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To: NYer
This was the only thing that bothered me about it:

Pytel dropped to the floor, conscious, but unable to move a muscle for fifteen minutes

It sounds like more charismatic shenanigans to me. Only that part.

I read up on these sorts of things for years, trying to find indicators to distinguish the true from the false. Can't say that I ever got it figured out. I read what those cured from Lourdes described. I think only one said anything about a "feeling of electricity". Most felt "cold". Don't remember anyone being temporarily "knocked out".

My interest in learning to discern came about as a result of the alleged cures at Medjugorje. To my knowledge, no one has received a lasting, documented cure there, although I would be willing to concede that sometimes God grants favors through the false if one's heart is right to lead them into truth. Still, the proof is in the pudding, so to speak, and if he has received a lasting cure, it is a genuine miracle imo (evidently the church thought so, too).

4 posted on 09/03/2002 12:46:01 PM PDT by Aliska
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