(August 21, 2016 at 4:45 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: I celebrate the burden of proof. I have laid out a fair amount of evidence for what I claim in several other threads and there is much more where that came from. I do not need the corroboration of multiple creation stories from multiple cultures across time to support what I have found by pure geometry. But it's nice to notice consistent and repeated trends.
Ignorance is the act of ignoring something, the act speaks for itself. If you take that as a personal insult, oh well. It's no more an ad hominem than warning some one if they ignore the cliff they are walking toward and disbelieve gravity...they will suffer the consequence of their ignore-ance.
That experience shattered many of my previous beliefs....especially about myself. I got to experience Self without the filter of my birth personality, locked up in the specific paths my neurons have fired and wired for over my life time. It was like my life was the dream, and I was actually awake for the first time in a very long time. I was no longer occluded by anything I had collected or created in the body. There was a bit more to the experience, but that was the core.
Nope, not ignoring anything. Simply not convinced. It's revealing that you seem to need me painted as the irrational one in this scenario. If what you want to present as evidence isn't exactly being lapped up with crusty bread, it may not be your audience at fault. Consider getting more subsatantial evidence.
Incidentally, an ad hominem isn't synonymous with insult - it's the fallacy of deriding one's opponent's character to dismiss their opinion.
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.'
