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Offline Matthew

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Being wrong
« on: September 29, 2025, 11:20:23 AM »
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  • If I were to feed my children today because "God spoke to me this morning, and told me to", would I be RIGHT or WRONG?

    I would argue "WRONG".
    Even though the outcome (feeding my children) would be *accidentally* the correct course of action.
    I would be right, but for the wrong reason. Luck, not skill.

    I would advise people to NOT listen to voices in your head. Even if they get it right (accidentally) once in a while.

    You would have to argue against and correct a person who fed their children because "God spoke to me this morning and told me to." Because tomorrow, this voice (certainly not God) might tell you to do something crazy.

    Being "accidentally correct" in the objective sense is NOT everything. "How you got there" is much more important.
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    Re: Being wrong
    « Reply #1 on: September 29, 2025, 11:20:11 PM »
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  • Imagine this scenario: a man stops driving, totally up-ending his life, because it was "gravely and seriously unsafe", then 2 years later there was a breakdown in society, when going far from home -- especially by car -- resulted in getting attacked, carjacked, ambushed, etc.

    Would you say the man was "prescient" or "ahead of his time"? Of course not. He was a lunatic, and still is, albeit his warped reality EVENTUALLY happened to coincide with the real Reality due to BLIND LUCK alone.

    Imagine if he got on his high horse and declared he knew "all along" how dangerous driving was? You'd dismiss him as a lunatic.

    Being right 2 years early is not being right. It's literally being WRONG. Sometimes reality catches up eventually. That's not the same thing.
    Even a broken clock is right twice a day, right?

    How about I predict it's going to be over 100 degrees today. I'd be wrong day after day, throughout September, up until next May. But eventually I'd be proven RIGHT, when the temperature eventually, inevitably hits 100 next Summer. So my prediction "it's going to be over 100 degrees today" turned out to be TRUE -- just that it was 8 months early! Is that legit? Of course not.

    Moral of the story: Calling something or predicting something isn't the whole challenge; TIMING is important too!
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    Offline Mark 79

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    Re: Being wrong
    « Reply #2 on: September 30, 2025, 12:25:22 AM »
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  • Even a broken clock is right twice a day, right?…
    Actually, it depends on what you mean by "broken" and what kind of clock… a stopped 12-hour analog clock is right twice a day.… a stopped 24-hour analog clock is right once a day.

    If the "broken" clock is merely slow or erratic, the situation much more complicated. A 12-hour analog clock will be correct when it is initially set. If the slowed rate is consistent it will read correctly again at some point in the future, but at most no more than once a day. If the slowing is erratic, only God knows how often it will read correctly.

    Apologies for the digression… but it was a fun thought experiment.

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    Re: Being wrong
    « Reply #3 on: September 30, 2025, 04:41:39 AM »
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  • The prison psychiatrist Jerzy Marzinsky has concluded that the voices in someone's head are demons pushing the person towards dispair and ѕυιcιdє. https://youtu.be/W9wT6eWavqw?

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    Re: Being wrong
    « Reply #4 on: October 01, 2025, 12:31:33 AM »
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  • :laugh1: They’ve been talking to you, too? :laugh2: 


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    Re: Being wrong
    « Reply #5 on: October 01, 2025, 12:41:56 AM »
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  • Can you guys discern good voices between bad? Sometimes those thoughts result in good things happening but maybe its due to what Matthew said. Does God not speak to us through our heads? 
    "Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you." St. Matthew 11:28 

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    Re: Being wrong
    « Reply #6 on: October 01, 2025, 12:42:30 AM »
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  • :laugh1: They’ve been talking to you, too? :laugh2:
    yes lol
    "Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you." St. Matthew 11:28 

    Offline AnthonyPadua

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    Re: Being wrong
    « Reply #7 on: October 01, 2025, 01:48:38 AM »
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  • Can you guys discern good voices between bad? Sometimes those thoughts result in good things happening but maybe its due to what Matthew said. Does God not speak to us through our heads?
    Anyone hearing voices should read ascent of mt carmel and the spiritual combat and speak to their spiritual director.