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[Serious] If I met Him...
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RE: If I met Him...
(January 3, 2021 at 6:54 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I've concluded in the past year that there can be no positive evidence of God, not even hypothetically.  So any belief would have to be rooted in unreason.  But I also believe that unreason is at the root of the human experience.  Life begins with irrationality, and reason is an after-thought at best.  So, I guess it would depend upon what I was presented with.  I suspect that forming an adequate judgment of any being that I might accept as God is beyond my paygrade.  Which presents additional problems.  As many of the great theologians have argued, any knowledge we have of God is mere shadow, analogy, an assemblage of what he is not in a brain not equipped to wrap itself around even the idea of God.  So I could probably go either way.  Any belief, though, would probably be strongly limited, and possibly short-lived.

Jor/Angrboda, who or what do you suggest people could trust to guide them between the apparently insurmountable cliffs of paradox on one side and the devouring abyss of absurdity on the other? Given the human condition you rightly describe, I see no shame in cautiously calling on all sense-making tools with humble recongnition that each is, to greater or lesser degree, flawed.
<insert profound quote here>
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If I met Him... - by zwanzig - January 3, 2021 at 11:44 am
RE: If I met Him... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 3, 2021 at 12:09 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by arewethereyet - January 3, 2021 at 12:39 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by purplepurpose - January 3, 2021 at 12:48 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by RozzerusUnrelentus - January 3, 2021 at 1:08 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by zwanzig - January 3, 2021 at 1:36 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by brewer - January 3, 2021 at 1:59 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by Rhizomorph13 - January 3, 2021 at 2:08 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by The Valkyrie - January 3, 2021 at 2:12 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by ignoramus - January 3, 2021 at 5:45 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by Angrboda - January 3, 2021 at 6:54 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by Neo-Scholastic - January 5, 2021 at 6:32 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by RozzerusUnrelentus - January 6, 2021 at 9:48 am
RE: If I met Him... - by Angrboda - January 7, 2021 at 2:59 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by John 6IX Breezy - January 3, 2021 at 11:10 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by rado84 - January 4, 2021 at 5:48 am
RE: If I met Him... - by The Grand Nudger - January 4, 2021 at 7:39 am
RE: If I met Him... - by Rahn127 - January 5, 2021 at 7:34 am
RE: If I met Him... - by The Architect Of Fate - January 5, 2021 at 6:56 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by Paleophyte - January 6, 2021 at 12:00 am
RE: If I met Him... - by Peebo-Thuhlu - January 6, 2021 at 4:23 am
RE: If I met Him... - by no one - January 7, 2021 at 12:19 am
RE: If I met Him... - by Nay_Sayer - January 7, 2021 at 3:25 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by zwanzig - January 10, 2021 at 12:02 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by John 6IX Breezy - January 10, 2021 at 7:24 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by The Grand Nudger - January 10, 2021 at 7:50 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by John 6IX Breezy - January 10, 2021 at 8:15 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by R00tKiT - January 10, 2021 at 8:22 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by The Grand Nudger - January 10, 2021 at 10:22 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by John 6IX Breezy - January 10, 2021 at 11:09 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by The Grand Nudger - January 11, 2021 at 3:06 am
RE: If I met Him... - by John 6IX Breezy - January 11, 2021 at 3:25 am
RE: If I met Him... - by Rhizomorph13 - January 11, 2021 at 11:14 am
RE: If I met Him... - by The Grand Nudger - January 11, 2021 at 12:19 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by John 6IX Breezy - January 11, 2021 at 12:24 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by The Grand Nudger - January 11, 2021 at 12:25 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by John 6IX Breezy - January 11, 2021 at 12:34 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by The Grand Nudger - January 11, 2021 at 12:40 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by John 6IX Breezy - January 11, 2021 at 1:47 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by The Grand Nudger - January 11, 2021 at 2:11 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by John 6IX Breezy - January 11, 2021 at 2:49 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by zwanzig - January 12, 2021 at 10:01 am
RE: If I met Him... - by John 6IX Breezy - January 12, 2021 at 1:16 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by R00tKiT - January 13, 2021 at 3:00 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by HappySkeptic - January 13, 2021 at 3:24 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by Angrboda - January 12, 2021 at 11:19 am
RE: If I met Him... - by zwanzig - January 12, 2021 at 11:51 am
RE: If I met Him... - by The Grand Nudger - January 12, 2021 at 11:56 am
RE: If I met Him... - by zwanzig - January 12, 2021 at 12:26 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by The Grand Nudger - January 12, 2021 at 12:33 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by zwanzig - January 13, 2021 at 1:01 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by John 6IX Breezy - January 13, 2021 at 4:41 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by The Grand Nudger - January 13, 2021 at 5:40 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by John 6IX Breezy - January 13, 2021 at 6:28 pm
RE: If I met Him... - by The Grand Nudger - January 13, 2021 at 6:45 pm

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