(December 25, 2018 at 10:50 pm)Dimmesdale Wrote:Quote:(Grandizer) Show a bit of intellectual humility, will you?
Very well. I think that I am right. I suppose that's once removed from being absolutely right, right? But the thing is, in myself, I know this to be the case. So it's not a matter of pride or humility, but simply of fact. I have the fact at hand.
And I guarantee that you don't have the fact at hand and that you don't really know that God exists. Can you show me I'm wrong?
Quote:Actually I think everyone does, but they suppress it, or it has been suppressed in them.
Well, first demonstrate that you do, and then you can talk about others.
Quote:Quote:Bullshit.
Once one arrives at a certain point in one's conscious development, the obvious becomes obvious again.

Quote:And I am not against evidence. I am all for evidence. But I think all evidence can do is to condition the mind to uncover facts which themselves go beyond evidence, and towards the core of what is real, which is within and self-authenticating.
Facts beyond evidence? How does that even work? You can't have facts without some evidence leading to them.
You're basically just speaking theological gibberish, and thinking you're making a reasonable point when it isn't.
Quote:Quote:It doesn't offend me, but it frustrates me that you think this is a compelling argument that you're making when it just isn't.
It may not seem compelling to you in your illusioned state, but that does not mean it isn't compelling to others who come with a different view to the evidence....
Without evidence, it can't be compelling. At least not if you're trying to be as intellectually honest as possible.
Quote:(btw, I can't get the quote function working properly, you know how to fix it?)
You seem to be doing fine here.