(November 16, 2015 at 9:58 am)Krishna Jaganath Wrote: [...]
You've hit the essence of the argument. In reality everything does come down to personal experience, if one has not had a direct personal experience than for sure they would not and should not believe.
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Nope. I have never had a personal experience of nuclear fusion, or the Battle of Stalingrad, but I know those things to be factual. That's because of evidence.
Personal experiences may be fun, but they prove nothing and are easily manipulated by charlatans and our own over-active, self-serving imaginations.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
