(October 15, 2015 at 5:55 pm)jenny1972 Wrote:(October 15, 2015 at 5:44 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: How do you know the thoughts you are hearing aren't just your own subconscious?
I mean, just for a change, throw a bit of critical thinking at it.
What is more likely, you are misinterpreting your own subconscious as the voice of a god? By the way, the human subconscious is proved to exist.
Or...
The creator of the universe (An entity that is not supported by evidence), is telepathically putting thoughts in to your mind?
because they are very different than my own thoughts and my mind , the origin of my own thoughts , recognizes them as being not from me
That is how thoughts from the subconscious are described by neuroscientists.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
