RE: Question?
August 21, 2016 at 4:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2016 at 4:27 pm by Cyberman.)
(August 21, 2016 at 3:55 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:(August 21, 2016 at 3:48 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Everything up to my edit is the only part that makes any sense. Everything following it you have no possible way of knowing. Hence I have no interest in buying.
You are free to form you own paradigm and toss out what the majority of humanity has believed (and explored) since the beginning.
Argumentum ad populum doesn't make your fantasy work. Neither does abdicating your burden of proof.
(August 21, 2016 at 3:55 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: You are free to suffer the consequences of your willful ignorance.
And nor does argumentum ad hominem. Oh, and please knock off with the clichés. We've all heard enough of them to sink a battleship.
(August 21, 2016 at 3:55 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: I have had my own NDE (drowning) where I popped out of body and had the time-space to fully consider leaving or staying. I was more conscious in that state, more aware than while in the body. I don't need you to believe me,
Well, that's handy.
(August 21, 2016 at 3:55 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: but to understand I'm not coming from a position of wishful belief of what I want to be true. I experienced it.
Are you able, with any honesty, to know if this experience you claim is what led to your beliefs, or if it was vice-versa and your beliefs - or at least prior knowledge - coloured your expectation of the experience?
Either way, personal testimony of unsupportable events from a single source of questionable reliability doesn't exactly make for a compelling reason for others to accept it. If that's all you have, we're pretty much done.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'