[She's so happy that her child had a nightmare.]
My Son said "Mommy I need to talk to you" So i sat down he said I had a scarry dream.....he said he dreamed:: we were driving in a car me him his brother and the windows were up and he could see many tornados everywhere (twisters he called them) he said he seen many and they were around our church we used to attend but we moved so we have started going to another church. anyways he said he heard a voice say " (which totally amazed me!)I am that i am...I am jesus christ the son of God"" and then suddenly we vanished! he said he could see our clothes on the ground and that he was looking down from Heaven through a hole and could see FIRE AND TORNADOES EVERYWHERE THE GRASS WAS BURNING ! tHEN the hole closed up..he woke up at that moment.
Now this is a dream my 9 year old had. not to mention i have had a few rapture dreams and tsunami dreams past months..i have posted my rapture dreams---I have no doubt this dream was from god that my son had!!! WOW [happy dancing emoticon]
GOD IS AWESOME ..THIS DREAM HE HAD WAS RECENT TOO MAYBE 2 MONTHS AT MOST.....jESUS IS ON HIS WAY TO RESCUE US..CAN YOU FEEL IT?!?
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They are dreams. As in, works of fiction cobbled together by your subconcious from things you've experienced - like, say, reading about the rapture on boards like RR. I once dreamt that I was playing a new Metroid game, all jumping around and laying bombs to damage a boss. That doesn't necessarily mean I'm going to play a new Metroid game, although that's far more likely than Super Jesus swooping out of the sky to take you to heaven.
Wow, I've had that dream except for the Jesus thing. Let me guess: you constantly tell your kids that Jesus is going to take them to heaven and destroy the world? Hmmmm, I wonder how a common nightmare turned into that...
szenah
Ever hear of a non-fundie having a rapture dream? No? What do you think that means?
Why, it means they're not going to be saved, of course!
Right. My Child the Rapture Prophet.
I learned about children's imagination when I took that Red Cross course for social contact volunteers. One of the subject handled was grief, and the priest making the presentation told us to always be straight-forward with the children, never hide anything from them when explaining cause of death of a loved one, and never try to 'shield them' during the grief/funeral process. No metaphors (the kids don't understand them), and no hiding facts. Just tell the kid what happened, as in 'you need to breathe to live, and he didn't want to live, so he made it so that he couldn't breathe' to explain a hanging.
I, and I think many others, were shocked by this, but his reason, he explained, was that children have pretty strong imaginations. If you don't tell them how a friend or family member died, they'll start thinking of ways themselves, and even a little child is surprisingly good at thinking up the most grisly things.
Same thing with fundies and the rapture. If you tell a child that something horrible will happen, you beat they'll build on it. If children could write as good as adults, the number of horror stories in the world would multiply by the hundreds.
@ Oyvind:
I think you are correct--children will frequently "fill in the gaps" in what their parents tell them with things which to adults are a bit strange.
As far as this dream is concerned, a lot of people have dreams about terrible catastrophic events. The fact that this dream had religious overtones is because his idiot parents indoctrinate him with that Rapture bullshit.
i had a dream that jesus appeared and started breakdancing to "raindrops keep falling on my head", does that mean that its really gonna happen, coz if so, ill be laughing my arse off for days upon days.
Mr Smith: Your comment is utter win.
Well, I had a dream that there was a giant war between pepperpots and a bunch of cyberthingies and then... hold on, that was Doctor Who, my bad
Yeah it's funny, dreams - take sleep paralysis for example. For those steeped in religion the presence they often feel oppressing them is demonic; for those of a secular bent, they often perceive aliens and anal probes.
I will say I had apocalyptic dreams long before ever being exposed to religious thought. I'd say they were a result of an abusive childhood.
You tell your son about your Crapture dreams, right? Who's surprised your son starts having them himself?
Your Crapture dreams are the result of saturating your life with this garbage. Now you're poisoning your son with them. That's NOT something to be happy about!
People who hate the world rarely do anything to make life better. Way to be passive-aggressive, asshole.
I, and I think many others, were shocked by this, but his reason, he explained, was that children have pretty strong imaginations. If you don't tell them how a friend or family member died, they'll start thinking of ways themselves, and even a little child is surprisingly good at thinking up the most grisly things.
Don't you mean particularly a little child?
I remember reading about the Satanic Ritual Abuse collective hysteria; a perfect example of how wild a kid's imagination can run, when allowed to. (well, in this case it was even actively encouraged to)
and he's leaving your 9 year old little boy here on earth in the middle of nowhere, alone, in a wasteland full of dangerous weather, and you're pleased about it. way to be a great mother.
I know supposedly dreams mean something in the babble, but most of us in the 21st century have moved on from that. The other night, I dreamed all my teeth fell out. You would tell me to call my dentist. BTW, they're all still there. Dreams are bullshit! God does not speak to you or anyone through them!
CAPS LOCK DOESN'T MAKE YOU ANY MORE CONVINCING!!! nEITHER DO THE EXTRA PUNCTUATION MARKS!!!!! AND WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU SO HAPPY TO HAVE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION RAINING DOWN ON EVERYONE, YOU HEARTLESS CUNT??!?!
@Mr. Smith: Oh, dear Science! **retches**
Poor kid. I remember when I was about 9. My parents and church/sunday school would terrify me with all that same shit. I probably could have dreamed the same thing. I spent nearly my whole childhood being told that Jesus was coming any day and that I probably would never have another birthday.
Anyone would have these kind of nightmares if all this shit was constantly pounded into them.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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