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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 319286" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Didn't there used to be jokes about people who said "I am God"?</p><p></p><p>Like the one about the government official doing a tour of a psychiatric ward at the local hospital. The bloke was introduced to a patient who announced, "I'm Napoleon."</p><p></p><p>The official asked the man, "Who told you that?"</p><p></p><p>"God told me," replied the patient.</p><p></p><p>"I did not!" announced the patient in the next bed.</p><p></p><p>I remember reading an analysis of the various forms of religious practices that place God in different places. The "I am God" versions compared with the "God is everywhere including in me" vs "God is over there, I am not perfect therefore I cannot have God in me, I need to be clean" type of things; what they say about the individual and attitudes towards God as well as self as well as the rest of humanity.</p><p></p><p>The big risk of the "I am God" brigade is the degree of ego inflation and sense of superiority. Spirituality aside, there is a lot of danger in this, in terms of the psychiatric health of the individual. A sense of entitlement, of grandiosity, can lead to some very nasty mistakes.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 319286, member: 1991"] Didn't there used to be jokes about people who said "I am God"? Like the one about the government official doing a tour of a psychiatric ward at the local hospital. The bloke was introduced to a patient who announced, "I'm Napoleon." The official asked the man, "Who told you that?" "God told me," replied the patient. "I did not!" announced the patient in the next bed. I remember reading an analysis of the various forms of religious practices that place God in different places. The "I am God" versions compared with the "God is everywhere including in me" vs "God is over there, I am not perfect therefore I cannot have God in me, I need to be clean" type of things; what they say about the individual and attitudes towards God as well as self as well as the rest of humanity. The big risk of the "I am God" brigade is the degree of ego inflation and sense of superiority. Spirituality aside, there is a lot of danger in this, in terms of the psychiatric health of the individual. A sense of entitlement, of grandiosity, can lead to some very nasty mistakes. Marg [/QUOTE]
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