RE: Evidence for Believing
September 19, 2019 at 8:43 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2019 at 8:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 19, 2019 at 3:26 pm)Objectivist Wrote:Why. Why, bud? Why is the notion of god a wholesale rejection of any truth? I didn't ask you to reassert your beliefs. I asked you to explain them.(September 19, 2019 at 3:05 pm)Lek Wrote: Well, I asked a question and I received many answers. My reasons and evidence are not what you're looking for. I think you're all living in a little box, which you feel secure in, but it won't allow to explore the entirety of existence. I don't have any other evidence that you will accept so okay.
Lek,
A rational person would not expect anyone to accept what you've presented as evidence. Evidence has to be verifiable. If it isn't it's not evidence. You should seriously check your premises and ask yourself if you have any intellectual right to use the concepts reason and evidence. Or truth. What fundamental premises do these ideas rest on and what does your own philosophy's position on these fundamentals amount to? Is there a conflict? You seem to want to lash out at us for not accepting your "evidence" as if the problem is with us and not what you've presented. But that is just a rationalization.
(September 19, 2019 at 2:33 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Why is it a stolen concept?Because the concept "evidence" rests logically on the axioms of existence, consciousness and identity and their corollary the primacy of existence. The notion of a God is a wholesale rejection of these truths. It's like standing on the 6th floor of a building while demolishing the foundation and expecting the sixth floor to remain standing apart from its foundation. It can't be done.
To put more meat on their bones, so that others could understand what you mean, and mean to say.
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