Amaleq13

I might help if you looked up the actual word being used in the discussion (ie manic). You might also want to consult a dictionary of psychological terminology to obtain relevance.

The superstitious beliefs of Americans is not relevant.

Stick to things you do understand. :wave:

Clouseau

manic adj psychol characteristic of, relating to or suffering from mania Chambers 21st century Dictionary

As I have already mentioned. But you brought them up.

Amaleq13

Your plainly inadequate knowledge base is starting to look intentional, now. I'm not interested in teaching a Psych 101 class. :wave:

No, that was you. I mentioned modern examples of what I had seen in the participants of allegedly miraculous healings to dispute your claim that "manic" was not appropriate to describe such an event.

This will be my final response to your nonsense on this subject. You've already wasted too much time and space trying to defend ignorance.

Clouseau

Chambers is widely used by professional writers. I used the very best non-specialist dictionary, one that would be understood by and acceptable to the generality of readers here.

You mentioned what may be modern caricatures.

neilgodfrey

We first hear of Paul was being an apostle to the heretics.

If the name Paul is related to the meaning of "small" then it may be significant to note that gnostic texts that stressed Jesus becoming "Small" in his humiliation of descent into the flesh or the lower realm and the world.

I've posted back in February this year a blog post suggesting a link here. But it contains links within it that are fiddly to transfer across to here. You can read it at http://vridar.wordpress.com/2007/02/...ing-the-small/

(Further, and on a different tack entirely, if the Simon Magus myth can be traced to Paul as Detering argues, then don't we have the possibility of the author of Acts making up the pre-conversion name of Saul from one of those word games where Simon and Paul are combined?)

Neil

http://vridar.wordpress.com