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The Million Dollar Question
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RE: The Million Dollar Question
(May 8, 2014 at 5:03 pm)lordofgemini Wrote: I didn't even mention subjective experience ever.

You didn't mention it but I did for a particular reason. People have subjective experiences and then interpret them in different ways. I happen to have the kind of brain which produces odd, subjective experiences. If I believed that the things I experience are real I'd be worshipping the planet as a goddess along with the Greek god, Apollo. I'd also believe that some kind of female spirit inhabits a moorland pond in Wales. If I told you this female spirit exists because I saw her, would you take my word for it and believe in her existence?

(May 8, 2014 at 5:03 pm)lordofgemini Wrote: You don't understand what is God.

And you do? How can you claim to understand something which is -

Quote:.... the incomprehensible, unapproachable radiant being whom the ordinary senses and ordinary intellect cannot fathom grasp or able to describe even with partial success. He is the mysterious Being totally out of the reach of all sensory activity, rationale effort and mere intellectual, decorative and pompous endeavor.

A bit further on in that article about Brahman there's -

Quote:Though impassioned and above the ordinary feelings of the mind, the masters of the Upanishads some times could not suppress the glory, the emotion, the passion and the poetry that accompanied the vast and utterly delightful , inner experience of His vast vision.

Which brings us back to subjective experiences.

(May 8, 2014 at 5:03 pm)lordofgemini Wrote: Forget about all religions for a moment. Then think with a free mind.

I am thinking with a free mind. I'm waiting for evidence that a God who can only be experienced and not understood with the intellect actually exists.

If physicists like Amit Goswami can prove that God really does have something to do with quantum physics I'll accept it. And so will other atheists who are waiting for evidence.

Quote:In God is Not Dead, Goswami demonstrated that not only are science and religion compatible, but that quantum physics proves the existence of God.
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