Documented.

[@SplashyCannonBall]

Bill Donahue. With an A. Look it up.

[@brucemadge8147]

Some people are just so gullible and dumb it's amazing they are still alive. That is to say, it's a wonder they have the common sense to feed and water themselves regularly in order to maintain life. Poor Eddie. What a jerk.

[@lagodifuoco313]

"I know a lot of things I experienced were hallucinations." I'm done.