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Question about meaning and perception of reality from a theist.
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RE: Question about meaning and perception of reality from a theist.
(January 6, 2012 at 2:53 pm)amkerman Wrote: Here I'll set up the argument again and someone can try to knock it down, again.

All of reality is experienced through consciousness.

THEREFORE: If you believe in reality you must believe consciousness is real.

Eh, wrong. Killed it right there. No one must believe anything. You are operating under a heap of delusions.

1. That because you think it, other people must.
2. Experience=reality.
3. That reality requires anything as silly as a belief in it.
4. That's what real is not real unless you are experiencing it.

I know lifetime psychedelic drug users who would laugh at the absurdity of your assertions. You are jumping to "therefore" without every explaining why.

Yes, we experience reality through consciousness. That's as far as you got. It all fell apart on its own. No one has to knock it down. It is your delusion.

Perhaps, go "be the toaster" or something.

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RE: Question about meaning and perception of reality from a theist. - by Shell B - January 6, 2012 at 3:00 pm

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