(June 20, 2011 at 11:08 pm)Epimethean Wrote: No, Nick, that isn't how it would work. You continue to conflate supernatural mumbo-jumbo with reality. They do not mix. A peyote trip with Carlos Casteneda doesn't mean you actually contacted the egg-beings lording over the energy circuits above the ether.
There is a reason pizzas and amatory females are popular with men: They exist.
Your soul angst won't serve you well amongst pragmatics.
Quite true. Pragmatics is concerned with subjectivity while the soul is attracted to objective truth. It seems that positive atheism refuses to appreciate this distinction even theoretically.
Simone Weil has observed: "There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God."
- William Robert Miller (ed.), The New Christianity (New York: Delacorte Press 1967) p 267; in Paul Schilling,
God in an age of atheism (Abingdon: Nashville 1969) p 17
This is very true. One is a product of an open mind and the other, a product of a closed mind in blind denial. One is a pleasure to dialogue with and the other is the same as a religious literal fundamentalist
