(November 1, 2016 at 2:52 pm)amygdala Wrote: Hey all and welcome,
I ran into a presuppositionilist this week.
After a bit of back and forth with him going on about how I have to use reason to justify my beliefs I got hit with this question "How do you know that you are not a brain in a vat?"
This stumped me for a few moments, then I said to him "If I am a brain in a vat then why should I believe anything you say?, why should I believe you when you tell me that some book called the bible actually exists?".
I just went on asking him for proof that he was real, God was real and the bible was real and all not just a figment of my imagination.
He started to appeal to my reason that he and the God of the bible did exist which I thought it was quite funny.
I'm sure he could have countered my clumsy response in some way but it did feel good.
How do I know I am not a brain in a vat? My college education leaves me at moments like this and my pragmatic , blue collar Yankee forebearers speak through me when I answer " Because I am not a dumbass with too much time on my hands!". Some questions are just to stupid too waste a moment of life on. (As I type this I realize how much time I have wasted answering LilRik and GodsChild)
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
