RE: Atheists, what are the most convincing theist arguments you heard of?
March 14, 2017 at 1:19 am
(March 13, 2017 at 7:28 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I'm sorry you feel the need to invalidate the experiences of others.
No one here is invalidating your experiences.
No one here has to. They come pre-invalidated.
As you yourself said, you can't even coherently express what these experiences were like to be so absolutely convincing, let alone actually establish that they are evidence in favor of the existence of a god rather than you just deluding yourself. Your claim to a personal experience with God is entirely unconvincing, and always will be, and is no more "valid" than someone who claims to have been kidnapped by aliens, or talked to the Buddha while high as a kite on peyote, or someone who claims to have been possessed by a demon.
People "experience" impossible things all the time. They see Bigfoot, or talk to aliens, or see ghosts. My own mother claims to have seen my deceased grandfather coming to visit me in my crib when I was a child. I dismiss that, too. It's nothing personal. It's just that her assertion of weirdness carries absolutely no weight at all, any more than yours does.
You had your experience. Good for you; no one can take that away. But don't expect anyone here to take your statements at face value, or to treat them as anything other than the nonsensical, unverified assertions that they are.
It's not an insult.
It's just the way skepticism works.
"Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it."
- A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
- A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner