(time index set to the Delphi segment)Mysteries of the Ancient World - Myths and Legends (at 43:15)
March 13, 2016 | Questar Entertainment
Posted on 12/12/2006 8:01:11 PM PST by dennisw
"Many scientists seem to believe that visionaries of various sorts were probably epileptics."
Many scientists are wrong.
I have spoken with Angels and seen strange things.
I am not epileptic.
Me too. Especially one night at Lando's in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico. There was this really good looking woman and a donkey....
I decided there was some real sicko things in this world and I needed to stay on this side of the border and be glad of a dull unenlightened life.
"shaken, not stirred."
Didn't Hitler have syphilitic dementia?
I have heard that too.
Too bad that the crazy fokker didn't swallow his tongue and choke to death - when he had his first seizure. How different world history would be.
Syphilis is a New World disease (for all practical purposes). For Mo to have had syphilis you'd have to credit him, or his society, with early discovery of the Americas.
There's really not much difference between the Sufi and the Quakers.
The Koran should be renamed the "Epileptic Pedophile Prophecies"
I've been saying this for years.
I've posted once in a while about the epileptic "visions" & "prophecies" of this phony baloney prophet
A distant relative, "The Ayatollah of Rock 'n Rolla!" has confirmed it as well!
When asked by a reporter from the Canton Repository if the same diagnosis could apply to Jesus, Buddha or other religious figures, Sadeghian replied there aren't nearly as many independent historical documents detailing their lives."
It wouldn't because the kind of seizures werent recounted in the comparable scriptures. But for Mohammed, there was ample evidence in the biographical record (via Quran and other scriptures) to indicate epilepsy as a possible source of his visions ...
"Returning to Khadija, he informed her of the visions. We are told that she accepted them as a true revelation from heaven, and encouraged him to announce his mission. Thereafter he had many similar visions. Often, when they came, he fell to the ground in a convulsion or swoon; perspiration covered his brow; even the camel on which he was sitting felt the excitement, and moved fitfully.' Mohammed later attributed his gray hairs to these experiences. When pressed to describe the process of revelation, he answered that the entire text of the Koran existed in heaven, and Gabriel communicated that one fragment at a time to him, usually. Asked how he could remember these divine discourses, he explained that the archangel made him repeat every word. Others who were near the Prophet at the time neither saw nor heard the angel.
Possibly his convulsions were epileptic seizures; they were sometimes accompanied by a sound reported by him as like the ringing of a bell, a frequent occurrence in epileptic fits. But we hear of no tongue- biting, no loss of prehensile strength, such as usually occurs in epilepsy; nor does Mohammed's history show that degeneration of brain power which epilepsy generally brings; on the contrary, he advanced in clarity of thought and in confident leadership and power until his sixtieth year.25 The evidence is inconclusive; at least it has not sufficed to convince any orthodox Mohammedan. "
http://www.sullivan-county.com/x/mecca.htm
Then there is this diagnosis:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5973
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Theophanes, a monk (752-817), wrote in his Chronography that Muhammad suffered from epilepsy. From that time most historians repeated this opinion. When in the late 19th century better notions of psychopathology became common, this diagnosis was challenged. Some thought his disease was hysteria or hystero-epilepsy, although for most scientists epilepsy was excluded. There was no definitive answer to this question. A better scientific examination of the sources has made clear that all symptoms of acromegaly are present with some psychopathological paranoid traits. Acromegaly is caused by a small tumour of the hypophysis, beginning most of the time about the fortieth year and ending in the sixtieth year with an apoplexy of the hypophysis."
See also this article:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina41204.htm
"He fell to the ground like one intoxicated or overcome by sleep; and in the coldest day his forehead would be bedewed with large drops of perspiration. Inspiration descended unexpectedly, and without any previous warning." [2]
"Then Allah's Apostle returned with that experience; and the muscles between his neck and shoulders were trembling till he came upon Khadija (his wife) and said, "Cover me!" They covered him, and when the state of fear was over" [3] and [4]
I actually agree with you, which is why one of the links I presented was a rebuttal of a similar argument used about Ellen White. I think these doctors who try to diagnose someone decades or centuries after their deaths are just silly conjecture at best and shouldn't be given much credence.
I am particularly on my guard when "scientists" abandon the canons of science and start forcing data in the face of supernatural phenomena, rather than doing the honest and scientifically correct thing, in certain circumstances, of declaring something "not scientifically explicable". They can add "Not scientifically explicable at this time and with the information currently available to science", if they don't want to seem to be lending credence to a reported supernatural phenomenon. However, for scientists, who know that the moniker "scientist" has about the same authoritative power as "oracle" did in the ancient world, to force data and give bad explanations which don't fit the facts, in order to "disprove" the supernatural...but not actually disproving it...this is snake oil selling.
I have seen and talked with Angels, and I am not epileptic. That's a fact. Now, a scientist might suggest tests to determine if I were crazy, or had a brain tumor, something like that, but the generic "People who see angels are epileptics" explanation sounds like science, but it is in fact an unscientific assertion of opinion. It's soothsaying.
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Mo probably got it from a Sheep-friend.
(time index set to the Delphi segment)Mysteries of the Ancient World - Myths and Legends (at 43:15)
March 13, 2016 | Questar Entertainment
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