(March 25, 2023 at 3:29 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: an opinion is a bare assertion unless there is obvious good reason for the opinion, and more subtly but more importantly for the purpose of the credibility of the holder of the opinion, there is evidence that the holder of the opinion is willing and capable of changing his opinion when confronted with reasonable evidence of the inadequacy of the opinion.
A person who believes out of faith is not a thinking person offering an opinion but a mindless phonograph playing back nonsensical recording.
But he told us why he believes the Bible is true.
many years back I had a visionary experience concerning the Scriptures...it's very difficult to put into words. For me the Scriptures felt alive somehow...like directly confronting the Otherness. And I think the supernatural context of the ancient Middle East lends to its depth and strangeness.
I have heard this kind of thing from a bunch of christians (stuff about having feelings).
A lot of mormons say the same kind of thing. That’s the evidence for them that their religion is true.
I don’t know if the above is called blind faith.
Maybe they are assuming that the jewish god is the one that is activating emotions in them. Is that the blind part?
Neo-Scholastic, is that what you believe?
And is it something that happens to you every time you think about scripture?
Personally, I would not choose that that god and religion is true bc of feelings I am having. I think Anomalocaris is like that as well.
For example, if I feel like eating at McDonald’s, I am not going to claim that god is real because he is activating hunger emotions in me.
There are all sorts of possibilities:
1. It is possible that the hamburgers at McDonald’s are connecting to my brain and they want me to eat them.
2. It could be that there are aliens that are not from this space and they are outside time, and they are sitting right next to the jewish god and they are activating circuits in my brain as part of an experiment and later, they want to take me to heaven, which is their homeland.
3. It could be that there are things doing on in my brain that I am not actively conscious of and they are making decisions for me.
4. ...and you can go on making up other possibilities.
I remember watching a documentary about India. There was a 10 y old kid saying that he was reincarnated and that he remembers who is wife was and he remembers being shot in the head and there is also a scar on his forehead and he says it is at the same location as where the man was shot. The wife of the dead husband was amazed and said that the things the 10 y old is saying is true.
