A comment by @Mark C inspired me to make this post. 
He'd mentioned someone potentially afflicted by demons and I've had thoughts along those lines in the past.
A little background is one of my weirdnesses is I can see polarized light. Other people see it too and some people can see it or perceive it when they wear certain types of sunglasses. In any case when I was little I'd describe the things I'd see and people would react as if I was crazy because they couldn't see what I could see. Like to my eye some types of black colored birds are actually very colorful in person but they're black in photographs or video. Lots of steel and cast iron and different rocks are also colorful to me but not to most people.
It doesn't mean I'm crazy it just means I see things most people can't see.
Now what about people who say they hear voices?
Yes, it's easy to dismiss them as crazy and that's what most people do is to dismiss them as crazy. Perhaps these people act crazy.
A little segue here...
It is a well known form of torture to put someone in a prison cell and then to play the same song over and over for days and weeks on end. But the real torture begins when the song is shut off and then it persists in the person's mind as an earworm. It causes them to go crazy.
Likewise people who suffer from tinnitus might be emotionally and psychologically damaged from the persistent high pitched sound.
Now if you tell other people that you hear Let It Go (the song from Frozen) all day long no one will think you're crazy even though they don't hear it themselves.
But what if you tell them you keep hearing a voice that tells you to do something bad? Or that you hear a legion of voices saying things to you all day long?
You'll be called crazy.
But what if the voices are real? I'm not saying that everyone who says they hear voices really hears these voices...but what if they are hearing voices?
Imagine hearing a stadium full of voices in your head all the time and every day? That might cause you to become a bit unstable.
So I consider that people who hear voices might not be crazy just because they say they hear voices. They might be getting driven to insanity because they really do hear these voices. Quite possibly the voices of demons or spirits.
Just because we do not hear these things ourselves is not proof that the person telling us about it isn't perceiving something the majority of people can't perceive.
After all, that earworm of Idina Menzel haunting you late at night is real, isn't it? Even though no one else hears it.
Just something to think about the next time you see someone who might be considered 'crazy'.
Maybe they need your prayers.
He'd mentioned someone potentially afflicted by demons and I've had thoughts along those lines in the past.
A little background is one of my weirdnesses is I can see polarized light. Other people see it too and some people can see it or perceive it when they wear certain types of sunglasses. In any case when I was little I'd describe the things I'd see and people would react as if I was crazy because they couldn't see what I could see. Like to my eye some types of black colored birds are actually very colorful in person but they're black in photographs or video. Lots of steel and cast iron and different rocks are also colorful to me but not to most people.
It doesn't mean I'm crazy it just means I see things most people can't see.
Now what about people who say they hear voices?
Yes, it's easy to dismiss them as crazy and that's what most people do is to dismiss them as crazy. Perhaps these people act crazy.
A little segue here...
It is a well known form of torture to put someone in a prison cell and then to play the same song over and over for days and weeks on end. But the real torture begins when the song is shut off and then it persists in the person's mind as an earworm. It causes them to go crazy.
Likewise people who suffer from tinnitus might be emotionally and psychologically damaged from the persistent high pitched sound.
Now if you tell other people that you hear Let It Go (the song from Frozen) all day long no one will think you're crazy even though they don't hear it themselves.
But what if you tell them you keep hearing a voice that tells you to do something bad? Or that you hear a legion of voices saying things to you all day long?
You'll be called crazy.
But what if the voices are real? I'm not saying that everyone who says they hear voices really hears these voices...but what if they are hearing voices?
Imagine hearing a stadium full of voices in your head all the time and every day? That might cause you to become a bit unstable.
So I consider that people who hear voices might not be crazy just because they say they hear voices. They might be getting driven to insanity because they really do hear these voices. Quite possibly the voices of demons or spirits.
Just because we do not hear these things ourselves is not proof that the person telling us about it isn't perceiving something the majority of people can't perceive.
After all, that earworm of Idina Menzel haunting you late at night is real, isn't it? Even though no one else hears it.
Just something to think about the next time you see someone who might be considered 'crazy'.
Maybe they need your prayers.
