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    Thread: reason vs faith vs reality
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(August 3, 2013 at 5:34 pm)whateverist Wrote: What sort of dogs do you have and what do you do with your yard? My signature line shows a bit of my garden and gardens are big part of what interests ...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 August 4, 2013 at 9:08 am
    Thread: reason vs faith vs reality
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(August 2, 2013 at 8:13 pm)Rahul Wrote: (August 2, 2013 at 4:22 pm)wandering soul Wrote: yes, 60 is the new 40. We baby boomers are still revising definitions! ;) I turn 40 next year, what is that...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 August 3, 2013 at 10:06 am
    Thread: reason vs faith vs reality
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(August 1, 2013 at 3:08 pm)whateverist Wrote: Campbell looked for patterns in mythology. Jung looked for the same in dreams. The phenomenology of the mind is endlessly fascinating. (Truth be to...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 August 2, 2013 at 4:22 pm
    Thread: reason vs faith vs reality
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(August 2, 2013 at 9:58 am)wandering soul Wrote: Back in the 1980s I spent a couple of years in intensive dream recording. yes Apophenia, I know, a lot of hooey. except I'm not talking about "dream...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 August 2, 2013 at 2:01 pm
    Thread: reason vs faith vs reality
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(July 29, 2013 at 12:24 am)whateverist Wrote: For instance, having "God" as an inner sounding board probably has no direct correlate. Your greater self, unconscious and conscious mind included, giv...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 August 2, 2013 at 9:58 am
    Thread: reason vs faith vs reality
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(July 26, 2013 at 5:56 pm)Rahul Wrote: (July 26, 2013 at 2:50 pm)wandering soul Wrote: The spiritual dimension has been observed, studied, tested, experimented with and its properties, attributes,...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 July 31, 2013 at 10:06 pm
    Thread: reason vs faith vs reality
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(July 26, 2013 at 5:56 pm)Rahul Wrote: (July 26, 2013 at 2:50 pm)wandering soul Wrote: The spiritual dimension has been observed, studied, tested, experimented with and its properties, attributes,...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 July 28, 2013 at 7:44 pm
    Thread: reason vs faith vs reality
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(July 26, 2013 at 5:50 pm)whateverist Wrote: I just stopped for lunch and read this but I'm having some difficulty processing as it seems so abstract. I think I'll need to think about it some more ...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 July 27, 2013 at 8:49 am
    Thread: reason vs faith vs reality
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OK so what are your thoughts on the original ideas I proposed. That the Christians and the atheists are using similar methods of analysis but applying them to different data sets. Also in their respec...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 July 26, 2013 at 2:50 pm
    Thread: reason vs faith vs reality
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(July 26, 2013 at 11:37 am)whateverist Wrote: Interesting. By contrast, from a similarly young age, I realized that my opinion, worldview, 'reality' -call it what you will- was not coterminous with...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 July 26, 2013 at 1:00 pm
    Thread: reason vs faith vs reality
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(July 26, 2013 at 9:44 am)max-greece Wrote: I would argue that they start with the conclusion first and then work backwards. In most religions that means they start with God or Gods and go from ther...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 July 26, 2013 at 10:40 am
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(July 26, 2013 at 4:26 am)max-greece Wrote: The strange thing is that there are believers in all variants of religion that will claim their belief to be rational and empirically verifiable - with co...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 July 26, 2013 at 9:22 am
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ok guys. I see us all inhabiting both a material universe of many worlds and a mental universe of many worlds. I would love to explore all the worlds of both. I really do see many different realities....
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 July 25, 2013 at 7:10 pm
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OK guys, I haven't abandoned you. Caught in stuff needing to be done then driving back to the city where I work, cat being killed by dogs, new nephew being born, and bad internet connections. Yes all ...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 July 22, 2013 at 10:27 pm
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(July 21, 2013 at 9:38 am)genkaus Wrote: Wrong. Reality is an objectively verifiable entity. The totality of all things having existence is called reality. So plants, rocks water air etc do not ha...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 July 21, 2013 at 10:15 am
    Thread: reason vs faith vs reality
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ok in this ongoing debate there is no resolution when the terms are not defined. Even then there will be no resolution because it is being driven by emotion and survival instincts rather than informed...
wandering soul Christianity 71 25205 July 21, 2013 at 9:02 am
    Thread: Bible-less Christians
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(July 19, 2013 at 12:23 pm)whateverist Wrote: (July 19, 2013 at 11:32 am)wandering soul Wrote: 2. people who use the Bible to send everyone to hell except themselves have their counterparts in eve...
wandering soul Christianity 57 16153 July 20, 2013 at 8:54 am
    Thread: Punished for Babel?
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May I add, that in the opinion of most Christians, the methods by which the stories have come down to us are not a problem as they consider the value of scripture to be it's ability to speak to their ...
wandering soul Christianity 102 23861 July 19, 2013 at 11:59 am
    Thread: Bible-less Christians
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ok so ignoring the GC and response to GC postings and going to the relevant discussion Vicki seems to be giving a reasonable discussion of the better informed Christian perspective. However, I would l...
wandering soul Christianity 57 16153 July 19, 2013 at 11:32 am
    Thread: Punished for Babel?
Post: RE: Punished for Babel?

I apologize that I have not diligently read through each and every post here. But I've checked on the progress of the various ideas. I don't think anyone has brought up the following points. 1. Genesi...
wandering soul Christianity 102 23861 July 19, 2013 at 11:10 am