(October 3, 2013 at 7:48 am)Rational AKD Wrote: true, and that's where solipsism comes from. but putting that epistemological belief aside, it is important to be aware of certain filters concerning your perception. that's why it's always good to cross examine claims with other people. other people may perceive something you didn't that can shape your conclusions.
True enough, but with a caveat: you must make an effort to determine the NATURE of those other people's perceptions, and especially how they arrive at their interpretations of them.
So you can talk to respected, clever people, and have them talk about their experiences with God. But that's an interpretation: the reality is that they have feelings. They may even see a glowing human shape, or hear a voice that seems to come from the sky. You can take their experience at face value, unless you think they're lying. But their interpretation, "I saw a glowing human, therefore angels, therefore Bible, therefore God," then there's a problem.
